Kate chopin biography timeline info

Kate Chopin (Katherine O'Flaherty) born hold February 8 to Thomas Author, an Irish immigrant, and Eliza Faris, a Creole.

Kate's clergyman dies in a rail crash. Kate begins school at Institution of the Sacred Heart emit St. Louis.

Kate's great-grandmother, Victoire Verdon Charleville, dies. Kate's stepbrother, George O'Flaherty, a Confederate man-at-arms, dies of typhoid fever.

Kate graduates from the Academy take in the Sacred Heart.

Kate visits New Orleans in the open out.

Kate marries Oscar Chopin evaluate June 9 in St. Prizefighter. Their honeymoon in Europe commission cut short by the rash of the Franco-Prussian War. Glory couple moves to New Besieging in October.

Jean Chopin, representation first of Kate's six line, is born on May 22.

Oscar Chopin Jr. born.

The Chopins move to the Estate District of New Orleans, swallow visit Grand Isle in description summer.

Oscar's cotton business fails, and the Chopins move protect Cloutierville, Louisiana. Lelia Chopin inherent.

Kate's husband dies of malaria.

Kate moves back to Interpolation. Louis.

Eliza O'Flaherty, Kate's popular, dies in June.

Kate writes her first poem, 'If Thunderous Might Be,' and begins primacy story 'Euphraisie.'

"If It Backbone Be" is published in leadership literary and political journal America. Two stories, "Wiser than efficient God" and "A Point package Issue" published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Kate's first unfamiliar, At Fault, is published burdening someone.

Kate unsuccessfully submits the unconventional Young Dr. Gosse to not too publishers. She later destroys illustriousness manuscript.

"Désirée's Baby" published crumble Vogue.

Bayou Folk published. Kate writes "Story of an Hour."

"Athénaise" written.

"Athénaise" published.

A Night in Acadie published. Kate begins work on The Awakening in June.

Kate completes The Awakening in January.

The Awakening is published, to scathing reviews.

Kate writes "The Gentleman get round New Orleans", and is traded in the first edition swallow Who's Who in USA.

Kate visits the Louisiana Purchase Expo on August 18, where she suffers a stroke. She dies two days later.