“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel The Awakening.
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culture · American author (1850–1904) · writer · novelist · translator · also Kate Chopin, Catherine O'Flaherty, Chopin
Born 8 February 1850 · Died 22 August 1904 · Q230476
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2026· 7 entries
“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'”
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“The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
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“I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.”
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“You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both”
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“And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.”
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“The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.”
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2012· 1 entry
Was commemorated with an iron bust of her head at the Writer's Corner in the Central West End neighborhood of St
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2008· 1 entry
The house was destroyed by a fire, with little left but the chimney
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1990· 1 entry
Chopin was honored with a star on the St
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1969· 1 entry
Seyersted published The Complete Works of Kate Chopin and a full-length biography
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1962· 1 entry
When noted literary critic Edmund Wilson included her as one of 30 authors discussed in Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
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1915· 1 entry
Fred Lewis Pattee wrote "some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America
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1911· 1 entry
Wrote in Reedy's Mirror: "To one who has read her as a boy and come back to her again with powers of appreciation more subtly developed, she breathes the magic of a whole chapter in his life
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1904· 2 entries
Died 1904-08-22.
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Chopin suffered a brain hemorrhage
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1900· 1 entry
Wrote "The Gentleman from New Orleans"
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1899· 2 entries
Her novel The Awakening is considered ahead of its time, garnering more negative reviews than positive from contemporary sources
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The Awakening, her second novel, was published
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1894· 1 entry
"The Story of an Hour" and "A Respectable woman" were published by Vogue
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1893· 1 entry
Wrote "Madame Célestin's Divorce", and 13 of her stories were published
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1892· 1 entry
Chopin produced "Désirée's Baby", "Ripe Figs", and "At the 'Cadian Ball", which appeared in Two Tales that year, and eight of her other stories were published
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1890· 1 entry
Her first novel, At Fault, about a young widow and the sexual constraints of women, was published privately
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1882· 1 entry
Left Kate $42,000 in debt (approximately $1
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1879· 1 entry
Oscar Chopin's cotton brokerage failed
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1870· 1 entry
Married Oscar Chopin and settled with him in his home town of New Orleans
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1850· 1 entry
Born 1850-02-08.
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