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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

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Author Biography

Name: Katherine Chopin
Variant Name: Kate Chopin
Birth Date: February 8, 1851
Death Date: August 22, 1904
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Katherine Chopin
12571 words, approx. 41.9 pages
Kate O'Flaherty was born into one of St. Louis's most prominent families. Although Kate O'Flaherty Chopin later said she was born in 1851, Emily Toth discovered during her research for her forthcoming biography of Chopin that the future writer's baptisma...
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Biography of Katherine Chopin
7708 words, approx. 25.7 pages
Kate Chopin introduced to the reading public a new fictional setting: the charming, somewhat isolated region along the Cane River in north central Louisiana, an area populated by Creoles, Acadians, and blacks. Beginning in the 1960s, her fiction was also...
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Biography of Katherine Chopin
7131 words, approx. 23.8 pages
Kate Chopin introduced to the reading public a new fictional setting: the charming, somewhat isolated region along the Cane River in north central Louisiana, an area populated by Creoles, Acadians, and blacks. Beginning in the 1960s, her fiction was also...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Story of an Hour Information
342 words, approx. 1 pages
"The Story of an Hour" (1894) is a widely anthologized short story by American writer Kate Chopin. Critic Daniel Deneau says it is "Surely [her] best-known piece of short fiction." [1] It was originally published in the December 6, 1894 issue of Vogue...


News and Journals
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The Southern Review
Story hour. (poem)
09/22/1997: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
Near the parking lot, a few last red leaves swirl -- catch me, catch me if you can -- toward twilit skies scarred with late autumn's frozen bits of cirrus. Or are they contrails? A jet's roar lifts my eyes -- catch me,...
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The Boston Globe
No library, no books, no story hour
12/24/1992: 331 words, approx. 1 pages
The Harvard Avenue area in Allston is awash in watering holes, bouncers, happy hours and bar bands. Not available are reference desks, librarians, story hours and music rooms. Allston's sole branch library, which operated in rented space, closed in 1981, a victim of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lawrence L. Berkove
3,240 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Berkove contends that Chopin's narration of “The Story of an Hour” is ironic rather than straightforward.
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 94%
The Story of an Hour
1,865 words, approx. 6 pages
Essay discusses Kate Chopin as Ms. Mallory in "The Story of an Hour."
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Silent Curse
1,359 words, approx. 5 pages
A comparison of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," a poem by Adrienne Rich, and "The Story of an Hour," a short story by Kate Chopin. Both literary works have similar themes, portraying a woman's struggle with oppression, marital burdens, and the secret desire for freedom.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Three Interpretations of "The Story of an Hour"
1,195 words, approx. 4 pages
Three possible interpretations Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," which is about a marriage not entered into because of love.
 


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