Golden, Catherine. '"Overwriting' the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women," in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 144-58.
Golden examines the relationships between Mitchell's rest cure, Gilman' s fiction and nineteenth-century women.
Hedges, Elaine R. "Out at Last?: 'The Yellow Wallpaper' after Two Decades of Feminist Criticism," in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 222-33.
Hedges provides an overview of feminist criticism of "The Yellow Wallpaper" Since the story's rediscovery in the 1970s.
Jacobus, Mary. "An Unnecessary Maze of Sign-Readings," in Reading Woman' Essays in Feminist Criticism, Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 229-48.
Jacobus discusses the validity of Freudian and feminist readings of the story.
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