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Kate Chopin

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About her life:

American author Kate Chopin (1850

1904) wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana. Published by some of America's most prestigious magazines, including Vogue and the Atlantic Monthly. Her stories appeared in anthologies from the 1920s.
Curiosity: Vogue first issue had come

out just a few weeks before, in December 1892. It cost ten cents (about $2.30 in 2009 American dollars).

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About her life:

Catherine (Kate) O'Flaherty was born in St.

Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1850. Her father was Thomas O'Flaherty of County Galway, Ireland. Her mother was Eliza Faris of St. Louis. Kate's family on her mother's side was of French extraction. Kate grew up speaking both French and English. She was bilingual and bicultural. 1868 Kate attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. Mentored by woman--by her mother, her grandmother, great grandmother, as well as by the Sacred Heart nuns.

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Kate spent the Civil War in St. Louis, a city where residents

supported both the Union and the Confederacy.

She was deeply responsive during the period just prior to her

undertaking a literary career to the major new ideas and fiction of her time, reading fully in Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and the French naturalists.
From 1867 to 1870 Kate kept a "commonplace book" in which

she recorded diary entries. Writing for her was a therapy against depression.
Chopin's seemingly different writing style did in fact emerge

from an admiration of Guy de Maupassant. ...I read his stories and marveled at them. Here was life, not fiction

Some Of Her Works:

Stories
Bayou Folk A Night In Acadie The Storm The Story of an Hour Dsire's Baby A Pair of Silk Stockings Athenaise At the Cadian Ball Lilacs A Respectable Woman The Unexpected The Kiss Beyond the Bayou Beauty of The Baby

Today Kate Chopin is best known for her sensitive treatment of women's lives. But in the 1890s she was praised mostly for her "local color," her pictures of Louisiana Creoles and Acadians. All topics part of her Naturalism view.

Novels
At Fault The Awakening

A Graphic Short Story Based on "The Story of an Hour"

"Free, free, free!" Later, when she discovers that her husband is alive, she dies out of grief. The doctors believe that she died from the joy of seeing her husband.

In 1904 Chopin returned home from a fair, she was very tired. She died the day after, doctors thought that she had had a cerebral hemorrhage.

Thank You

In his 1969 biography, Per Seyersted summarizes what Kate Chopin accomplished. She "broke new ground in American literature," he says. "She was the first woman writer in her country to accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious, outspoken fiction. Revolting against tradition and authority.

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