title: Shutter of Snow (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
author:  Emily Holmes Coleman 
description: Emily Holmes Coleman's <i>The Shutter of Snow</i> presents a close study of what it was like to be treated in a 19th-century mental hospital. The innovative language and viewpoint follow the thoughts and actions of Marthe Gail, institutionalized for depression after the birth of her son. Coleman draws a brilliant picture of Gail's mind and its passage through the fog of her illness; portraits of other patients and the caretakers who attend them are equally striking. Unlike Charlotte Perkins Gilman's <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=1558611584/${0}"><i>The Yellow Wall-Paper</i></a>, in this startling story Marthe's husband offers loving support while she sorts through her delusions of being God and her violent behavior.
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