... was that Chopin's intention with most of the stories lay beneath the surface. The setting seemed to throw the reviewers off. Had the stories been set in the northeast, the collection would have been shunned by reviewers and readers alike. However the reviewers looked upon the book as strange because of the setting. One of the main focuses of the book was that of praising women. After the publication of Bayou Folks Chopin was encouraged ... stories. "Ti Demon" was rejected by two publishers and a third collection of short stories was also rejected by Chopin's publisher (Ewell 26). Though...

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... local colorist with a good ear for dialect and as a writer concerned with women's issues (sexuality, equality, independence). At the height of her fame, she also wrote and published two novels "At Fault" (1890) and "The Awakening" (1899). Perhaps her best-known essay today is "The Story of An Hour" written in 1894. Kate Chopin was born Katherine O"Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851 ... Irish immigrants. She was well educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis and graduated 1868, following her father's accidental death. In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, and the new cou...

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