We are delighted to announce that lecturer Michael King will be exploring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal, sardonic and slyly humourous work The Yellow Wall-Paper.

Tea and coffee with be provide throughout the event.

To book your place, please click here.

About the book:

The writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began.

Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote ‘Herland’, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for 2,000 years.

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards the mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction.