KateChopin

=//~ __Kate Chopin~__//= =(1851-1904)= = = == __**Personal Life**__ Kate Chopin was born Febuary 8, 1851 in St. Louis Missouri as Kate O'Flaherty by her mother and father Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty. Her parents had five children and she was the third born, her sisters died in infancy and her brothers are from her fathers first marriage. She was only child that lived past the age of twenty five. She was sent to a borading school at the age of five. Her father was killed two months later by a train. Her great grandmother taught her French music. Kate Chopin was an american author of short stories and novels. She mostly did //Louisana creole// background. In the 19th century she was a forerunner of the feminist writers. During 1889 through 1902 she wrote short stories for both children and adults which was published in magazines like the Atlantic Monthly Voque, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion __**Major works**__ //Bayou Folk (1894) At Fault (1890) The Awakening (1899) The Gentlemen from New Orleans (1990) A Night In Acadie (1897)// __**Period and/or Style** Realism__ Women rights and issues
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