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Kate Chopin
Her Story
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Kate Chopin
• Born: Feb 8, 1850 in St. Louise, Missouri
• Original name Kate o’Flaherty
• She was third of five children born to Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty.
• Dies in St. Louise, Missouri on Aug 22, 1904
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Her education
• In 1855 at 5 ½ she was sent to The Sacred Heart Academy (a Catholic Boarding School in St. Louis)
• Following an accident that killed her father she was sent home and her great-grandmother taught her.
• She was well versed in French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past.
• She returned to Sacred Heart Academy when she was eight years old.
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Kate back story
• She was raised by strong women.
• Women who used their intelligence to stake a position in society both legally and socially without a man.
• It was not until Kate turned 16 that their were any married couples in her home.
• This is despite the fact she had lots of brothers, sisters, cousins and boarders in their home.
• She had many loved ones die on certain religious holidays which made her skeptical of religion (Wyatt).
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Kate and Children in 1877
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Kate and Marriage
• In 1870, at the age of 22, she married Oscar Chopin, twenty-five, and the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Lousiana.
• He was French Catholic in background as well as Kate.
• By all accounts he adored his wife, admired her independence intelligence, and “allowed” her unheard freedom.
• After their marriage they lived in New Orleans (Wyatt).
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Kate and Marriage Cont…
• She birthed Five boys and two girls all before she was twenty-eight.
• Oscar was not an able business man, and they were forced to move to his old home in a small Louisiana parish.
• Oscar died of swamp fever there in 1882 and Kate took to running his general store and plantation for over a year (Wyatt).
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Kate Chopin’s writing
Some facts about her writing.• Among her more than 100
short stories are "Désirée's Baby" and "Madame Celestin's Divorce.”
• The Awakening (1899), a realistic novel about the sexual and artistic awakening of a young mother who abandons her family, was initially condemned for its sexual frankness but was later acclaimed.
One of her more famous writing is “The Story of an Hour”
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Kate Chopin’s writing
• Her first novel, At Fault, was published in 1890, followed by two collections of her short stories, Bayou Folk in 1894.
• The Awakening was published in 1899, and by then she was well known.
• As a writer, Kate Chopin wrote very rapidly and without much revision.
• She usually worked in her home surrounded by her children (Kennedy).
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The Awakening
• The Awakening caused an uproar and Chopin was denied admission into the St. Louise Fine Art Club based on its publication.
• She was terribly hurt by the recation to the book and in the remaining five years of her life she wrote only a few short stories.
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Kate Chopin interesting facts
• She was the 3rd of 5 children, but her sisters dies in infancy and her brothers (from her fathers 1st marriage) in their early twenties.
• She was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five.
• Her father was killed two months after she was sent to boarding school (@ 5 ½ years old) when a train on which he was riding crossed a bridge that collapsed (Wyatt).
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More interesting facts
• Kate’s great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville (who educated her) was a smart independent woman. She has been the first woman in St. Louise to obtain legal separation from her husband , and raise her five children
(Wyatt).• Summarize verbally
Awakening…and how Story of an Hour are similar.
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Works Cited
• Kennedy, X. J., and Dana Gioia. Literature : an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. Print.
• Wyatt, Neal. "Biography of Kate Chopin." Biography of Kate Chopin. Virginia Commonwealth University, 1995. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.