No Longer Silent Kate Chopin was a writer whose sense of self was deeply rooted in the South. Chopin would create worlds for his characters to live in; his inspiration for these worlds was his life experiences he gained living in the South during the second half of the nineteenth century. Chopin's roots and the time in which he lived had historical significance and a great impact on his writing style and the themes of his stories. She was also one of the first American authors to write truthfully about the hidden lives of women, their sexuality, and the complex relationships women had with their husbands. Critic Per Seyersted said that [Kate Chopin] “broke new ground in American literature. She was the first writer in her country to accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious and candid fiction” (“Kate Chopin: Overview”). Chopin was a writer who tested boundaries with her stories. One of Chopin's first published books was Bayou Folk, a collection of Louisiana stories, in 1894. It was very well accepted by the public and marked her as a great local black writer. . Chopin was famous for her work as a local colorist, but to describe Kate Chopin's writing one must consider many types of styles. There are elements of romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, naturalism, existentialism, feminism and local color. Chopin's feminist viewpoint was not what one might consider feminist as a dictionary term; she never joined any feminist group to seek equal rights for women. Rather “Chopin saw that the problems faced by his sex were too complicated to admit of easy solutions…… In a society where man makes the rules, woman is often held in a state of tutelage… middle of paper….. ... Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 1st. 2014. Seyersted, Per. “An Excerpt from Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography.” Kate Chopin: a critical biography. For Seyersted. Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Rpt. in World Literature Criticism, Supplement 1-2: a selection of major authors from Gale's literary criticism series. Ed. Polly Vedder. vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 5, 2014. Seyersted, Per. "Kate Chopin: Overview." Reference Guide to American Literature. Ed. Jim Camp. 3rd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 1st. 2014.Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin and Literary Convention: 'Désirée's Baby'." in Southern Studies 20.2 (Summer 1981): 201-208. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 1st 2014.