Monday Meme: Soar

Today’s meme comes from feminist author Kate Chopin. Born on this day in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri, Kate Chopin started writing to help lift herself out of a deep depression after the deaths of both her mother and husband. Chopin published hundreds of short stories before the release of her novel the Awakening in 1899. Shunned at the time because of its themes of sexual independence and marital infidelity, The Awakening was rediscovered in the 1960s and has been regarded as a classic of feminist literature ever since. Authors like Sylvia Plath and Edith Wharton were cited Chopin as an influence and the author who never made much money writing is now studied and discussed in literature classes around the globe. Soar, indeed.

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