1. Kate Chopin
1.1. Realism
1.1.1. • Chopin was born on Feb. 8, 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri. • Grew up in an unconventional family full of all women. • Started writing when she lost her husband and mother to help cope with her grief. • Her great grandmother was her greatest influence, giving Chopin the courage to be an independent thinker. • Her writing is mostly associated with feminism and the South. • Wrote about the Yankee businessman and the Creole issues often. • Died in St. Louis in 1904
1.2. The Story of an Hour (1894)
1.2.1. Works cited: Ewell, Barbara. “Kate Chopin, 1851–1904.” Documenting the American South, uncpress, docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinawake/bio.html. Accessed 29 June 2021.
1.2.1.1. Works cited: Diederich, Nicole. “Sharing Chopin: Teaching ‘The Story of an Hour’ to Specialized Populations.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, Aug. 2012, pp. 116–120.
2. Katherine Mansfield
2.1. Modernsim
2.1.1. • Mansfield was born on Oct. 14, 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. • Grew up in a high-end middle-class family. • Anton Chekov greatly influenced most of her work, focusing on changes in human behavior and minor events. • She was known for being one of the major influences on the modern short story. • Was considered a scandalous writer - suffering with an untreated STD for most of her life, causing her to be weak. • In debt for most of her teen and adult years living between London, France, and Switzerland, but gaining productive writing experiences. • Died in France in 1923, leaving her writings to her husband.
2.2. The Garden Party (1921)
2.2.1. Works cited: The British Library. “Katherine Mansfield.” The British Library, 6 July 2018, www.bl.uk/people/katherine-mansfield.
2.2.1.1. Works cited: Shaup, Karen L. “Consuming Beauty: Aesthetic Experience in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Garden Party.’” Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 51, no. 3, Summer 2015, pp. 221–243.