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173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

The History of Literature

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The Atrocious Nursery

"I never saw a worse paper in my life. It was nursery first and then playground and gymnasium, I should judge," she writes. "The color is repellent, almost revolting, a smoldering, unclean yellow." She adds: "It does weigh on me so not to do my duty in any way"

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