What Diantha Did and The Yellow Wallpaper

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This volume contains the classic novel What Diantha Did, as well Gilman's most famous work, the short story The Yellow Wallpaper. What Diantha Did tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fianc? to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women's "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.Although it was not the first or longest of her works, without question Gilman's most famous piece is her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which became a best-seller of the Feminist Press.The story is about a woman who suffers from mental illness after three months of being closeted in a room by her husband for the sake of her health.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499619766
• ISBN13: 9781499619768
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"