<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Vogue </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1894 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Story of an Hour," is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894 . It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". Later it was reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". </P> <P> The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, and when she discovers that he is alive after all . "The Story of an Hour" was controversial by American standards of the 1890s because it features a female protagonist who feels liberated by the news of her husband's death . In Unveiling Kate Chopin, Emily Toth argues that Chopin "had to have her heroine die" in order to make the story publishable ". (The "heroine" dies when she sees her husband alive after he was thought to be dead .) </P>

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