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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

A once successful 19th Century writer, Kate Chopin faded into obscurity for decades. During the feminist era of the late 1960's and '70's, her writings were rediscovered and her critical popularity has made her forever a writer of renown. Her novel, "The Awakening" that launched the demise of her fame when it was shunned for its sensuality, is now included on standard college literature reading lists. She is now spoken of in the same breath as Flannery O'Connor and other southern women writers. Although asleep for decades, she re-emerged as brilliant color on the landscape of American literature.
Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. The ...

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and single women, savvy and from a long line of ground breaking women. Victoria's own mother was the first woman in St. Louis to obtain a legal separation from her husband, after which she raised five children and ran a shipping business on the Mississippi. Although, the house was filled with brothers, uncles, cousins, and borders, until Kate was sixteen, no married couples live in her home (Wyatt pg). After graduating from Sacred Heart Academy, she was a popular debutante of society.
At the age of twenty, Kate married Oscar Chopin, the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. All accounts indicate that Oscar not only adored Kate but admired her independence and intelligence (Wyatt pg). They lived in New Orleans where Kate had five boy and two girls before she was twenty-eight. "There was much gossip about Madame Chopin's tight-fitting clothes, her flirtations and even her horseback riding. Virtually all the stories passed down describe how she did not belong. ...

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Added: 8/14/2015 06:01:24 AM
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