![]() Written in 1896 and published in Vogue the following year, this story is about a married woman, Mrs Sommers, who comes into possession of fifteen dollars and, despite originally planning to spend the money on new clothes for her children, ends up doing something she has never done before: treating herself to new clothes, a meal in a restaurant, and a theatre show.Ĭhopin implies that this is not some cold and calculated act designed to deprive her children of necessities, but an impulse and almost automatic act, as if Mrs Sommers in the grip of some consumerist mania. ![]() Blackman’s portrait showing a woman reading a letter is also thought to have inspired this story, which is about a woman who is unable to destroy the letters she received from a former lover, even after she has got married. Written in 1894 – something of an annus mirabilis for Chopin – this story is thought to have been inspired by a local artist, Carrie Blackman, who intrigued Chopin when the two women met at a party. ![]()
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