Toward Her Awakening: A Novel of Kate Chopin

Kathleen Williams Renk re-imagines the life of novelist Kate Chopin. In 1850s' St. Louis, five-year-old Katy O'Flaherty's father sends her to a strict convent school to stifle her precocious nature. Thus begins the life of the girl who  becomes a progressive, feminist, "e;new woman"e; writer who shocks the world with her novel The Awakening, which Willa Cather derided as the "e;Creole Bovary. Kate...