Kate Chopin's New Orleans — The Awakening on Magazine Street

Kate Chopin spent the 1870s and 80s living on Magazine Street with her Creole husband, watching a city that would give her the material for The Awakening — the 1899 novel that ended her career and later became one of the founding texts of American feminist literature. Chopin walked these streets pregnant with six children in twelve years. Edna Pontellier, her protagonist, walks them too. The houses Chopin lived in are gone, but the avenue remembers.