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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.
Vogue [1] " 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 title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments ...
Kate Chopin (/ ˈʃoʊpæn /, [1][2] also US: / ʃoʊˈpæn, ˈʃoʊpən /; [3] born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 [4] – August 22, 1904) [5] was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars [6] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or ...
An Egyptian Cigarette. " An Egyptian Cigarette " [1] is a short story written by Kate Chopin, first published in April 1900 in Vogue 15. It is about an experience induced by a powerful cigarette, leading the narrator to have a disturbing dream in which her lover abandons her.
Magazine. Publication date. September 1897. " A Pair of Silk Stockings " is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin. The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children.
1969. Chronology. At the Cadian Ball. —. " The Storm " is a short story written by the American writer Kate Chopin in 1898. The story takes place during the 19th century in the South of the United States, where storms are frequent and dangerous. It did not appear in print in Chopin's lifetime, but it was published in The Complete Works of ...
Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, is a literary example of the angel in the house. Another example is in the What Katy Did novels of Susan Coolidge, about a pre-pubescent tomboy who becomes a paraplegic. They are based on her own life in 19th-century America.
The Emulation, Sarah Fyge (1719) The Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) [18] Letters from a Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, Mary Leapor (1763) Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published.