KATE CHOPIN

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

Katherine O'Flaherty ( February 8 of 1850 - August 22 of 1904 ), better known as Kate Chopin, author was a U.S. of short stories and novels . He wrote The Awakening (The Awakening) and The Story of an Hour and The Storm, among other works. (Rankin, 1932)

Kate O'Flaherty was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri , United States . His father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was a wealthy businessman who had emigrated from Galway, Ireland . His mother, Eliza Faris, was faithful adept at French Creole community, and his maternal grandmother, Athénaïs Charleville was also descent gala . Chopin's father died in 1855 , when she was only five years. As founder of the Pacific Railway, was aboard the maiden voyage when a bridge over the Gasconade River collapsed. Thomas ranks among the victims. That same year, Kate joined the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart (Academy of the Sacred Heart of San Luis). The death of his father brought the young Kate to develop a close relationship with her mother and grandmother. He also became an avid reader of fairy tales, poetry, religious allegories, as well as classic and contemporary novels. Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens were among his favorite authors. (Rankin, 1932) The year 1863 was very bad for the author's family: his grandmother died, like his half-brother George. As a Confederate soldier, died of typhoid fever while he was held as a prisoner of war . Kate soon left regular education and even more in the cloistered atmosphere of the reading. In 1865 , he returned to formal education, returning finally to the Sacred Heart Academy. He started using a book in common use. He graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1868 , but there was no particular distinction, except as ...