Kate Chopin

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Standard Name: Chopin, Kate
Birth Name: Catherine O'Flaherty
Nickname: Kate
Married Name: Catherine Chopin
Considered a St Louis writer of local colour for much of her career, KC attracted such notoriety following the publication of her novel The Awakening and its subsequent canonization by feminist critics that this work has overshadowed her other literary productions. Nonetheless, Chopin's output was diverse: in a decade-and-a-half she wrote translations, novels, poetry, almost one hundred short stories and sketches, and at least one musical score.
Sepia head-and-shoulders photo of Kate Chopin, taken from behind but showing her face in profile. Her hair is in ringlets, some pinned to her head, some at her back. She is wearing a necklace and earrings of dark stones, and a dress with lace collar.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Harding Davis
Jean Pfaelzer has admired its world of complex moral choices.
Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press.
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As an ambitious but weak man who is easily tempted by social pressures,Pfaelzer argues that Andross prefigures characters such as William Dean Howells
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's story entitled The Story of an Hour (after a piece with the same title by Kate Chopin , as a variation on Chopin's theme) was read with other adaptations of the same kind...
Reception Willa Cather
This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary,
Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago.
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than which it...
Reception Sarah Orne Jewett
The Feminist Companion describes the novel as her masterpiece; realistic in style and innovative in form, it pursues the matriarchal theme explored in much of her work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The central character, a harried female writer, comes...

Timeline

26 September 1991: Elaine Showalter published Sister's Choice:...

Writing climate item

26 September 1991

Elaine Showalter published Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing , complement or sequel to her book of British women's literary history, A Literature of Their Own, 1977.

Texts

Toth, Emily, and Kate Chopin. “A New Biographical Approach”. The Awakening, edited by Margo Culley and Margo Culley, 2ndnd ed, W. W. Norton, 1994, pp. 113-19.
Chopin, Kate. A Night in Acadie. Way and Williams, 1897.
Chopin, Kate. A Night in Acadie. Garrett Press, 1968.
Chopin, Kate. A Vocation and a Voice: Stories. Editor Toth, Emily, Penguin Books, 1991.
Chopin, Kate. At Fault. Privately printed for the author by Nixon-Jones Printing, 1890.
Chopin, Kate. At Fault. Editors Green, Suzanne Disheroon and David J. Caudle, University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Green, Suzanne Disheroon et al. “Backgrounds and Contexts”. At Fault, edited by Suzanne Disheroon Green et al., University of Tennessee Press, 2001, pp. 159-76.
Culley, Margo, and Kate Chopin. “Criticism”. The Awakening, edited by Margo Culley and Margo Culley, 2ndnd ed, W. W. Norton, 1994, pp. 159-20.
Green, Suzanne Disheroon et al. “Introduction”. At Fault, edited by Suzanne Disheroon Green et al., University of Tennessee Press, 2001, p. xix - xxxii.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. H. S. Stone, 1899.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Editor Culley, Margo, W. W. Norton, 1994.
Chopin, Kate, and Kate Chopin. “The Storm”. The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, edited by Per Seyersted and Per Seyersted, Louisiana State University Press, 1969, pp. 592-6.