Sequoia Book Publishers
Madwomen: Stories from the Age of Hysteria (Annotated)
Curated AnthologyAnnotatedThey were called hysterical, unstable, unnatural, and mad. They were never truly mad — they were unheard. Madwomen is a dark, beautifully annotated literary anthology of women trapped inside marriages, bedrooms, sickrooms, asylums, grief, poverty, racial violence, and social silence — and what they did anyway. Collected here are unforgettable works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Susan Glaspell, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Zitkala-Ša, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Emily Dickinson, alongside stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant reread through the lens of what the women inside them actually experienced. This Sequoia annotated edition includes a powerful original introduction by Eleanor Voss, story-by-story headnotes in her distinctive voice, a curated four-act structure, and a dual-track annotation system contrasting how these women were once diagnosed with what contemporary psychology recognizes now. This is not a neutral anthology. It is a recovery.
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