Some of the best books by women for International Women's Day
Acquaint yourself with these female writers, and you'll make a friend for life in their books
'The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.'
The Yellow Wallpaper: a small slip of a book (just 6,000 words) that has a devastating impact. This novella tells the story of a woman confined to her bed after childbirth. Locked in her attic room she starts to see shapes in the wallpaper –and madness descends.
What is now seen as a semi-autobiographical tale of post-partum psychosis still remains enigmatic, frightening on every reading.
Part of its significance is just how early it was written: 1892. Gilman went on to write the utopian Feminist work Herland.
