FTP name the then-controversial author who gave up writing after the bitter response to her 1899 novel The Awakening.
After the death of her cotton-broker husband in 1882, she left Louisiana to return to her native St. Louis.  Her literary career blossomed in the 1890's, earning her a reputation as a strumpet at the time, but modern acclaim as a powerful early feminist.  Her collections Bayou Folk and A Night in Arcadie, containing short works such as "The Story of An Hour," were more neutrally recieved than her last novel, which shocked Victorian sensibilities with its frank portrayal of adultery.  FTP name the then-controversial author who gave up writing after the bitter response to her 1899 novel The Awakening.
After the death of her cotton-broker husband in 1882, she left Louisiana to return to her native St. Louis.  
Kate Chopin