Which novel of 1899 scandalized readers with Edna Pontellier's awakening?

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin - a short book about a married woman in Louisiana who discovers she wants a life of her own, and is offered no version of one that exists.

The scandal was less the adultery than the motherhood. Edna says plainly that she would give her life for her children but not herself, which in 1899 was close to unsayable; reviewers called the book morbid, vulgar and unhealthy, and the ending - she swims out into the Gulf - was read as endorsement rather than diagnosis. Chopin published almost nothing afterwards and died five years later, and the story that the novel was banned from libraries appears to be a later embellishment on a reception that was merely hostile.

It was recovered in the 1960s, largely through a Norwegian scholar's biography, and became a standard text. Chopin had been writing local-colour stories of Creole and Cajun Louisiana that sold well, and the novel uses that setting precisely: a Catholic Creole society where a certain flirtation is permitted because everyone understands it means nothing, which is exactly what Edna fails to understand.