1892
Story
The Yellow Wallpaper
Written in 1892. Still recognisable. A woman is prescribed rest and isolation by her physician husband. She is not permitted to write. She finds something in the wallpaper.
Other Voices
Writing by other people that belongs here.
1894
Story
The Story of an Hour
A woman is told her husband has died. What follows is one of the most precise accounts of what freedom feels like when it arrives without warning.
1791
Poem
Ae Fond Kiss
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, / Had we never lov'd sae blindly, / Never met—or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted.