Bayou folk / by Kate Chopin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louisiana--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Louisiana.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Library of the Palatine Bridge (bookplate) (stamp, Palatine Bridge, N.J.)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Cathcart, Cleland & Co. (Indianapolis, Ind.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 313 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894.

Contents:

A no-account Creole

In and out of old Natchitoches

In Sabine

A very fine fiddle

Beyond the Bayou

Old Aunt Peggy

The return of Alcibiade

A rude awakening

The Bênitous' slave

Désirée's baby

A turkey hunt

Madame Célestin's divorce

Love on the Bon-Dieu

Loka

Boulôt and Boulotte

For Marse Chouchoute

A visit to Avoyelles

A wizard from Gettysburg

Ma'ame Pélagie

At the 'Cadian ball

La Belle Zoraïde

A gentleman of Bayou Têche

A lady of Bayou St. John.

Notes:

Twenty-three short stories.

Advertisements at end.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph of A.J. Thomas on front pastedown ("Sept. 1894 Evansville Ind."), front free endpaper and p. [1].

Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's label of Cathcart, Cleland & Co. of Indianapolis, Ind., on back pastedown.

Cited in:

BAL 3244

OCLC:

249028395