ab Chronology Date Events Relevant to Kate Chopin and The Awakening Events in Kate Chopin’s Life and Work 1803 The Louisiana Purchase from France doubles the size of the United States it includes the states of Louisiana (where The Awakening takes place) and Missouri (where Kate Chopin is born in 1850, grows up, and writes all her fiction). 1817 In Germany, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel publishes the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences its relevance is described in Chapter 2. 1820 The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri to the United States Kate Chopin is born in Missouri in 1850. 1827 The Youth’s Companion magazine is founded Kate Chopin later publishes 20 stories in it. 1831 In France, Zampa, an opera by Louis Hérold, opens music from it appears in the first chapter of The Awakening.
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