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When Oscar Chopin died in 1882, he left Kate $42,000 in debt (approximately $1.33 million in 2025 [16]). The scholar Emily Toth noted that "for a while the widow Kate ran his [Oscar's] business and flirted outrageously with local men; (she even engaged in a relationship with a married farmer)."
"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour".It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour".
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
In 1831, while in Paris, the 21-year-old Chopin had his first episode of hemoptysis (coughing up of blood). In 1835, he suffered a severe two-month bout of laryngitis and bronchitis, and the resulting interruption in his correspondence with Warsaw gave rise to gossip that he had died. [5] In his early youth, he treated himself with belladonna.
A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in ...
February 8 – Kate Chopin, American writer (died 1904) [23] February 24 – Mary De Morgan, English children's writer and suffragist (died 1907) February 27 –Laura E. Richards, American author (died 1943) March 26 – Edward Bellamy, American Utopian novelist and socialist (died 1898) [24]
Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, was extremely controversial when it was released in 1899. Some authors who have created characters that die by suicide have died by suicide themselves. Ernest Hemingway shot himself in 1961; Some of his short stories included suicidal themes.
Kate Chopin, writer (died 1904) [8] Charles Rockwell Lanman, Sanskrit scholar (died 1941) February 15 – Albert B. Cummins, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1908 to 1926 (died 1926) February 27 Henry E. Huntington, railroad pioneer and art collector (died 1927) Laura E. Richards, author (died 1943) March 9 – Daniel B. Towner, hymn composer (died ...