Rewriting "The Yellow Wallpaper" Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman rank as two of the most outstanding champions of women's rights active during the nineteenth century. Both professed a deep and personal faith and both were wise and confident enough to develop their own ideas and relationship with their creator. In 1895 Stanton published The Woman's Bible, her personal attack on organized religion's stranglehold on the women of the world. Gilman published his short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892. He wrote the story, he said, "to save people from going mad" (Golden 52). The heroine of "The Yellow Wallpaper" believes that her only escape from the oppression of a condescending spouse is a headlong descent into madness. Stanton and Gilman met at least once, around 1896 according to Gilman's autobiography. "Among the many people I have met over the years I was particularly struck by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Having been with her...seemed to make a connection with a splendid period of true heroism" (Gilman 216). Perhaps if the philosophies of these two great women came together, at the perfect time, they would have the potential to save the heroine of "The Yellow Wallpaper." The following scenario may prove feasible.----------An ObstacleCharlotte Perkins Gilman I was climbing a mountain pathWith many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I came across a PrejudiceThis made me completely prevented one from seeing.----------The Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilmannamed, with apologies, by Margaret A. Stanton----------The heroine of "The Yellow Wallpaper " ...... middle of paper ...... Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Susan B. Anthony: correspondence, writings, speeches. Schocken Books, NY: 1981. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison: 1990. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, "The Yellow Wallpaper" The Heath Anthology of American Literature, second edition. Gen. Ed. Paolo Lauter. D.C. Heath and Co., Lexington, MA: 1994.Golden, Catherine, ed. The captive imagination: a casebook on a yellow background. The Feminist Press at the City University of NY: 1992. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible. European pub in New York. Co.: 1895-98. Northeastern UP, Boston: 1993.Note1 The poem "An Obstacle" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is used as an epigraph by Catherine Golden, ed. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press: NY City UP, 1992) vii.