The Washington Post, April 1st, 1999
UNVEILING KATE CHOPIN By Emily Toth Mississippi. 290 pp. Paperback, $18 By Grace Lichtenstein, a journalist who lives in New York and New Mexico, and co-author of "Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans." One of the many accomplishments of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s was to create fresh interest in Kate Chopin's 1899 novel "The Awakening." Practically unknown to college students before that, it is now required reading in numerous women's studies programs. Chopin, a St. Louis writer who spent a great deal of time in Louisiana, described a 28-year-old Victorian woman's voyage o...
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