Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-PaperIn Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to explore the nature of 19th century nervous illness and to illuminate the making of Gilman's famous short story, The Yellow Wall Paper: Gilman's journals and letters, which