Kate Chopin Kate O'Flaherty Chopin. At a Glance 18511904; American short-story writer andnovelist; Known first as a local colorist of Creole life in Louisiana, Chopin http://www.nyu.edu/classes/garcia/authors/chopin.htm
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Extractions: June 9 ~ She Abandoned Herself A Vocation and a Voice "When she a b a n d o n e d herself a little w h i sp e r e d word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over u n d e r her breath; free , free, free!" ~ Kate Chopin Novelist Kate Chopin 's quest for creative freedom shocked the literary world in 1899 with the novel The Awakening . Chopin created the unforgettable character Edna Pontellier, the married woman who sought her own sexual and emotional identity. "I give myself where I please," the independent Edna said. Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty (1851-1904) in St. Louis, Missouri, an only child whose mother was a French Creole aristocrat. "The way to become rich," Chopin advised, "is to make money, not to save it." Raised a strict Catholic, she was a voracious reader who always kept a journal and began writing seriously following the unexpected death of her husband to swamp fever. "But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing," she observed. Panned by the critics of her time, Chopin was banished from Victorian respectable circles and never wrote another novel. Her bold
American Passages - Unit 8. Regional Realism: Authors Authors Kate Chopin (18511904) Kate Chopin was born in St. Eliza Faris, descendedfrom French Creole ancestors, and her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was an http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit08/authors-2.html
Extractions: Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. Writing at the end of the nineteenth century at the height of the popularity of "local color" fiction, Kate Chopin introduced American readers to a new fictional setting with her evocations of the diverse culture of Cajun and Creole Louisiana. But while much of Chopin's work falls into the category of regionalism , her stories and especially her novel, The Awakening , are also notable for their introduction of controversial subjects like women's sexuality, divorce, extramarital sex, and miscegenation. Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a socially prominent, financially secure family. Her mother, Eliza Faris, descended from French Creole ancestors, and her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who had made his fortune as a merchant in St. Louis. Chopin learned to speak both French and English in her home and was sent to Catholic school. At the age of nineteen she married Oscar Chopin, a French Creole from a Louisiana planter family. After a glamorous European honeymoon, the couple settled in New Orleans, where Oscar went into business as a cotton broker and Kate became active in the city's social life. Her fluency in French and southern sympathies ensured that she fit easily into New Orleans society.
World Book || Short Story A-L Top of page. Kate Chopin (18511904) was an American novelist and shortstory writer. Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was born in St. Louis. http://www2.worldbook.com/features/wwriters/html/shortstorya-l.htm
Extractions: Margaret Atwood Elizabeth Bowen Emily Carr Kate Chopin ... Sarah Orne Jewett Margaret Atwood (1939-...) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and critic. Atwood first gained recognition for her collection of poems The Circle Game (1966). Her many other books of poetry include The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), a verse biography of an early Canadian writer; Power Politics (1971), an investigation of the limits of male-female relationships; and Two-Headed Poems (1978), which includes poems about a mother and child. Her Selected Poems was published in 1978 and Selected Poems II in 1986. Atwood gained a wide reputation as a novelist with Surfacing (1972), which is the story of a woman who searches in the world of nature for the meaning of her life. The Edible Woman (1969) is a satiric comedy about a woman whose personality is being destroyed by her relationship with her fiance. Lady Oracle (1976) is a mix of social satire, psychological analysis, and fantasy. Bodily Harm (1981) deals with a Canadian journalist and her experiences during a revolution in the Caribbean.
World Book || Novelists C-E top. Kate Chopin (18511904) was an American novelist and short storywriter. She adultery. Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was born in St. Louis. http://www2.worldbook.com/features/wwriters/html/novelistsc-e.htm
Extractions: Willa Cather (1873-1947) was one of America's finest novelists. Her reputation rests on her novels about Nebraska and the American Southwest. In them, she expressed a deep love of the land and a strong distaste for the materialism and conformism she saw in modern life. She showed a genuine devotion to traditional valuesthe importance of family, human dignity, hope, and courage. Cather also demonstrated a strong willingness to question customary ways of thinking and feeling, especially by creating strong female characters who have strength and determination of a sort that earlier writers had credited only to men. Cather wrote 12 novels, of which My Antonia (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) rank as the best. My Antonia describes how an immigrant farm girl triumphs over hardship in pioneer Nebraska. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a historical novel about the work of the first Roman Catholic archbishop in the New Mexico Territory. The novel conveys Cather's sense of the sacred in the archbishop's work and also in the natural world.
LitSearch: An Online Literary Database Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty (18511904) Works by this author Awakening And SelectedShort Stories, The. Copyright 2001 Keith Ito. All Rights Reserved. http://daily.stanford.edu/litsearch/servlet/DescribeAuthor?name=Chopin, Kate O'F
LitSearch: An Online Literary Database Awakening And Selected Short Stories, The by Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty (18511904).Copyright 2001 Keith Ito. All Rights Reserved. Admin Control Panel. http://daily.stanford.edu/litsearch/servlet/DescribeWork?work=165
AUTHOR NAME DATA DISK OTHER INFORMATION AC AUTHORS DD331 ADAMS CHEEVER, JOHN, 19121982, CHEKOV, ANTON, 1860-1904, DD347, Chopin. Kate O'Flaherty,1851-1904, DD340, 198, 350,, CHRISTIE, AGATHA, 1890-1976, CLANCY, TOM, http://www.bethel-college.edu/library/Catalog Listings/Author File.htm
Extractions: AUTHOR NAME A-C AUTHORS ADAMS, HENRY (BROOKS) 1838-1918 AGEE, JAMES 1909-1955 ALLENDE, ISABEL AMIS, KINGSLEY, 1922- ANAYA, RUDOLFO 1937- ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN, 1805-1875 ANDERSON, SHERWOOD, 1876-1941 ANGELOU, MAYA, 1928 ARISTOPHANES 448?-385 B.C. ARISTOTLE 384-322 B.C. ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 1822-1888 ASIMOV, ISAAC 1920-1992 ATWOOD, MARGARET, 1939- AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS, 1917- AUDEN, H.W. (HUGH WYNSTAN) 1907-1973 AUSTEN, JANE, 1775-1817 AUTHORS, AFRICAN AUTHORS, AMERICAN AUTHORS, FRENCH AUTHORS, RUSSIAN BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924- BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES PIERRE, 1821-1867 BEAUVOIR, SIMON DE, 1908- BECKETT, SAMUEL, 1906- BELLOW, SAUL, 1915- BENNETT, ALAN 1934- BETTS, DORIS, 1932- BIERCE, AMBROSE, 1842-1914 BISHOP, ELIZABETH, 1911-1979 BLACK AUTHORS BLAIR, ERIC (ARTHUR) 1903-1950 (ORWELL, GEORGE) BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757-1827 BLUME, JUDY BORGES, JORGE LOUIS, 1899-1986 BRAUN, LILLIAN JACKSON 1916- BRECHT, BERTOLT, 1898-1956 BROOKE, RUPERT (CHAWNER) 1887-1915 BROOKS, CLEANTH 1906-1994
Extractions: Links to Chopin Sites Links to Works Major Works Biography Chopin, Kate (1850-1904), American writer, known for her depictions of culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and of women's struggles for freedom. Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton trader, and moved with him to New Orleans. After a business failure, the family moved to a plantation near Cloutierville, Louisiana, where her husband died in 1882. In 1884 Chopin returned to St. Louis with her six children. There she maintained a literary salon and began her writing career. For more than a decade following her first published story in 1889, Chopin depicted the manners, customs, speech, and surroundings of Louisiana's Creole and Cajun residents. Two collections of her short fiction were published in the 1890s: Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Both works were well-received as examples of "local-color" literature and helped establish Chopin's reputation as a major contributor to Southern regional literature. Chopin also produced a substantial body of poetry, reviews, and criticism. As her later stories, such as "The Story of an Hour," began to emphasize women's need for independence and capacity for passion, editors became less receptive to her work.
Dr. Anne Simpson's Author Links - C 13401400). Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), GK Chesterton (1874-1936),Kate O'Flaherty Chopin (1851-1904). Marcus Tullius Cicero http://www.csupomona.edu/~absimpson/links/authorlinks/simplinkauc.html
Year By Year C Chopin, Kate (18511904) American writer and poet. As Kate O'Flaherty, married OscarChopin, a Creole cotton trader, and went to live in New Orleans. http://www.yearbyyear.fsnet.co.uk/c.htm
Extractions: French soldier and colonialist. Born in Gascony, he served in America and became commander of the post at Mackinac (1694). In pursuit of personal gain and to further the French fur trade in North America, he acquired a land grant. With around one hundred French soldiers and settlers, he founded a civil settlement called Ville d'Etroit (1701), which became the city of Detroit. He was later governor of Louisiana (1713-16). Campbell, Roy South African poet and satirist. Born in Durban. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he became an admirer of all things Spanish and fought for Franco in the Civil War. Some of his work was pro-fascist. Went to England in 1918 and in 1924 published the highly acclaimed The Flaming Terrapin , an allegory on the story of the Flood. He died in a car crash in Portugal.
KATE C 18511904. Kate Chopin Lifeline. February 8, 1850- birth of Catherine O'FlahertyNovember 1, 1855- death of father, Thomas O'Flaherty, in railroad accident 1867 http://www.govst.edu/users/gddcasey/english/fall2000/KATECPurple.html
Extractions: "Having a group of people at my disposal, I thought it might be entertaining (to myself) to throw them together and see what would happen. I never dreamed of Mrs. Pontellier making such a mess of things and working out her own damnation as she did. If I had the slightest intimation of such a thing, I would have excluded her from the company. But when I found out what she was up to, the play was half over, and it was then too late." -Kate Chopin's response to the controversy surrounding "The Awakening" Grand Isle
Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Kate Chopin - Author Page Kate Chopin (18511904) Critics hardly knew what to do about the work of Kate Chopin,author of some of Thomas and Eliza (Faris) O'Flaherty, Chopin grew up http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_ninet
Extractions: The daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Faris) O'Flaherty, Chopin grew up in a wealthy Roman Catholic family in St. Louis. She graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in 1868 and on June 9, 1870, married Oscar Chopin, a French Creole businessman from Louisiana. During the next nine years, Chopin bore six children and fulfilled heavy social obligations as the wife of a seemingly successful New Orleans cotton broker. But in 1879 Oscar's business failed and the family moved from New Orleans to Cloutierville, where they operated a plantation store and a farm owned by Oscar's family. On December 10, 1882, Oscar died, leaving Kate a thirty-two-year-old widow with six children and limited financial resources. In 1884 she moved her family back to St. Louis, where she lived the rest of her life. In 1889, already thirty-nine years old, Chopin began writing poetry and fiction. Only a decade later, she had published twenty poems, ninety-five short stories, two novels, one play, and eight essays of literary criticism. Her fiction is, without question, her best work. She set most of her stories in late-nineteenth-century Louisiana, and she portrayed characters from all social classes of her time and placearistocratic Creoles, middle- and lower-class Acadians and "Americans," mulattoes, and blacks. Her stories explore relationships among these various classes and, especially, relationships between men and women.
Kalaidjian/Roof/Watt, Understanding Literature, 1/e - Fiction Kate Chopin (18511904) During her lifetime and long afterward, Kate Chopin's storiesdefied critics' notions about Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. http://college.hmco.com/english/kalaidjian/understanding_lit/1e/students/fiction
Extractions: Even when the narrator of a story presents himself or herself as the story's author, the narrator is really a persona, or voice, within the story. This persona is produced through a combination of elements, such as the words the narrator chooses ( diction ), the manner of speech the narrator employs ( style ), the kinds of events and characteristics the narrator describes, and the amount of overt comment the narrator adds. All of these elements characterize the narrator, giving him or her specific and traceable attributes. Narrators are always constructions in a text, even in an autobiography with the narrator represented as a real, living person writing about actual historical events. This is because crafting any kind of narrative requires that certain events, details, feelings, and so on be omitted. At the same time, other qualities are emphasized or altered, making any narrative voice a fabrication rather than an exact reflection of the "real" thing. The idea of the narrator as a construction is important because it reminds us that like other formal elements of fiction, the narrator is an effect of artful choices and should be analyzed in relation to the story's other elements. There is no such thing as a second-person narrator. Even if a story directly addresses the reader as "you," the narrator doing the addressing is an implied first person narrator. No matter whether the narrator is first person or third person, a speaking "I" is always implied. The only difference is that with a first-person narrator, the "I" is in the story. All narratives have narrators. The very fact of speaking implies a speaker, even if the speaker is represented in no other way. No matter how minimally such a narrator is made present, it is still characterized by the ways it narrates.
WIC - February Birthdate Calendar POLIO CUTAILED HER CAREER. LANA TURNER1920-ACTRESS. Kate O'Flaherty Chopin (1851-1904)NOVELIST, EARLY WRITER DEALING WITH FEMALE SEXUALITY. CONTROVERSIAL. http://www.wic.org/cal/feb_cal.htm
Extractions: WIC Main Page Biographies Words of Wisdom Newsletter ... Living Legacy Awards HATTIE WYATT CARAWAY (1878-1950)-POLITICIAN, TEACHER:FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED TO U.S. SENATE, TWICE RE-ELECTED HILDEGARDE-1906-SINGER, PERSONALITY NELL GWYN [ELEANOR GWUN] (1650-1687) ACTRESS. LEADING COMEDIENNE OF THE KING'S COMPANY. MISTRESS OF CHARLES II. BETTY FIELD (1918-72) ACTRESS ELAINE STRICH-1925-ACTRESS FARAH FAWCETT-1947-ACTRESS ELIZABETH BLACKWELL (1821-1910)-PHYSICIAN-FIRST WOMAN TO GAIN M.D. IN U.S., FOUNDED LONDON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOR WOMEN, 1875. SIMONE WEIL (1909-1943) PHILOSOPHER, HUMANITARIAN, WRITER EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1982-1950), POET GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)-WRITER, POLITICAL AND LITERARY ACTIVIST, NOVELIST MORGAN FAIRCHILD-1950-ACTRESS BLYTHE DANNER-1943-ACTRESS ROSA PARKS-1913-CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, BROKE THE BUSING LAW FOR BLACKS IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, WHICH SIGNALED THE BLACK RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN US. IDA LUPINO-1918-ACTRESS CONSTANCE GORE-BOOTH MARKIEWICY (1868-1927)-IRISH PATRIOT AND PLAYWRIGHT. FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO BRITISH PARLIAMENT
Chopin, Kate Chopin, Kate (18511904). American writer, known struggles for freedom. Chopinwas born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1870 she http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/chopinkate/1.h
Extractions: American writer, known for her depictions of culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and of women's struggles for freedom. Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton trader, and moved with him to New Orleans. After a business failure, the family moved to a plantation near Cloutierville, Louisiana, where her husband died in 1882. In 1884 Chopin returned to St. Louis with her six children. There she maintained a literary salon and began her writing career. For more than a decade following her first published story in 1889, Chopin depicted the manners, customs, speech, and surroundings of Louisiana's Creole and Cajun residents. Two collections of her short fiction were published in the 1890s: Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Both works were well-received as examples of "local-color" literature and helped establish Chopin's reputation as a major contributor to Southern regional literature. Chopin also produced a substantial body of poetry, reviews, and criticism. As her later stories, such as "The Story of an Hour," began to emphasize women's need for independence and capacity for passion, editors became less receptive to her work. Chopin published a novel, At Fault, in 1890 at her own expense. Several publishers rejected her second novel, and she destroyed the manuscript. The Awakening (1899), the novel now considered her masterpiece, attracted a storm of negative criticism for its lyrical depiction of a woman's developing independence and sensuality. Subsequently, her editors suspended publication of her third collection of stories, A Vocation and a Voice. The collection was not published until 1991. As a result of the negative criticism and social ostracism that followed The Awakening, Chopin produced few additional writings, and over the next half-century her work became obscure. It was rediscovered in the 1960s.
Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty. 18511904, American author, b. St. Louis. OfCreole-Irish descent, she married (1870) a Louisiana businessman http://www.slider.com/enc/11000/Chopin_Kate_O'Flaherty.htm
Extractions: Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty 1851-1904, American author, b. St. Louis. Of Creole-Irish descent, she married (1870) a Louisiana businessman and lived with him in Natchitoches parish and New Orleans. In these places she acquired an intimate knowledge of Creole and Cajun life, upon which she was to draw in many of her stories. After her husband's death in 1883, she returned with their six children to St. Louis and there began to write. Two collections of tales, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), earned her a reputation as a local colorist, but her novel The Awakening (1899) caused a storm of criticism because of its treatment of feminine sexuality. In depicting objectively a woman's confused groping toward self-understanding and self-acceptance, Chopin seemed to threaten the mores of her time although she did not explicitly attack them. Largely ignored for the next 60 years, her work is now praised for its literary merit as well as for its remarkable independence of mind and feeling. See her complete works, edited by Per Seyersted (2 vol., 1969); Thomas Bonner, Jr.
Stories, Listed By Author Chopin, Kate (O'Flaherty) (18511904) Her Letters, (ss) Vogue, 1895 Lying Cheating Stealing, ed. Sara Nicklès, San Francisco, CA Chronicle Books, 1997. http://contento.best.vwh.net/mags/s21.html
Extractions: What's In A Name, (cl) Murderous Intent Sum '97 Noir Lite, (ss) EQMM Jan '99 CHIZMAR, RICHARD T(homas) A Capital Cat Crime, (ss) Danger in D.C. A Crime of Passion, (ss) Gauntlet Homesick, (ss) Midnight Promises , Gauntlet Publications, 1996 Like Father, Like Son, (ss) EQMM Mar '97 Midnight Promises, (ss) Midnight Promises , Gauntlet Publications, 1996 The Season of Giving (with Norman Partridge ), (ss)
Index Stories, Listed By Author, Part 2 CHIZMAR, RICHARD T(homas) (1965 ); Chopin, Kate (O'Flaherty) (1851-1904);CHRISTENSEN, CAROL, trans. CHRISTENSEN, THOMAS, trans. http://contento.best.vwh.net/mags/q2.html
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