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4 unusual facts about The Yellow Wallpaper


Rubber Man

After many poltergeists, Vivien becomes unnerved and Moira, who opposes Hayden, tells her about “The Yellow Wallpaper” and that the house is haunted, urging her to leave while she still can.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Anglican Archbishop Peter Carnley used the story as a reference and a metaphor for the situation of women in the church in his sermon at the ordination of the first women priests in Australia on 7 March 1992 in St George's Cathedral, Perth.

The song "Yellow Creep Around", on the Mary's Danish album Circa, was published one century after the original.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in her book Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper", concludes that "the story was a cri de coeur against Gilman's first husband, artist Charles Walter Stetson and the traditional marriage he had demanded."


Peter Carnley

His sermon on the occasion took as its reference an autobiographical piece by Charlotte Perkins Gilman entitled The Yellow Wallpaper.


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