One of the great female artists during this period was Kate
Chopin. She wrote some really interesting stories about the struggles of being
a woman in the late nineteenth century. The clip below is a reading of one of
her works, “The Story Of an Hour”. Students should listen to the
recording and answer the questions below
What relationship can you see between this writing and the
work of the female painters of the period like Mary Cassatt?
From the visual and
literary works what can you determine about the lives of middle class and
wealthy women living during the nineteenth century?
How did their
expectations for their life differ from general society’s expectations for the
lives of women during this period?
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