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Charlotte's Web.(The Crux)(Book Review)
From: The Nation
Date: 20030804
Author:Gornick, Vivian
The Crux. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Introduction by Dana Seitler. Duke. 171 pp. $16.95.
In 1890 the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a remarkable short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a woman--genteel, educated, with more than a casual taste for intellectual life--who is suffering from an indefinable malady, a nervous complaint. Her husband, a kind, intelligent doctor, has brought her to a beautiful country house for three months of the complete rest he knows will lead to recovery. The room to which he guides our narrator is a third-floor nursery with ...
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