Kate Chopin spent the 1870s and 80s living on Magazine Street with her Creole husband, watching a city that would give her the material for The Awakening — the 1899 novel that ended her career and later became one of the founding texts of American feminist literature. Chopin walked these streets pregnant with six children in twelve years. Edna Pontellier, her protagonist, walks them too. The houses Chopin lived in are gone, but the avenue remembers.
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- ·Kate Chopin lived on Magazine Street in the 1870s and 1880s with her Creole husband.
- ·The city gave her the material for The Awakening, published in 1899.
- ·The novel ended her career in her lifetime and later became a founding text of American feminist literature.
- ·Chopin had six children in twelve years while walking these same streets.
- ·Visitor tip: the exact houses are gone, but Magazine between Jackson and Louisiana still reads as her setting.
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