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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The dedication to Woman’s Profession as Mother and Educator by Catharine E. Beecher, published in 1872.

The dedication to Woman’s Profession as Mother and Educator by Catharine E. Beecher, published in 1872.

This excerpt comes from an 1872 book by Beecher, an author, activist, and educator who highlighted women’s contributions to American society but opposed votes for women.

Citation Information
Beecher, Catharine Esther, excerpt from “Woman's profession as mother and educator : with views in opposition to woman suffrage,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/42556e961a85fa419dc5e330bff57815.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Harvard University via HathiTrust.

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Item 10 of 14 in the Primary Source Set The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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An 1870 photograph of Kate O’Flaherty at the time of her marriage to Oscar Chopin.
A photograph of Kate Chopin and her four children in 1877.
An excerpt from chapter one of The Awakening, 1899.
A painting of a West Indian Creole woman and her black servant, circa 1780.
A photograph of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast in 1935.
A photograph of a woman with a parasol taken between 1900 and 1914.
The Parrot, a print by Mary Cassatt, 1891.
A photograph of unknown date showing the Gulf of Mexico.
An 1899 article from The St. Louis Dispatch in which Chopin discusses her writing.
The dedication to Woman’s Profession as Mother and Educator by Catharine E. Beecher, published in 1872.
An excerpt from Victoria Woodhull’s 1871 “Steinway Speech” on free love.
Willa Cather’s preface to The Best Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, published in 1925.
An excerpt from an audio recording of a lecture on French naturalism by LeMoine Lewis.
An excerpt from Chopin’s 1893 short story “Désirée’s Baby,” about miscegenation, or the mixing of racial groups, in the Creole community.

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