... her life, and often had femme fatales, suicides and socially shocking themes as the basis for her novels. Kate 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, short stories and novels (Toth 245-255). By ... far her most controversial novel was The Awakening. This book dealt with "[ ]conflicts raging inside of wives and mothers[ ]" (Skaggs 113), and of a young women's "[ ]sexual awakening and exploration." (Bloom 13 ... went out of her ho...

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