Gilman's 1913 essay
"It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked." Gilman claims the story changed Mitchell's practice.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gilman's 1913 essay explains the story as a direct response to her own near-destruction by Weir Mitchell's rest cure, intended as a warning rather than horror fiction.
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