... 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" ( ... , 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, short stories and novels (Toth 245-255). By far her most controversial novel was The Awakening. This book dealt ... she herself was subject to personal insults a...

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