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Kate chopin biography by neal wyatt

          Biography of Kate Chopin by Neal Wyatt.!

          Kate Chopin (), often called one of the first feminist writers of the twentieth century, is best known for the novel The Awakening () and her.

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          5. Biography of Kate Chopin
          by Neal Wyatt

          Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850 to Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty. She was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers (from her father's first marriage) in their early twenties.

          She was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five.

          In 1855, at five and a half, she was sent to The Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic boarding school in St. Louis. Her father was killed two months later when a train on which he was riding crossed a bridge that collapsed.

          For the next two years she lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows.

          While Kate Chopin based many of her stories in Louisiana, she was actually born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a French mother and an Irish father.

          Her great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past. Kate O'Flaherty grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women. They were also savvy and came from a long line of ground breaking women Victoria's own m