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Kate Choping (1851 – 1904)
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Kate Chopin came of French-Creole parentage on her mother’s side and Irish immigrants on her father’s side. She grew up in a household dominated by generations of women, and it was from her great-grandmother that she heard the tales of the early French settlers to St. Louis that were later to influence many of her short stories with their colorful descriptions of Creole and Acadian life.Much of Chopin’s writing deals with women searching for freedom from male domination, and she is considered to be an early feminist writer. She wrote over a hundred short stories, many of which were published in two collections: Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadia (1897). Her two novels, At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), deal with the controversial themes of divorce and adultery, respectively. Denounced as immoral, The Awakening caused a public uproar, which left Chopin deeply depressed and discouraged. As a result, she wrote very little in the last five years of her life.
