It was at this period of my emerging from the vast solitude in which I had been making my own acquaintance, that I stumbled upon Maupassant. I had been in the woods, in the fields, groping around looking for something big, satisfying, convincing, and finding nothing but-myself a something neither big nor satisfying but wholly convincing. In the introduction to a previous Story of the Week selection, we discussed how Kate Chopin began to meet with resistance from American editors to the themes in her stories-especially to what literary historian Richard Gray has recently called her “subversive streak.” Her tales were increasingly informed by her reading of the French writer Guy de Maupassant, as she explained in the draft of an autobiographical essay she wrote in 1896 for The Atlantic*:Ībout eight years ago there fell accidentally into my hands a volume of Maupassant’s tales. Image courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections. Previous Story of the Week selection by Kate Chopinġ906 advertisement for Onyx-brand hosiery sold at Lord & Taylor, New York, with illustration by F. Frequently Asked Questions about Kate Chopin (Kate Chopin International Society)Īudio: “ A Pair of Silk Stockings” (Barbara Klein, Voice of America’s Learning English Program)
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