Among the literary works recovered a generation ago, in the widespread cultural feminist movement that fostered the reemergence of women's voices in society, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is undoubtedly prominent. In republishing the story, the agents of the Feminist Press, most notably the late Elaine R. Hedges in her famous afterword, foregrounded the aspect that concerned them most: its sexual politics. Gilman's story quickly evolved from a relatively obscure and subversive magazine piece of the late nineteenth century to a formative feminist classic, as college anthologies further disseminated both the text and the definitive interpretation attached to the work by the Feminist Press. In this way, a particular "Yellow Wall-Paper" has for some thirty years been on public display.

Yet even as "The Yellow Wall-Paper" has been reproduced over and over, the text itself has not always been the same. Two dozen printings already existed before the Feminist Press......

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Title: Yellow Wallpaper
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