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You should be able to find a copy of this book through any good library or bookstore.
Emily Toth writes: “I don’t know if anyone’s checked Irish baptismal records for Thomas O’Flaherty family. After the war, Kitty returned and she and Chopin were friends until Kitty entered Sacred Heart as a nun.
To support herself and her young family, she began to write. Oscar joined the notorious White League, a Democratic group that in 1874 had a violent confrontation with Republican Radicals, causing President Grant to send in federal troops.
But New Orleans also offered superb music at the French Opera House, along with fine theatre, horse races, and, of course, Mardi Gras.
Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.
By the Editors of KateChopin.org
Kate Chopin’s short stories were well received in her own time and were published by some of America’s most prestigious magazines—Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Young People, Youth’s Companion, and the Century.
Critics and scholars in many countries have discussed her work in over 400 journal articles as well as in at least 60 books and 160 PhD dissertations. Emily Toth earlier published a longer biography, Kate Chopin (New York: Morrow, 1990).
An important biography is the one referred to above, Per Seyersted’s Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969).
Also important is Daniel Rankin’s Kate Chopin and Her Creole Stories (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932; available now through Google Books).
Her 1894 comment about the importance of describing “human existence in its subtle, complex, true meaning, stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it” and her conviction that “truth rests upon a shifting basis and is apt to be kaleidoscopic” are helpful points of reference in approaching Kate Chopin’s work.
In 1895 Chopin wrote “Athénaïse” and “Fedora,” and twelve of her stories were published.
She won medals, was elected into the elite Children of Mary Society, and delivered the commencement address. Most of what has been written about Kate Chopin since 1969 is feminist in nature or is focused on women’s positions in society. Kenneth Eble published an article about her in 1956, and, in his introduction to a paperback edition of The Awakeningin 1964, he speaks of Chopin’s “underground imagination”–“the imaginative life which seems to have gone on from early childhood somewhat beneath and apart from her well-regulated actual existence.”
George Arms a few years later writes that in her work Kate Chopin “presents a series of events in which the truth is present, but with a philosophical pragmatism she is unwilling to extract a final truth.
Kate's grandmother died three days before Christmas in 1863, the same year Kitty was banished. It is possible he represented Kate at some time.
I hope this information sheds some light on Kate’s friends.
Pamela Clark
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1882 Oscar dies of malaria, leaving Kate with a heavy debt and six young boys.
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Biography of Kate Chopin
by Neal Wyatt
Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850 to Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty.
1899 The Awakening published by Herbert S. Stone and Company on April 22. She was something of a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity.
That quest ended in an abrupt and frustrated manner when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage on August 22 1904.
1885 Her mother dies. Her son was traveling with her at this time as he is listed on the ship’s manifest. Mobry's Reason" and "A Shameful Affair," which are published in the New Orleans Times-Democrat in 1893.
Twenty-six of her stories are children’s stories—those published in or intended for children’s or family magazines—the Youth’s Companion and others.