... re-married, she did not see a need for female dependency on a man. She was raised and educated by women. Even her marriage to Oscar Chopin did not change her views as he allowed her be herself and express her views as she pleases. She even gave her kids as much ... subjects such as divorce and female sexuality. Chopin grew up in a wealthy family in St. Louis. She married Oscar Chopin in the 1870's after graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Oscar and Kate had six children over the course of nine years. The family moved to onto a plantation in Louisiana ... to operate a farm...

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• Grade Level: High School

... relationships and emotions she garnered from these women helped lay the foundations for some of American 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 ... "[ ]an exemplary wife" (Bloom 11), and her daughter is quoted later as saying she was ""Lady Bountiful of the neighborhood"" (Bloom 11). By 1879, Kate and Oscar had had five children, all boys, an...

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• Grade Level: High School

... very popular in St. Louis high society. She also became interested in the movement for women's suffrage although she never became very politically active. When she was nineteen, she married Oscar Chopin, a twenty-five-year-old French-Creole businessman. They moved to New Orleans, and later to Cloutierville, in north central Louisiana. Kate and ... Oscar were very happy together and soon they were a part of the high society. Oscar tolerated Kate's "unconventional" ways, even though relatives warned him not to. Oscar treated her as an intellectual equal and didn't seem to mind that she sm...

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... in St. Louis Missouri (Hoffman 1). Kate Chopin was only married once, and it was to Oscar Chopin, a prosperous cotton farmer. The two were married one June 9, 1870, after a yearlong courtship. Kate and Oscar had six children, five boys and one girl. Jean was born in 1871, Oscar Jr. in 1873, George in 1874, Frederick in 1876, Felix in 1878 and Lelia in 1879 ... (Hoffman 1-2). When his cotton business failed they moved to Cloutierville, a small town in Louisiana. They were married for 12 ½ years. In 1882 Oscar died of Malaria, and Kate raised the children on her own ... . Two years after ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... well as refining Chopin's abilities as a writer (Unger 200). On June 9, 1870, Kate O"Flaherty was married to Oscar Chopin in Louisiana. As a worker at a nearby cotton factory Oscar provided well for his wife and six children. Their marriage lasted for twelve wonderful years until Oscar became ill and died of swamp fever in December of 1882 (Koloski 93). Chopin remained in Louisiana for ... ...

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... , to be taught by nuns known for their intelligence. That was yet another phase in her life dominated by feminine influence. In 1870, at age twenty, Kate wed her husband, Oscar Chopin. He loved Kate, and permitted her to have many freedoms other women did not enjoy (The Awakening-Kate Chopin). Her independence may have been what attracted ... Kate. That can be assumed since he allowed her to be so independent, a thing many husbands of the time did not allow. Twelve years after marriage, Oscar died, leaving Kate with six children and much debt. She then started to write to earn money, the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a Commonplace Book, which is the first document of Kate's writings. This Commonplace Book became a diary of her intellectual and social life. At the age of 19, Kate met Louisiana native Oscar Chopin, age 25, son of a wealthy cotton growing family. They married on June 9, 1870. The couple established their new home in New Orleans. They shared the births of six children ... together. When Oscar's brokerage business failed in 1879, he decided to move north to his family's plantations in Natchitoches Parish, and it was then that Kate became acquainted with the Creole community that ... bec...

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... her mother and considered her "A woman of great beauty, intelligence, and personal magnetism" (Seyersted 14). Growing up around independent women, however, did not dissuade her from marriage. Her marriage to Oscar Chopin by all accounts was a happy one. Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother, Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans ... of her writings were based here. Chopin continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3). Oscar Chopin died while their youngest ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... was forced to reshape her concept of herself and her world. In June, 1868, Kate graduated from the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. In June, 1870, Kate married Oscar Chopin of New Orleans, a Creole cotton broker. During the 1870s Kate bore six children and fulfilled the social regulations of a prominent young wife. In 1872 ... , Oscar died suddenly, leaving Kate to raise six children on her own. Kate moved back to St. Louis to be with her family in 1884, but soon after her mother died, ... ...

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... Heart but continued writing. Her first known writing is a journal she named the Commonplace Book, which she wrote in through-out her young life. On June 9, 1870, Kate O"Flaherty married Oscar Chopin of Louisiana in St. Louis. After a three month European honeymoon, the newlywed Chopin's returned to New Orleans, Chopin's new home, and shortly thereafter on May 22, 1871, she gave ... , a son. Five other children followed: four boys and one girl. Soon after the birth of her fifth child in 1878, Chopin and her family moved to Cloutierville, Louisiana. Just when Oscar Chopin's business began ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... settlers, and Irish immigrants. She was well educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis and graduated 1868, following her father's accidental death. In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, and the new couple moved to Louisiana, which became the setting for many of her short stories. In New Orleans, she brings to life the Louisiana setting, and the ... independence. In the story the main character, Paula Von Stoltz, who is a successful pianist, reject an offer of marriage to pursue her passion in life, music. In 1882, Chopin's husband, Oscar, dies from swamp fever. She returns t...

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... in the catholic school Sacred Heart in 1864 and graduated in 1868. She was married the same year of her graduation at the age of 19 to a Creole cotton trader, Oscar Chopin. She was viewed by society at her young age as being beautiful, fun intelligent and clever. She and her family lived in a typical New Orleans home. In 1879 ... , Oscar's business failed, and the family moved to a Louisiana plantation called Nachitoches. The widowed Chopin moved back to St. Louis with her six children in 1882 because of her husband's death ... ...

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... across a newly built bridge, when it collapsed. She was raised by her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, all of whom were widows. After a few years as a society belle, she married Oscar Chopin in 1870, the son of a wealthy cotton farmer in Louisiana. They had much in common including the ability to speak French and a casual disregard of their Catholic upbringings. They ... Orleans and vacationed on the Grand Isle like the characters in The Awakening. By 1879, she had given birth to 6 children. In that year, after years of failure in business, Oscar moved the family to his old h...

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... age, she was against the idea of it being a man's world women were just there to please them and do as they say. At the age of 19 she married Oscar Chopin and moved to Louisiana where she spent the remainder of her life. Written in 1899 and set in the late 1800s The Awakening focuses itself on an upper-middle ... ...

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... that her husband had died in a traffic accident. Kate Chopin makes a very interesting connection with the feelings of the woman. Since Chopin had become a widow at a very young age too. Oscar Chopin, her husband, died in December of 1882 when she was only 32 years old leaving her alone and a businesswoman. Irony is introduced in the story from the very beginning ... ...

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... from 1851 until 1904. She was born Katherine O'Flaherty and was raised in post- Civil War St. Louis by parents who were on the upper end of society. She married Oscar Chopin, moved to New Orleans, and had six children. After her husband died, Chopin moved back to St. Louis to start her writing career at age 33. She incorporated many ... ...

• Word Count: 1280
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• Grade Level: High School