Moïsette Olier Explained
| Moïsette Olier |
| Birth Name: | Corinne P. Beauchemin |
| Birth Date: | September 30, 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Forges du Saint-Maurice, Trois-Rivières, Quebec |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | Writer |
Corinne P. Beauchemin (September 30, 1885 – June 17, 1972), known better by her pen name, Moïsette Olier was a Canadian writer from Quebec.
Biography
Corinne P. Beauchemin was born in Forges du Saint-Maurice, September 30, 1885.
Olier was a contributor to various newspapers including, Le Bien public, Le Nouvelliste, and Le Mauricien.[1] Her work contributed to the regionalist literary stream,[2] [3] favored in particular by the tricentennial of the founding of Trois-Rivières. In 1934, the Trois-Rivières region went through a period of "literary renaissance".[4]
Olier lived in Shawinigan. In 1929, she married Joseph Garceau, who was the first doctor in that city. In 1944, she moved to Montreal.[5]
She chose the pseudonym, "Moïsette Olier", in reference to the name of her great-grandfather, Moses Olier. She died on June 17, 1972.
Honors
- Moïsette-Olier Street, Shawinigan, named in 1976.
- Moïsette-Olier Bay, a bay of Saint-Maurice, named in 1982.
Selected works
- L'Homme à la Physionomie macabre, Éditions Édouard Garand, 1927
- "Le St-Maurice", in Au pays de l’énergie, 1932
- Cha8inigane, 1934
- Mademoiselle Sérénité, 1936
- Cendres,
- Étincelles, 1936
References
Bibliography
- Carole Lamothe, La femme et l'amour dans l'œuvre romanesque de Moïsette Olier, thesis, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1981, published in 1983 (in French)
Notes and References
- Réginald Hamel, John Hare et Paul Wyczynski, Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord, Montréal, Fides, 1989, and, p. 1034. (in French)
- René Hardy, Normand Séguin and others, Histoire de la Mauricie, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 2004,, p. 816-817. (in French)
- René Verrette, "Le régionalisme mauricien des années trente [archive]", Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 47, no 1, 1993, p. 45. (in French)
- Marcel Olscamp, "Émergence d’une institution littéraire : l’exemple de Trois-Rivières", University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 70, no 3, 2001, p. 699. (in French)
- Suzanne Lafrenière, Moïsette Olier, "femme de lettres de la Mauricie", éditions Asticou, Hull, 1980. Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan. (in French)
