When Gilman finished writing her masterpiece “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she sent the short story out to multiple publishers hoping for it to be printed. One of her major issues with trying to get her story reproduced was that critics simply did not want to publish such an appalling story. Every publisher she sent it too declined. Horace Scudder, the editor at the time for the Atlantic Monthly, wrote to her in a note saying that he would never forgive himself if he subjected others to the misery that he endured while reading her story. No publisher wanted their readers to read such an upsetting story. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was originally published as a short story in the January 1892 issue of New England Magazine.
After its initial release, the
After its initial release, the