Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I ha… - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was an American poet, non-fiction writer, short story writer, novelist, lecturer, and social reformer.

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Alternative Names: Charlotte Perkins Stetson • Charlotte Perkins • Charlotte P. Gilman • Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman

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This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.

You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.

There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.

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