Author Kate Chopin, who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Realism period. Particularly, in her work titled “The Blind Man”, written in 1897 we can evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Realist movement which was extant in American letters between 1850 and 1900. As a representative of such a movement, Kate Chopin then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of her time. Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis Missouri. She died August 22, 1904 in St. Louis Missouri. Her parents were Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. She was the third child of five. Her sisters died and infancy. And her step brothers from her father’s first marriage died in their early twenties. …show more content…
Her father died two months after she was sent to the boarding school in a train accident. After her father died she lived with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother at home which were all widows. During this time her great grandmother taught her French, Music, and the gossip on St. Louis. After the two years passed she returned to The Sacred Heart Academy. She was top of her class; she won medals, she was elected into the elite Children of Mary Society, and delivered the commencement address. She had one close female friend named Kitty Garesche. She grew up during the civil war, which separated her and her friend Kitty. After the war was over they reunited again until Kitty became a nun in The Sacred Hearts Academy. Her half-brother died in the war of typhoid fever and in 1863 her grandmother died three days before Christmas. These Rebecca Gutierrez 1 st Block experiences combined with her father’s death 8 years ago created a strong doubt of religion in Kate. When she turned twenty in 1870 she married a twenty-five year old man named Oscar Chopin. They lived in New Orleans where they had five boys and two girls. She had all her children before she was 28 years old. Her husband Oscar was the son of a wealthy
closest to her. After her only brother died she tried to please her father by
Wyatt, Neal "Biography of Kate Chopin" English 384: Women Writers. Ed. Ann M. Woodlief Copyright: 1998, Virginia Commonwealth University. (26 Jan. 1999) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/katebio.htm
On February 8, 1851, Katherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Kate was born to the parents of Thomas O’Flaherty and Eliza Faris. Her father was a wealthy Irish immigrant and a successful businessman. Sadly, Kate’s father died in a railway accident when she was only four years old. Kate’s childhood was influenced mostly by her mother and great-grandmother. Kate spent much time with her family’s Creole and mulatto slaves, becoming familiar with their dialects. She attended Sacred Heart convent where she was a very poor student, but an avid reader. At the age of eleven Kate’s great-grandmother as well as her half-brother died. These two deaths caused Kat...
Kate Chopin was born February 8, 1850 in St. Louis. She was raised by a single woman; this impacted her views in the family at an early age. She began her own family at a young age; Kate had a different method compare too many women in her time. As time progressed, she developed a bad habit of dressing inappropriately. Soon she started to publish stories about the experiences and stories of her interests such as women’s individuality and miserable
University of Paris). The only problem now was that she had no money to get
Once she was of age to leave her home she did. Her mother was ok with her decision to join the sisterhood for she was very much into the church and believed in helping others. In 1928 she finally decided to leave her home to join the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland, she was eighteen years old(“Mother”). Sisters of Loreto mission was in Ireland but had other missions in other parts of the world. W...
This author was born Katherine (Kate) O’Flaherty Chopin in February of 1850 to a father of Irish descent and a Creole (French settlers of the southern United States, esp. Louisiana) mother (Guilds 293). Chopin was a bicultural mixture of strength. Due to measures beyond her control, she grows up in a life surrounded by strong willed women. These ladies were passionate women Chopin loved and respected; her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. They each added their individual spice of life to a brew of pure womanhood. Thus, seasoning a woman that would become one of the most influential, controversial female authors in American history. Kate Chopin created genuine works exposing the innermost conflicts women of the late 1800’s were experiencing. The heroines of her fictional stories were strong, yet confused, women searching for a meaning behind the spirit that penetrated their very souls.
Kate Chopin, a prolific writer of the late 1800’s, was actually not a native of the culture of which she’s famous for depicting. Born and raised in Missouri, she married a native of Louisiana, Cajun-born Oscar Chopin, who whisked her away to Natchitoches, Louisiana, where she became engrossed in southern life and living. This inspired much of the literature she produced throughout her career, even though she wrote most of it while living is St. Louis, Missouri, following the death of her dear husband in 1882. She began writing as a way to support her family, and was successful in publishing a myriad of literature, including short stories, novels, and magazine scripts (Wyatt).
left China in 1944. Her mother was married to another man at the time and had two twin
cared and loved her and at the age of 16 the family had to move away
On 9 June 1870, two years after graduating from the Academy, Kate married Oscar Chopin, the son of a planter from Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. They were married for twelve and a half years, spending nine in New Orleans and three in Cloutierville, Natchitoches Parish. During this time, Kate gave birth to five boys and one girl. "Devoting herself to her family and household, she still managed to reconcile the needs of her own being with the expectations of her conventional milieu. She dressed unconventionally and smoked cigarettes long before smoking was an approved practice among women in her class" (Inge, 91). When Oscar died of malaria in 1882, he left Kate twelve thousand ...
As time passed she grew older and wiser. She graduated high school and began working several jobs. Attending college was never a thought in her mind. She married young and moved on with her life. Eventually she became pregnant again, but this time she was ready. By now God had strengthened her life. She believed in him and sought is will. She had been given a second chance. To this day my mother is a strong and charismatic woman, full of God's love and joy for life.
Alabama. She spent her next 4 years of college at the University of Alabama, one of
death of a mother when she was very young and the death of her two
schools yet again to St. Margaret Mary Catholic School, where she spent three years. Her first