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An excerpt from The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

An excerpt from The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Citation Information: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, excerpt from “The yellow wall paper,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/fa33193f17037d010f3f25c619eac45d.

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An excerpt from The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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The cover to the book College Girls (1895), written by Abbe Carter Goodloe, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.

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