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
^ abcdSuzanne Lafrenière, Moïsette Olier, "femme de lettres de la Mauricie", éditions Asticou, Hull, 1980. Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan. (in French)
^René Hardy, Normand Séguin and others, Histoire de la Mauricie, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 2004, (ISBN2-89224-331-9), 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)
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)
