Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenthcentury American writers whose fiction explored new and often startingterritory. When he... » 

Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenthcentury American writers whose fiction explored new and often startingterritory. When her most famous story The Awakening was first published in1899 it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of EdnaPontellier and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood.From her first stories Chopin was interested in independent characters whochallenged convention. «