The actor's job is to fully investigate the point of view of the character that the group has chosen to write from. This includes the clues given in the text, background information on his/her station in life, and how the character will be incorporated into the story.

Before you do any research please print out the following handout. This is part of your grade so please be thorough and careful while you fill it out. You will also need it to finish your story.

Actor Worksheet

Here are some sites where you can find information on the characters:

Victorian Medicine
http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/

Science and Technology Time line

http://65.107.211.206/science/science.html

Women and Victorian Public Health: Difficulties in Childbirth

http://65.107.211.206/health/health6.html

Health and Hygiene in the 19th Century

http://65.107.211.206/health/health10.html

Freud and Freudianism

http://65.107.211.206/science/sci4.html

Poisoned Wallpaper

http://65.107.211.206/health/mauve1.html

Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

http://65.107.211.206/books/suicide/01.html#insanity2

Dr. Charcot- Founder of Hysteria

http://www.albany.net/~tjc/charcot.html

This site contains an article that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote for her magazine The Forerunner.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/wallpaper/whywrote.html

Charlotte Perkins Gilman faced critics who thought her work was too disturbing.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/wallpaper/scudderscomment.html

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