biography
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Chopin, Kate
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née Katherine O'Flaherty
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pronunciation:
[shohpin]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1851–1904)
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| biography:
| Novelist, short-story writer, and poet, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Educated in St Louis, she married Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton trader from Louisiana, by whom she had six children. After her husband died of swamp fever (1882), she returned with her children to St Louis, where she began to compose sketches of her life, collected in Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). This work gives no indication of the furore she aroused with the publication of a realistic novel of sexual passion, The Awakening (1899), which was harshly condemned by the public. Interest in her work was revived largely by Edmund Wilson, and she has since been embraced by feminists because of her concerns about the freedom of women. |
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