“A Pair of Silk Stockings,” a short story by Kate Chopin first published in an 1897 issue of Vogue magazine. Chopin was a wonderful Southern writer whose 1899 novella, The Awakening, was so controversial (imagine, a woman with dreams and desires!) that it virtually destroyed her literary reputation.

Fortunately for readers everywhere, Chopin’s work was rediscovered in the late 1960s and has been a staple of America literature ever since.

Kate Chopin enjoyed contributing to Vogue because she believed that the magazine was uncharacteristically “fearless and truthful” in its portrayals of women’s lives of that era. Chopin’s writing style may have been gentle on the surface, but it fearlessly probed the unrealistic expectations and Victorian attitudes that held women down. Read More→