I turn your attention to the American Yawp Reader, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1913)." have at leasttwocitations from the textbook, reader, and/or the lecture slides. Please read the selection and address the following prompts:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from what conditions during the 1880s and 1890s?

How were other Victorian women feeling at this time and why were they feeling this way?

What was going on socially, economically, and politically in American society that may have influenced or contributed to Gilman's struggles?

What do you make of her physician's advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as she lived? Given what we've learned in class, how do we contextualize his advice to her?