Kate Chopin’s biography
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Kate Chopin
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Birth/ Death
Birthplace
Nationality
Real name
Marriage
Living place
1882
1888
1892 to 1895
Publication
1894
1897
1898
Two novels
Inspiration
The people in her stories
Setting/Time
Recognized
Emphasis
February 8,1850/ August 221904
St Louis
American
Katherine O’ Flaherty
At 20
Louisiana
Husband/ death
Write poems
Short-stories for children and adults
Magazines (Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The
Century Magazine, and The Youth's
Companion.)
The Story of an Hour ,Bayou Folk
A Night in Acadie( a short-story )
Important short stories:"Desiree's Baby", a
tale of miscegenation and "The Storm "(
At Fault ( 1890 )
The Awakening ( 1899) criticized and
rediscovered / 1950s: women / fight for /
rights )
Emile Zola and Guy De Maupassant
Usually inhabitants of Louisiana
Natchitoches in north central Louisiana;
Southern society/ late 19th century
one of the leading writers of her time.
Women’s lives; their struggles to create an
identity of their own.