Until Kate was sixteen, no married couples lived in her home, although it was full of brothers, uncles, cousins, and borders.
Louis to obtain legal separation from her husband, after which she raised her five children and ran a shipping business on the Mississippi. They were also savvy and came from a long line of ground breaking women Victoria’s own mother had been the first woman in St.
Kate O’Flaherty grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women. Her great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. For the next two years she lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows. Her father was killed two months later when a train on which he was riding crossed a bridge that collapsed. In 1855, at five and a half, she was sent to The Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic boarding school in St. She was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five. She was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers (from her father’s first marriage) in their early twenties. Louis, Missouri in 1850 to Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
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