It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was a nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and t

And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression [...] My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing,an

There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seem to notice but myself, and that is that it changes as the light changes […] At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all moonlight, it becomes bar

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The woman is being held in a nursery and living in a mansion that is isolated and away from the rest of society

Expression: The act of writing, the narrator has

forbidden to do, but its what she needs to feel better suggests