Kate Chopin & Edith Wharton
Authors’ Biographies:
Read about Kate Chopin’s life at the Kate Chopin International Society:
http://www.katechopin.org/biography/
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 19 th
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.katechopin.org/biography/
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.