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xxiv Chronology Date Events Relevant to Kate Chopin and The Awakening Events in Kate Chopin’s Life and Work Chopin travels to a conference of the Western Association of Writers in Indiana. Chopin’s review of Lourdes by Émile Zola is published. 1896 Chopin’s “Athénaïse,” one of her best-known stories, is published in the Atlantic Monthly. 1897 Chopin’s A Night in Acadie, a collection of 21 of her stories, is published critics praise the book. Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” another of her best-known stories, is published in Vogue. Chopin begins writing The Awakening. 1898 Chopin finishes writing The Awakening. Chopin writes “The Storm”—today one of her best-known stories—but does not try to publish it it appears in print only in 1969. 1899 Thorstein Veblen publishes The Theory of the Leisure Class it is condemned by critics. Its relevance to The Awakening is discussed at length in Chapter 2 and in the annotations to the novel. Chopin publishes The Awakening it is condemned by critics.