The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Feeling stressed? Relax tonight with The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a short story to help you fall asleep. Published in 1892, it is considered an early piece of American feminist literature. The narrator and her husband rent an ancestral home for three months so she can relax and recover from her "nervous" condition. But the yellow wallpaper in their bedroom starts to trouble her...
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you |
| 0:17.1 | an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep. |
| 0:34.1 | Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story. |
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| 1:09.5 | Do, do, do, do, bumper. |
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| 1:52.3 | Tonight, I will be reading the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. |
| 2:00.9 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 2:11.3 | It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like Joan and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. |
| 2:20.9 | A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity, |
| 2:28.8 | but that would be asking too much of fate. Still, I will proudly declare that there is something strange about it. Else, why should it be led so cheaply, and why have stood so long untenanted? |
| 2:39.4 | John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. |
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