Quieter Kate Chopin was a writer whose sense of self was deeply rooted in the South. Chopin created worlds in which his characters lived; her inspiration for these worlds was her own life experiences that she had gained while living in the South during the second half of the 19th century. Chopin's roots and the times in which she lived had historical significance and a great impact on her writing style and the themes of her 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 they had with their husbands. Critic Per Seyersted said that [Kate Chopin] “broke new ground in American literature. She was the first woman writer in her country to accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious and frank fiction” (“Kate Chopin: Overview”). Chopin was a writer who tested the limits with her stories. One of the first books Chopin published 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 writer in color. . Chopin was well known for her work as a local colorist, but to describe Kate Chopin's writing one must look at many types of styles. There are elements of romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, naturalism, existentialism, feminism as well as local color. Chopin's feminist view was not what one would consider a feminist dictionary term; she never joined any feminist group to seek equal rights for women. On the contrary, “Chopin saw that the problems facing his sex were too complicated to admit of easy solutions… In a society where the man makes the rules, the woman is often kept in a state of guardianship middle of paper. ..... Detroit: Gale, 2002. Information Resource Center. Internet. May 1st. 2014. Seyersted, Per. “An Excerpt from Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography.” Kate Chopin: a critical biography. By Seyersted. Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Rpt. in Criticism of World Literature, Supplement 1-2: A selection of major authors from Gale's literary criticism series. Ed. Polly Vedder. Flight. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Information Resource Center. Internet. May 5, 2014. Seyersted, Per. “Kate Chopin: Overview.” Reference guide to American literature. Ed. Jim Camp. 3rd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literary Resource Center. Internet. May 1st. 2014. Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin and the Literary Convention: 'Désirée's Baby'." in Southern Studies 20.2 (Summer 1981): 201-208. Rep. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Flight. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Information Resource Center. Internet. May 1 2014.