Kate Chopin: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Emily Toth, Kate Chopin (1990), focuses on her life. Per Seyersted, Kate Chopin (1969, reprinted 1990); and Barbara C. Ewell, Kate Chopin (1986), are critical biographies. Analyses of her work include Alice Hall Petry (ed.), Critical Essays on Kate Chopin (1996); and Bernard Koloski, Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction (1996).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Feb 04, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 18, 2025
Media added. Jan 07, 2025
Changed her birth year from “1851” to “1850.” Jan 02, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Kate Chopin. Feb 27, 2020
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Kate Chopin International Society. Feb 27, 2020
Add new Web site: 64 Parishes - Biography of Kate Chopin. May 22, 2019
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Kate Chopin International Society. Dec 18, 2013
Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Komsomol. Dec 18, 2013
Add new Web site: Virginia Commonwealth University - Biography of Kate Chopin. Dec 18, 2013
Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - The Awakening - Kate Chopin. Jun 13, 2006
Added new Web site: Domestic Goddesses. Jun 09, 2006
Article revised. Feb 10, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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