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Kate Chopin's A Night In Acadie

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Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the year 1851. Chopin was greatly influenced by her Franco-American household, as evidenced in her works, which all took place in the very Cajun setting of New Orleans, Louisiana. She began writing stories for magazines in order to support herself and her six children after her husband died in 1883. These stories Her first collection of stories, Bayou Folk, was well-received, and helped her gain national fame as a writer. However, starting with her second collection of stories, A Night in Acadie, Chopin wrote about more controversial topics of the time, such as divorce, and she created more unconventional heroines who defied the morals of that time. This came to a head with the publication of

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