“All eight stories feature women on the verge of becoming ‘madwomen in the attic,’ challenging genre archetypes and traditional notions of femininity with inspiration from fairy tales, fables, eroticism, urban legend and queer theory.”
–Shana E. Hadi, The Stanford Daily
“So deeply indebted to [Shirley] Jackson that you can practically hear the windows of her Hill House rattle…”
–Nicole Flattery, The White Review
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published 1892
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, published 1928
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