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"The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Joseph Henry Hatfield's original magazine illustrations.(Essays)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20050322
Author:Golden, Catherine

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's landmark tale of a woman undergoing a rest cure for a postpartum depression was first published in the January 1892 issue of New England Magazine with three black-and-white illustrations by a staff illustrator named Jo. H. Hatfield. When preparing a casebook on "The Yellow Wall-Paper" in the early 1990s, I accidentally discovered the illustrations while researching whether the story first appeared in the January or May 1892 issue of NEM, as critics have variously noted. To compound the confusion, Gilman suggests in her autobiography that the publication ...

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