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''.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) Her work contributed to the regionalist literary stream,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 rchive, ''Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française'', vol. 47, no 1, 1993, p. 45. (in French) 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".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) Olier lived in

Shawinigan Shawinigan () is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,349 as of the 2016 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) an ...

. In 1929, she married Joseph Garceau, who was the first doctor in that city. In 1944, she moved to Montreal.Suzanne Lafrenière, Moïsette Olier, "femme de lettres de la Mauricie", éditions Asticou, Hull, 1980. Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan. (in French) 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

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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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Olier, Moisette 1885 births 1972 deaths People from Mauricie 20th-century Canadian writers 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian writers in French Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers