A Pair of Silk Stockings

Description:

Contains: [Désirée's Baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) Miss McEnders [Nég Créol](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078901W) [Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) [Story of an Hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)

subjects: fiction,  short stories,  miscegenation,  Louisiana Creoles,  quadroons,  racism,  impulse,  responsibility,  short story,  freedom,  selfhood,  self-fulfillment,  meaning of love,  Indo-iranian philology

People: Armand Aubigny,  Désirée,  Madame Valmont,  Sandrine,  La Blanche,  César François Xavier,  Mrs. Sommers,  Louise Mallard,  Brently Mallard,  Josephine,  Richards

Places: Louisiana,  L’Abri,  Mallard residence

Times: 19th century,  Antebellum era