... Literature's most colorful and controversial stories. In 1870, Kate met and married Oscar Chopin, a Creole New Orleans native. Oscar was a cotton grower, and he and Kate spent the first 9 years of their marriage living and working on his cotton farm. Kate Chopin was, according to Harold Bloom, throughout her marriage "[ ]an exemplary wife" (Bloom 11), and her daughter is quoted later ... Chopin was thirty nine when she published her first story, At Fault, in 1889, and wrote her last novel, The Awakening, in 1897. During that period she wrote over one hundred and fifty poems, essays, sh...

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