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Title	Bayou Folk
Creator	Chopin, Kate
Date	1894
Publisher	Boston; New York, Houghton, Mifflin and co.
Subjects	Louisiana--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Description	Library's LLMVC c.2 is a complete first edition and bears a manuscript poem and signature of Kate Chopin on the front fly leaves. It is also signed Yola L. Kahn and is in original publisher's binding.
Notes	Kate Chopin (1851-1904) published Bayou Folk in 1894. It was her second book, and her first to be commercially published. Although today Chopin is considered among the most important women in nineteenth-century American fiction, she was a highly controversial writer during her lifetime. Her novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, brought Chopin critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, and she consequently abandoned writing. More recent critics call it a masterpiece of its time, significant for its social and psychological themes. Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Bayou Folk, in which Chopin has written out and signed a variant version of her poem, “White Oaks,” substituting “live oaks” for “white oaks”: Of all the places on earth I know I’d rather stay where the live oaks grow . From dawn till night, the whole day long They sing their musical, mystical song Of rest, rest for the time is flying , Dream, dream for the day is dying ! Oh! That tomorrow were far away And all forever a long today When the world stands still and the soft winds blow In the beautiful land where the live oaks grow! Although Chopin biographer Emily Toth suspects that the author inscribed more than one copy of this book, no others inscribed by her are known to survive, perhaps because the book was not made from sturdy materials. In fact, LSU's copy is so fragile that the originals cannot safely be displayed.
Language	en
Digital Collection	Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections
Special Collections Division	Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Book Collection
Repository	Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections ( http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special )
Restrictions	Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.
Cite As	Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections, LOUISiana Digital Library, Baton Rouge, La.
Contact and Ordering Information	E-mail lsudiglib@lsu.edu with questions or comments. See instructions for ordering reprints of this item here: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/services/duplication.html Mention the "Item number" or "Item URL" in your request.
Item URL	See 'reference url' on the navigation bars.
Collection URL	http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/index_LSU_SCE.php?CISOROOT=%2FLSU_SCE
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Transcript	Kate Chopin (1851-1904) published Bayou Folk in 1894. It was her second book, and her first to be commercially published. Although today Chopin is considered among the most important women in nineteenth-century American fiction, she was a highly controversial writer during her lifetime. Her novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, brought Chopin critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, and she consequently abandoned writing. More recent critics call it a masterpiece of its time, significant for its social and psychological themes. Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Bayou Folk, in which Chopin has written out and signed a variant version of her poem, “White Oaks,” substituting “live oaks” for “white oaks”: Of all the places on earth I know I’d rather stay where the live oaks grow. From dawn till night, the whole day long They sing their musical, mystical song Of rest, rest for the time is flying, Dream, dream for the day is dying! Oh! That tomorrow were far away And all forever a long today When the world stands still and the soft winds blow In the beautiful land where the live oaks grow! Although Chopin biographer Emily Toth suspects that the author inscribed more than one copy of this book, no others inscribed by her are known to survive, perhaps because the book was not made from sturdy materials. In fact, LSU's copy is so fragile that the originals cannot safely be displayed.
Digital Collection	Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections
Repository	Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections ( http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special )
Restrictions	Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.
Cite As	Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections, LOUISiana Digital Library, Baton Rouge, La.
Contact and Ordering Information	E-mail lsudiglib@lsu.edu with questions or comments. See instructions for ordering reprints of this item here: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/services/duplication.html Mention the "Item number" or "Item URL" in your request.
Item URL	See 'reference url' on the navigation bars.
Collection URL	http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/index_LSU_SCE.php?CISOROOT=%2FLSU_SCE

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