Isn the phrasing of “The Storm” sexually explicit for something written in the 1890s?
Yes, the phrasing is way beyond what any respectable American magazine, even a comparatively advanced magazine like Vogue (in which Kate Chopin published nineteen stories), would have printed at the time. From everything we can tell, Chopin did not try to send “The Storm” out to editors. The story was not published until 1969, sixty-five years after Chopin’s death.
