Kate Chopin was a writer that spent much of her career examining the identities, roles, and choices of women. ... In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin's main focus is Mrs. ... Why might Kate Chopin have such strong opinions concerning women and independence? ... In 1870, at age twenty, Kate wed her husband, Oscar Chopin. He loved Kate, and permitted her to have many freedoms other women did not enjoy (The Awakening-Kate Chopin). ...

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Kate Chopin: A Woman Ahead of Her Time The works of European writers, her family background, and regional geography has had an obvious influence in Kate Chopin's major works as well as her life experiences. Chopin, whose fame came years after her death, was once described as "A woman ahead of her time" ("Kate"1-2). ... As one critic points out, "The nuns taught Kate to live a life of the mind as well as the life of the home" ("Kate" 3). ... On June 9, 1870, Kate O"Flaherty was married to Oscar Chopin in Louisiana. ... Women were becoming more independent and read her works as a source o...

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Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about the woman's place in society were Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. ... Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. ... Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman had very different views on women's sexuality. ... For Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, art is work because it is both difficult labor and "one's true vocation," the idea that was not very common among nineteenth century women. ... Kate Chopin ...

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Virginia Woolf used the pretense of universality in her writing as a front for her struggle for women's liberty. Despite her rejection of the feminist label, Virginia Woolf's goal in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway was to fight for feminist causes, not universal equality. "It seems to ...

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