/lit/ - Literature

Listen to this, Anonymous, I'll read it to you:
>Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an accomplished feminist short story writer best known for "The Yellow Wallpaper". Among her numerous short stories is "The Giant Wistaria", written in 1891 and published in New England Magazine. In one of the more gothic tales in the collection, a wealthy young couple and their friends rent a rustic manor excited by the prospect of it being haunted. Gilman's work is known for its feminist themes such as female entrapment and patriarchal control as well as featuring women at the centre of her stories. The history of the flowery house is discovered to be filled with scandal, shame and tragedy which is revealed to the guests as they all experience the same vivid dream.
>Gilman adds her own unique stamp onto the genre by implementing distinctly feminist and gothic themes such as patriarchal control and uses the domestic setting of the house for her tale. Temporality is also a key theme within the story as the narrative moves from centuries past to the present day where Gilman effectively juxtaposes past tragedy with modern frivolousness.
Ignoring that this reads like the editor is a high school student tasked with writing an introduction to a story they don't care about, and ignoring that it gives way too much away about a short horror story, only because the introductions to prior stories have been far worse for this, why does everything have to be about women? I'm trying to read an anthology of Victorians writing about SPOOKY FUCKING PLANTS
FUCK OFF WOMEN