Welcome back to It's a Classical Life, and if you're new here, then welcome. I love sharing all things classic - literature, music, movies, style, homemaking and so on. Recently I was introduced to the life and works of American writer, Kate Chopin. Source Born in 1850 in Missouri to French/English parents, Chopin grew up in St. Louis. She was bilingual in both French and English and grew up under the influence of women - her mother, grandmother and her great grandmother. Tragically, her father died in a railroad accident. She married young, only eighteen, and had six children before her husband died when she was thirty-two. There is a wonderful biography, full of details and photos at the Kate Chopin International Society's website , so I won't go into too much detail here. A few things that struck me about Chopin include: * She kept a common place book in her youth. Common place books are becoming popular again as a journal for keeping thoughts, quotes, ideas, a...