Kate Chopin (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Kate O’Flaherty Chopin was born into a wealthy Catholic family in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Her mother, Eliza Fans, was from an aristocratic French-Creole family, and her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who became a prominent merchant in St. Louis. After her father died in 1855, Kate was raised at home, among three generations of strong-willed and self-sufficient female relatives who undoubtedly influenced her attitudes about women.
On June 9, 1870, two years after graduating from a St. Louis convent school, Kate married...
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