Talk:Kate Chopin
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There is uncertainty about the year and date of birth of Kate Chopin. Biographer Emily Toth gives the year as 1850, while Marilynne Robinson gives it as 1851.
Curiously, both February 8 and July 12 turn up as her birthday. --Jose Ramos 08:15, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
There is also discrepancy re: the number of childeren she bore - either 5 sons and 1 daughter, or 5 boys and 2 girls - 9/12/04 (User: Bill Dulle)
Sorry, but Cloutierville is NOT a Cajun area...that is in south, central, Lousiana. The area around Cloutierville and in particular, Natchitoches (nearby) WAS settled by the French, but NOT Acadian (Cajun) French who came from Canada. Suellen Eyre 11 July 2005.
Do you know from when this picture approximately is? She could be 30 there or 50 ... --DE: Regenspaziergang (137.248.1.11 15:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC))
Wow, this page is written in some haphazard chunks. The Facebook.com page is more detailed. Yikes.
concerning birthday: Toth sites her source as US census (a fairly accurate thing :) Cannonstudent 16:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)and also in april 1886 her book was the greatest
This page needs more information. Her life and her works have no common ground in this article....very untrue!!
[edit] Possible Plagiarism?
Either someone plagiarized most of the information from this website http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Aberdonia4407/kate-chopin-childhood.html or they plagiarized wikipedia? Jman14141414 00:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Who suggested her to write?
I noticed here that it says she was having a nervous breakdown and that her docter suggested to her that she write. Yet, the thing is, I just had a professor at my school do a sabbatical on Chopin, and she clams that it was a friend Kate wrote to while she lived in New Orleans who suggested to her that she write, not because of a nervous breakdown, but because she was good at it.
This article, sadly, has been vandalized. I would repair, but I don't have the proper information.(75.177.56.241 02:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC))
There is a comment in the intro to the article that "in time, feminist critics would determine that her stories addressed the concerns of all women in all places at all times" or something along those lines. First of all, there are no sources listed for this assertion (although you could possibly reference any number of feminist criticism essays) but also, this should probably be corrected to be more specific. Second wave feminist critics may have written such a thing, but that type of feminism came under heavy criticism itself by third wave feminism and non-white feminists in particular, who argue that race/geography/etc etc also plays an important role and that you cannot simply say that there is a social category called "women" which is uniform the world over and thus faces the same social problems... anyway I do not know how to edit pages well but somebody should surely make this correction.
