Bannon, Lois Elmer, Magnolia Mound: A Louisiana River Plantation, Firebird Press, 1984.

This book examines plantation life and the economic system of slavery in the old South.

Bloom, Harold, ed., Kate Chopin, Modern Critical Views, Chelsea House, 1987.

This volume is a collection of critical essays on Chopin.

Jones, Anne Goodwyn, Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936, Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

This work features a discussion of important southern

women writers.

Saxon, Lyle, Old Louisiana, Pelican Publishing Company, 1989.

The main emphasis of this work is life in the old South.

Seyersted, Per, Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography, Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

This book is one of the earliest full-length critical works on Chopin, which helped lead to her "rediscovery."