Moïsette Olier

Corinne P. Beauchemin (September 30, 1885 – June 17, 1972), known better by her pen name, Moïsette Olier was a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Moïsette Olier
Born
Corinne P. Beauchemin

(1885-09-30)September 30, 1885
Forges du Saint-Maurice, Trois-Rivières, Quebec
DiedJune 17, 1972(1972-06-17) (aged 86)
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter
Spouse(s)
Joseph Garceau
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(m. 1929)​

Biography

Corinne P. Beauchemin was born in Forges du Saint-Maurice, September 30, 1885.[1]

Olier was a contributor to various newspapers including, Le Bien public, Le Nouvelliste, and Le Mauricien.[2] Her work contributed to the regionalist literary stream,[3][4] 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".[5]

Olier lived in Shawinigan. In 1929, she married Joseph Garceau, who was the first doctor in that city. In 1944, she moved to Montreal.[1]

She chose the pseudonym, "Moïsette Olier", in reference to the name of her great-grandfather, Moses Olier.[1] She died on June 17, 1972.[1]

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

Citations
  1. Suzanne Lafrenière, Moïsette Olier, "femme de lettres de la Mauricie", éditions Asticou, Hull, 1980. Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan. (in French)
  2. Réginald Hamel, John Hare et Paul Wyczynski, Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord, Montréal, Fides, 1989, (ISBN 2-7621-1475-6) and (ISBN 978-2-7621-1475-1), p. 1034. (in French)
  3. René Hardy, Normand Séguin and others, Histoire de la Mauricie, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 2004, (ISBN 2-89224-331-9), p. 816-817. (in French)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)

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)


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