“The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, book The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

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American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and … 1860–1935

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“The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”

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