Abstract
The Awakening had barely been published, in April 1899, when the first stirrings of Ednaphobia—the morbid fear and hatred of Edna Pontellier—began. The very first review, essentially a plot summary in Kate Chopin’s hometown St. Louis Republic, called The Awakening “the story of a lady most foolish” and concluded that “the woman who did not want anything but her own way drowned herself” (Toth 220).
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Koloski, Bernard. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Toth, Emily. Unveiling Kate Chopin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
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Toth, E. (2015). The “I Hate Edna Club”. In: Ostman, H., O’Donoghue, K. (eds) Kate Chopin in Context. American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543967_8
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