The Natural Mother and the Fear of Motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

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An exploration of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” through the lenses of Maternal Feminism, Darwinism, mental illness, and the trope of the Natural Mother in the later Victorian and modern periods. This paper seeks to examine a lingering question about this story: What about the baby?