The article, “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman first appeared in the October 1913 issue of The Forerunner.

The Forerunner was a monthly magazine that Charlotte Perkins Gilman started in November 1909 that she would write and edit for the next seven years. The mission of the Forerunner was to “stimulate thought; to arouse hope, courage and impatience,” and “express ideas which need a special medium.” Which is one of the main reasons why “The Yellow Wallpaper” appeared in the magazine; to really make people think about the roles in society. The Yellow Wallpaper was her way of bringing women’s oppression to light by using medicine. In Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper she says her goal in writing the short story was to prevent other people from going crazy. But what I think she really meant was to keep people from going crazy under oppressive restrictions. She wanted to change this oppressive mindset whether it was in medicine or family roles.

via Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper”.