Kate Chopin’s life started on February 8, 1851, she was born to Thomas and Eliza O’ Flaherty. Being one of four children, Kate’s family was a wealthy, Catholic, slave owing family in St. Louis. Thomas O’ Flaherty, Kate’s father, an Irish immigrant, was a successful business merchant who died in a train accident in 1855. After her father’s sudden death, Kate was raised by her mother and grandmother who moved the family and raised them with their French-Creole background. Kate’s mothered never remarried and Kate would eventually be enthralled by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother storytelling. Kate mother later died in 1885.
Kate attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart. The Civil War caused Kate to be in and out of school, being …show more content…
They moved to New Orleans as a married couple and had six children together birthing their first child in 1871. Oscar soon became a cotton agent selling cotton for plantation owners to buyers. His business would eventually slow down and the Chopin family relocated to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In the biography, A life of the author of The Awakening, written By Emily Toth, Toth revealed that Kate Chopin had a lover named Albert Sampite. (Tucker 105)
She (Emily Toth) discovered unknown facts that Chopin’s two previous biographies had overlooked. One of the most interesting was that of Chopin’s lover, Albert Sampite. Toth asserts that Sampite is the man behind the Characters of Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun, Edna’s lover in The Awakening, and other passionate men in her …show more content…
While she received praise for the controversial novel, Kate received more bad than good reviews. Critics were outraged saying the novel was “pornographic and immoral.” (Galens 256). Kate didn’t recover from the bad publicity her novel received and never published again although she continued to write. Kate Chopin’s work would be forgotten for many years but soon resurfaced and even be taught in universities. Kate died in 1904 from a brain hemorrhage after attending the county fair that she was excited about. Kate Chopin “is now seen as a pioneer of both American realism and feminist consciousness. To a degree that was ahead of her time, she rejected both conservative and liberal didacticism and discarded traditional assumptions in an attempt to depict honestly and empathetically the inner life of women,”
Kate attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart. The Civil War caused Kate to be in and out of school, being …show more content…
They moved to New Orleans as a married couple and had six children together birthing their first child in 1871. Oscar soon became a cotton agent selling cotton for plantation owners to buyers. His business would eventually slow down and the Chopin family relocated to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In the biography, A life of the author of The Awakening, written By Emily Toth, Toth revealed that Kate Chopin had a lover named Albert Sampite. (Tucker 105)
She (Emily Toth) discovered unknown facts that Chopin’s two previous biographies had overlooked. One of the most interesting was that of Chopin’s lover, Albert Sampite. Toth asserts that Sampite is the man behind the Characters of Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun, Edna’s lover in The Awakening, and other passionate men in her …show more content…
While she received praise for the controversial novel, Kate received more bad than good reviews. Critics were outraged saying the novel was “pornographic and immoral.” (Galens 256). Kate didn’t recover from the bad publicity her novel received and never published again although she continued to write. Kate Chopin’s work would be forgotten for many years but soon resurfaced and even be taught in universities. Kate died in 1904 from a brain hemorrhage after attending the county fair that she was excited about. Kate Chopin “is now seen as a pioneer of both American realism and feminist consciousness. To a degree that was ahead of her time, she rejected both conservative and liberal didacticism and discarded traditional assumptions in an attempt to depict honestly and empathetically the inner life of women,”