Chopin International Society

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Kate Chopin & Edith Wharton

Authors’ Biographies:

Read about Kate Chopin’s life at the Kate Chopin International Society:

Read about Edith Wharton at EdithWharton.Org: http://www.edithwharton.org/edith-wharton/biography/

Reading Assignments:

Background:

The role of wife and mother in the late 19th century in mind:

http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/new/women/motherhood.html

As you read the three short stories linked below, keep what you have learned in mind.

Kate Chopin:

Read “The Story of an Hour”: http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20The%20Story%20of%20an%20Hour.pdf

Read “Desirée’s Baby”: http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf

Kate Chopin, Photographer Unknown, 1894

http://www.edithwharton.org/edith-wharton/biography/
http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/new/women/motherhood.html
http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20The%20Story%20of%20an%20Hour.pdf
http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf
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Edith Wharton:

Read “The Other Two”:

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wharton/edith/descent_of_man/chapter2.html

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wharton/edith/descent_of_man/chapter2.html
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Works Cited

Felsenburgh, Julian. “Edith Wharton.” 1905. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. 12 Jun. 2013.

Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

Lhademmor. “Kate Chopin.” 1894. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. 12 Nov. 2007. Web 21

Dec. 2014.

KateChopin.Org. The Kate Chopin International Society. 21 Dec. 2014. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.