She was certainly a pioneer in the awakening of marriage
Kate Chopin was born in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. At that time, the United States, less than a century old, was still expanding its territory, and the use of black slaves to grow cotton and other crops was still an important economic form in most states. Eleven years later, the Civil War broke out in the name of the abolition of slavery. It was still a frontier, accumulating and growing country, far from becoming a world power, and one important sign was that America had not yet established a great literary tradition. Emerson, Whitman, And Mark Twain have all appeared, but for many readers and writers, it is European literature that represents the highest standards of literature.
