

Chopin anticipated a positive response to her novel, and a month before the novel’s publication, Book News published a favorable review, praising it as “subtle and a beautiful type of art.” This praise phrase illustrated how the narrative did not meet with the widespread approval that Chopin anticipated. The novel was later published in Chicago in late April 1899 by Herbert S.

Chopin commenced inscription of The Awakening in 1897 and finalized it in late January 1898. Its first publication received widespread condemnation for its representation of sexuality and marital unfaithfulness however, it is now widely regarded as a seminal work of early feminist fiction. Kate Chopin authored the novel The Awakening in 1899, which portrays the story of a young mother’s struggle for erotic and personal independence (Sivagamy 55).
