Bayou Folk (1894). By: Kate Chopin (World's Classics): Short fiction

Short fiction by much-more-than-local-color-writer Kate Chopin. Includes Ma'ame Pelagie, a character who shows up again later....... Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald. Of maternal French and paternal Irish descent...