Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
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Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Although she was brought up in a wealthy and socially elite Catholic family, Chopin's childhood was marred by tragedies. Her father was killed in a train accident when Chopin was just four years old, and in the mostrar más following years she also lost her older brother, great-grandmother, and half-brother. In 1870, at the age of 19, she married Oscar Chopin, the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. The couple had seven children together, five boys and two girls, before Oscar died of swamp fever in 1883. The following year, Chopin packed up her family and moved back to St. Louis to be with her mother, who died just a year later. To support herself and her family, Chopin started to write. Her first novel, At Fault, was published in 1890. Her most famous work, The Awakening, inspired by a real-life New Orleans woman who committed adultery, was published in 1899. The book explores the social and psychological consequences of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage in 19th century America, is now considered a classic of the feminist movement and caused such an uproar in the community that Chopin almost entirely gave up writing. Chopin did try her hand at a few short stories, most of which were not even published. Chopin died on August 22, 1904, of a brain hemorrhage, after collapsing at the World's Fair just two days before. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected… (2002) 343 copias
British Mystery Megapack Volume 4: The Secret Adversary, Tales of Chinatown, At The Villa Rose, Egyptian Cigarette, A… (2014) 9 copias
Kate Chopin: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 7 copias
Il sogno di un᾽ora 3 copias
Kate Chopin's Collected Works: At Fault, Bayou Folk, Juanita, Lilacs, The Kiss, Her Letters, A Family Affair, A… (2013) 3 copias
At the 'Cadian Ball 3 copias
O Despertar 3 copias
The Awakening Cane Maggie : A Girl of the Streets Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Editions Ser) (1999) 2 copias
A História de uma Hora e Outros Contos (Coleção Folha Inglês Com Clássicos Da Literatura, #24) 2 copias
O Beijo 2 copias
Sin título 2 copias
Works by Kate Chopin: Novels by Kate Chopin, Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby, the Awakening, the… (2010) 1 copia
Meias de Seda 1 copia
Athénaïse (texto bilingüe) 1 copia
“Lilacs” 1 copia
“The ‘Cadian Ball” 1 copia
Charlie; and other stories 1 copia
Short Fiction 1 copia
Chopin, Kate Archive 1 copia
Kate Chopin: The Complete Novels and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 22) (2016) 1 copia
En kvinde vågner 1 copia
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Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
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The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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For Want of a Horse: Twenty-Three Tales of Supernatural Stallions, Magical Mares, and Paranormal Ponies (2015) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Chopin, Kate
- Nombre legal
- O'Flaherty, Katherine
- Otros nombres
- Chopin, Kate
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1850-02-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1904-08-22
- Lugar de sepultura
- Calvary Vemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- brain hemorrhage
- Lugares de residencia
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Grand Coteau, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, USA - Educación
- Sacred Heart Academy, St. Louis
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer - Organizaciones
- Wednesday Club
- Premios y honores
- St. Louis Walk of Fame
- Biografía breve
- Katherine O’Flaherty was the daughter of an Irish immigrant father and a French-Creole mother. She was educated at the St. Louis Sacred Heart Academy and then made a debut into Southern society. In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, a cotton trader from Louisiana, and the couple had six children. Widowed in 1882, and needing to support herself and her young children, Kate Chopin began to write sketches of her former plantation life, which appeared in periodicals such as Bayou Folk. These received immediate acclaim, as did her first novel At Fault (1890). Kate Chopin published two novels and about 100 short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction was set in Louisiana and her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. Her short stories were most popular in her own day and appeared in some of America's most prestigious magazines. After her death her work was temporarily forgotten, but then in the 1920s her short stories began to appear in anthologies, and the public and literary scholars again began to take notice of her.
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The first half of this novel takes place on the seashore of the Gulf of Mexico, and Chopin vividly conveys the experience of spending leisure time on the coast in the summer: late-night dinners, midnight swims, watching the water for hours in the afternoon.
My other impressions of the novel pale in comparison to my pleasure at her understanding of the private beach scene, but I liked it. Edna awakens to become a self-absorbed, childish and alienated loner; the patriarchy proves resilient; fairy-tale endings are eschewed.… (más)
My other impressions of the novel pale in comparison to my pleasure at her understanding of the private beach scene, but I liked it. Edna awakens to become a self-absorbed, childish and alienated loner; the patriarchy proves resilient; fairy-tale endings are eschewed.… (más)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin has been sitting on the shelf for some time, purchased at a point in time when I thought I wanted to read more classics. This was Chopin's second book so it fit with the Classics CAT for February dealing with two or seconds. I knew the basic plot of a woman struggling to find an authentic life in a world where women are largely considered decorative. Once awakened by real love during her summer sojourn on Grand Isle, Edna Pontellier finds it impossible to return to her normal life as wife and mother in New Orleans. The book was very controversial when it was published at the turn of the century as Chopin described an early feminist mindset that really did threaten a world that circumcised women's lives. My edition is a study one with lots of interpretive essays as well as primary source documents from the books and magazines of the times with their guidance for women to be good wives and mothers.… (más)
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The plot focuses on a woman finding herself. Finding her individualism and rebelling against the conformative expectations of society. Infidelity is the plot vehicle this is done through, and I feel like people really get caught up on this, but ultimately, I don't think the crux of the book is about infidelity, rather marriage is just a symbol for conformity and female oppression. That being said, some moments of writing referring to the affair are beautifully written, Chopin really hits her stride when she was writing about their relationship.
Ending was powerful, but felt super rushed. Really wished it would have been expanded upon a bit.
Favorite Quote:
"She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing."… (más)