Kate Chopin was a feminist in a place and time that wasn’t ready for feminism. Her 1899 novel, ... Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). ...

Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel The Awakening is revered for its realism and regularly ... were Bayou Folk (published in 1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). The Awakening, her second novel ...

Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" certainly wasn't that. Upon release, it caused an immediate outcry, and just as quickly, it vanished. It would be decades before Chopin's Louisiana-set saga was ...

Kate Chopin in 1899, the year in which "The Awakening" was published. A few years later, she moved to 4232 McPherson Avenue, where she died on Aug. 22, 1904, at age 54.