The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman is confined to an upstairs room for a rest cure and begins to see something moving in the wallpaper. Gilman wrote it from experience, and it works as a ghost story and as an indictment of a marriage at the same time.
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