Rewriting "Yellow Wallpaper"Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were among the most notable champions of working women's rights during the 19th century. Both professed a deep and personal faith and both were wise and self-confident enough to develop their own ideas and relationship with their creator. In 1895, Stanton published The Woman's Bible, her personal attack on the hold of organized religion on the women of the world. Gilman published her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” in 1892. She wrote the story, she said, “to keep people from going crazy” (Golden 52). The heroine of “The Yellow Wallpaper” discovers that her only escape from the oppression of a condescending spouse is a dizzying fall into madness. Stanton and Gilman met at least once, around 1896, according to Gilman's autobiography. “Of the many people I met over the years, I was particularly impressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. To have been with her...seemed to establish a connection with a splendid period of true heroism” (Gilman 216). Perhaps if the philosophies of these two great women came together, at the perfect time, they would possess the potential to save the heroine of “Yellow Wallpaper.” The following scenario might turn out to be feasible.----------An obstacleCharlotte Perkins Gilman lI was climbing a mountain path with many things to do, matters important to me, and those of others too, when I encountered a PrejudiceIt completely cut off my vision.----------The Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins GilmanAmended, with apologies, by Margaret A. Stanton--------- ------The heroine of "The Yellow Wallpaper" ...... middle of paper ...... Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, writings, speeches. Schocken Books, NY: 1981. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison: 1990. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, "The Yellow Wallpaper" The Heath Anthology of American Literature, second edition. General Ed. Paul Lauter. DC Heath and Co., Lexington, MA: 1994. Golden, Catherine, ed. The imagination captivates: a casebook on yellow wallpaper. The Feminist Press of the City University of New York: 1992. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible. European pub in New York. Co.: 1895-98. Northeastern UP, Boston: 1993.Note1 The poem “An Obstacle” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is used as an epigraph by Catherine Golden, ed. Captivating the Imagination: A Casebook on Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press: NY City UP, 1992) vii.