What are the "Societal" and "Historical" Connections?

Before I start talking about the societal and historical connections to "The Yellow Wallpaper", I have to ask an important question. What is a societal connection? What is a historical connection? In my opinion, I think that these are connections to society and history. But in the dictionary, social connections are social groups, families and communities. Historical contexts are the moods, attitudes, and conditions that existed in a certain time. In the story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," I can make many, but not perfect, connections to the story. For example, Gilman says that there were greenhouses, but they are broken. She could be relating to her life. She had a good life, but it is broken due to not being able to do anything anymore. In my social life, my friend's friend was taken away due to a car accident. At first, he was a great athlete, but after driving around one night, a drunk driver hit and killed him. His good life was taken away, just like Jane's was. For my historical connection, it is about the Women's Suffrage Movement. In the 1800's, women stayed at home and took care of the family, sometimes didn't do anything. So at this time, she was probably a suffragette. These are my connections from the story.

These were some very valuable links that helped me out:
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/historyhomework/p/historicalcontext.htm
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/suffrage.html