NMLP P-036232 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

The Yellow Wall Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (credited as Charlotte Perkins Stetson) · Small, Maynard & Company (Boston) · 1899

The story's true first appearance in any form is the New England Magazine periodical printing of January 1892; the Small, Maynard volume of June 1899 is the first separate BOOK edition, which is what is generally meant by "first edition" for this title.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036232 for "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (credited as Charlotte Perkins Stetson) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036232, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).