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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected… (2002) 343 exemplar
British Mystery Megapack Volume 4: The Secret Adversary, Tales of Chinatown, At The Villa Rose, Egyptian Cigarette, A… (2014) 9 exemplar
Kate Chopin: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 7 exemplar
Il sogno di un᾽ora 3 exemplar
Kate Chopin's Collected Works: At Fault, Bayou Folk, Juanita, Lilacs, The Kiss, Her Letters, A Family Affair, A… (2013) 3 exemplar
At the 'Cadian Ball 3 exemplar
O Despertar 3 exemplar
The Awakening Cane Maggie : A Girl of the Streets Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Editions Ser) (1999) 2 exemplar
A História de uma Hora e Outros Contos (Coleção Folha Inglês Com Clássicos Da Literatura, #24) 2 exemplar
A Pair of Silk Stockings [short story] 2 exemplar
O Beijo 2 exemplar
Ingen titel 2 exemplar
A Matter Of Prejudice And Other Stories 1 exemplar
La guarigione (in Un paio di calze di seta) 1 exemplar
Works by Kate Chopin: Novels by Kate Chopin, Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby, the Awakening, the… (2010) 1 exemplar
Meias de Seda 1 exemplar
Athénaïse (texto bilingüe) 1 exemplar
“Lilacs” 1 exemplar
“The ‘Cadian Ball” 1 exemplar
Desiree's Baby and Selected Short Stories 1 exemplar
A Reflection and Selected Short Stories 1 exemplar
Charlie; and other stories 1 exemplar
L'imprevisto (in Un paio di calze di seta) 1 exemplar
Due ritratti (in Un paio di calze di seta) 1 exemplar
The Awakening and Selected Stories 1 exemplar
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories 1 exemplar
The Big Short: inside the Doomsday machine 1 exemplar
In Sabine (in Un paio di calze di seta) 1 exemplar
Historia de una hora y otros cuentos. 1 exemplar
Le sue lettere (in Un paio di calze di seta) 1 exemplar
Short Fiction 1 exemplar
Chopin, Kate Archive 1 exemplar
Kate Chopin: The Complete Novels and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 22) (2016) 1 exemplar
En kvinde vågner 1 exemplar
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The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe: And Other Stories of Women and Fatness (The Women's Stories Project) (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
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The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Representative American Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
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For Want of a Horse: Twenty-Three Tales of Supernatural Stallions, Magical Mares, and Paranormal Ponies (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- 1850-02-08
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- 1904-08-22
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- Calvary Vemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Grand Coteau, Louisiana, USA
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- 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 av Kate Chopin
"In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else."
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