The choices we impose on our living spaces are at once personal and inescapably social, a jumble of instinct and cultural expectation so complex that for most of us they play out beneath the radar of conscious thought. Review of Lives of Houses, edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee.
"The Equivocal Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" →
A brief excerpt from my introduction to the new Penguin Classics edition of The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.