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From 1892 to 1895, she wrote short stories for both children and
adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic,
Monthly and The Century. Her major works were two short story
collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Bayou
Folk was her first collection of short story. Her important short
stories included Desirees Baby, a tale of miscegenation in
antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893); The Story of An Hour
(1894). Chopin also wrote two novels, At Fault (1890) and The
Awakening (1899). Many of her works are set in Natchitoches in
north central Louisiana.
In 1915, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, "some of Chopin's work is
equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in
America what may be described as a native aptitude for
narration amounting almost to genius."
Chopin can be described as a very creative person that she
had a very good technique on writing. She also had an ability
to perceive life and put it down on paper creativity. She put
much concentration and emphasis on women's lives and their
continual struggles to create an identity of their own within
the boundaries of the patriarchy.
SOME OF HER WORKS
Bayou Folk
A Night In Acadie
The Storm
The Story of an Hour
Desiree Baby
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Athenaise
At the Cadian Ball
Lilacs
A Respectable Woman
The Unexpected
NOVELS
At Fault (Nixon Jones Printing Co, [St. Louis], 1890)
The Awakening (H.S. Stone, 1899)
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Chopin
KATE CHOPIN
Real name:
Katherine OFlaherty

Born:
February 8, 1851
St Louis, Missouri, US

Died:
August 22, 1904 (aged 53)

Occupation:
Novelist and short stories
author
(She considered as a
forerunner of feminist
authors of the 20
th
century)

Graduated:
Scared Heart Academy,1868
(but did not achive any
particular distinction)

Father:
Thomas OFlaherty
Successful businessman

Mother:
Eliza Faris
Well-connected memberof
the French community in
St.Louis

Grandmother:
Athenaise Charleville
(French Canadian descent)

Chopin closed with her
mother, grandmother and
her great-mother after her
father died on 1855.