Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty (1851-1904) American novelist and short-story
writer best known for her portrayal of Creole life in Louisiana. Chopin did
not begin writing until after her husband's death in 1882; much of her work
was condemned during her lifetime, but her popularity resurged in the 1960s.
A Lady of Bayou St. John (1894) A lonely wife whose husband is away at
war is wooed and won by a handsome neighbor with whom she plans to run away,
until she receives word of her husband's fate. From "Bayou Folk" (1894).
