Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories

Erin 

The Yellow Wallpaper: 4.5 stars - I really loved this one. This is off to a great start.
An Extinct Angel: 4 stars - Well that's an allegory if I ever saw one.
A Day's Berryin': 3.5 stars
An Unnatural Mother: 3.5 stars
According to Solomon: 4 stars
Her Housekeeper: 4 stars
Three Thanksgivings: 5 stars
The Cottagette: 3.5 stars
When I Was A Witch: 4.5 stars
An Offender: 3 stars
The Boys and the Butter: 4 stars
A Coincidence: 4 stars
Making A Living: 3 stars
Martha's Mother: 4 stars
A Middle-Sized Artist: 4 stars
A Word in Season: 4 stars
In Two Houses: 3 stars
Making a Change: 3 stars
The Jumping-Off Place: 4 stars
The Widow's Might: 4.5 stars
Turned: 4 stars
A Council of War: 4.5 stars
A Partnership: 3 stars
Fulfillment: 4.5 stars
Mr. Peebles' Heart: 2.5 stars
If I Were A Man: 4.5 stars - The pockets are so relatable!! A bit disappointing that this has not changed.
Girls & Land: 5 stars - This is one of several stories in this collection about women making their own way and money in the world against everyone's expectations and I'm here for it.
Dr. Clair's Place: 4 stars
Mrs. Merrill's Duties: 3.5 stars
The Girl in the Pink Hat: 4 stars
A Surplus Woman: 5 stars
Joan's Defender: 4 stars

This is overall maybe my favourite short story collection that I've read so far this year. Every story was so impossibly good, it was difficult to give them a rating at all. I think the lowest rating I gave was 2.5 stars, and I was just being picky. I've never read a short story collection that I've loved so whole-heartedly. For an author I had never even heard of before, I am astounded. I will definitely read this again someday. The average of these stories is 4 stars, but I'd go as far to give it 4.5. I'm just so pleased.

Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories

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