Kate Chopin (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Kate Chopin began writing in 1888, at the age of thirty-seven; even her early work is thus informed by a range of experience that shaped the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a host of convincing characters. The child of a prominent St. Louis family, she was reared in a privileged environment. From ages nine through seventeen, she was educated at an elite Catholic school. At nineteen, she married Oscar Chopin, a New Orleans banker seven years her senior.
Chopin was independent to a degree unusual for a woman of her time. Her diary, for example, records...
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