By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Old Aunt Peggy’ is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904). She wrote the story on 8 January 1892 and it was accepted for publication by Harper’s Young People – who paid Chopin $3 for it – although in the end it was never published in that magazine.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Doctor Chevalier’s Lie’ is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904), written in 1891 and published in Vogue magazine in 1893. This brief narrative concerns a doctor who is summoned one night to a brothel, where a young woman has killed herself by shooting herself in the head.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Ripe Figs’ is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904). Subtitled ‘An Idyl’, the story is one of the shortest Chopin wrote, running to just one page. She wrote the story on 26 February 1892 and gave it the working title ‘Babette’s Visit’; it was published in Vogue magazine in 1893 (Chopin was paid $3 for the story).
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘At the ’Cadian Ball’ is an 1892 short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904). The story is about two men and two women and their romantic involvements leading up to, during, and after the event known as the ’Cadian Ball, a social occasion at which young Cajun people try to find marriage suitors.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘The Storm’ is an 1898 short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904). The story is a prequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’, another story Chopin had written six years earlier in 1892. However, ‘The Storm’ was too graphic in its exploration of sexuality to be published in Chopin’s lifetime, and was only first published in 1969.