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) 350 copias, 2 reseñas
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) 25 copias, 1 reseña
British Mystery Megapack Volume 4: The Secret Adversary, Tales of Chinatown, At The Villa Rose, Egyptian Cigarette, A… (2014) 11 copias
Kate Chopin: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 8 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
Kate Chopin: The Complete Novels and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 22) (2016) 2 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
Short Fiction 2 copias
O Beijo 2 copias
Sin título 2 copias
Meias de Seda 1 copia
Athénaïse (texto bilingüe) 1 copia
“The ‘Cadian Ball” 1 copia
Works by Kate Chopin: Novels by Kate Chopin, Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby, the Awakening, the… (2010) 1 copia
“Lilacs” 1 copia
Charlie; and other stories 1 copia
The Awakening & Other Short Stories: Kate Chopin (Short Stories, Classics, Literature) [Annotated] (2021) 1 copia
Chopin, Kate Archive 1 copia
En kvinde vågner 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 938 copias, 7 reseñas
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contribuidor — 866 copias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuidor — 264 copias, 3 reseñas
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) — Contribuidor — 186 copias, 2 reseñas
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 150 copias, 1 reseña
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 100 copias, 1 reseña
Two Friends and Other 19th-century American Lesbian Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 99 copias, 1 reseña
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Contribuidor — 91 copias, 1 reseña
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 69 copias, 1 reseña
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 43 copias, 1 reseña
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contribuidor — 41 copias
Civil War Memories: Nineteen Stories of Battle, Bravery, Love, and Tragedy (2000) — Contribuidor — 34 copias, 1 reseña
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness (2003) — Contribuidor — 27 copias, 1 reseña
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
Great Classic Stories II: Eighteen Unabridged Classics (2010) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 16 copias
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Contribuidor — 15 copias, 2 reseñas
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Contribuidor — 15 copias, 1 reseña
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
For Want of a Horse: Twenty-Three Tales of Supernatural Stallions, Magical Mares, and Paranormal Ponies (2015) — Contribuidor — 2 copias, 2 reseñas
ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC BANNED BOOKS: Adam Bede, Fanny Hill, Candide, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The… — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- 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 Awakening is one of those books which my sense is has never quite escaped its national context—Americans, I think, are likely to read it in high school or uni but as a "classic" it's far less known in other countries. I only heard of it, and Kate Chopin's other short stories, a few years ago, and decided to read it out of curiosity about it as a piece of early feminist literature.
Having now read it, I can certainly appreciate why Chopin's work was rediscovered by second wavers, grappling as it does with questions of freedom, control, marriage, and motherhood. Both Edna—the main character in The Awakening—and several of Chopin's other female characters struggle with these questions in various ways. But while Chopin's prose is well-crafted, and there are some lovely moments of character observation, I found myself largely unmoved by her work. Her writing is not bad, but it didn't speak to me. I didn't particularly connect with any of the characters in The Awakening itself, and the short stories felt too much like hybrids of O. Henry/Just So Stories with uncomfortable racial undertones (or just... tones) to engage me at all.… (más)
Having now read it, I can certainly appreciate why Chopin's work was rediscovered by second wavers, grappling as it does with questions of freedom, control, marriage, and motherhood. Both Edna—the main character in The Awakening—and several of Chopin's other female characters struggle with these questions in various ways. But while Chopin's prose is well-crafted, and there are some lovely moments of character observation, I found myself largely unmoved by her work. Her writing is not bad, but it didn't speak to me. I didn't particularly connect with any of the characters in The Awakening itself, and the short stories felt too much like hybrids of O. Henry/Just So Stories with uncomfortable racial undertones (or just... tones) to engage me at all.… (más)
I liked the first half of the novel set in the Gulf Islands, as our heroine awakens, more than the final half where she explores her new self back in New Orleans- but both were good. I'd say a solid 3.5 stars. The writing is very good, at times excellent, and as every blurb on the novel states extremely bold for its time in the late 1800's.
Chopin plays the English language like a concert pianist. Many lovely and poetic turns of phrase. What was shocking in 1899 wouldn't alarm an eight-year-old today, the book is still an engaging read, at times almost like Chopin is whispering it into your ear.
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Young Mrs. Louise Mallard has just received news of her husband Richard’s death in a train accident. Obviously, her reaction is that of grief. As the story says, “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.” Louise retreats to her room and locks the door, leaving her sister worried that Louise might be in the depths of uncontrollable despair. But what’s happening behind the door? (Ha! As if I’m going to tell you!)
People look for various criteria when it comes to short stories. But I think I can safely say that most people will consider an impressive ending as a necessary requirement. This story has one of the best endings. (Note: ‘best’ isn’t always an HEA ending.) Within just about 2800 words, it delivers a fulfilling experience, complete with character detailing and imagery.
Not gonna say more. Read this for yourself and find out the rest – it will hardly take a few minutes.
4.25 stars.
Because of its original publication date, this story is now in the public domain and can be read online on various sites. I read it from the below link.
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/
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