Angers, Félicité (1845–1924)

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Angers, Félicité (1845–1924)

French-Canadian novelist and historian. Name variations: Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers; Felicite Angers; (pseudonym) Laure Conan. Born Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers, 1845, in Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada; died 1924 in Quebec, Canada; dau. of É lie Angers and Marie (Perron) Angers; attended Ursuline Convent in Quebec City; never married; no children.

Quebec's 1st woman novelist, began writing novels (1870s); led a solitary life in Murray Bay, living most of her life at her family home in La Malbaie; made a living from writing; works, which evoke French-Canadian history and resist Quebec's patriarchal culture, include Un amour vrai (1878), À l'oeuvre et á l'épreuve (1891), L'obscure souffrance (1919), La Vaine Foi (1919), La Sève immortelle (1925), and her best-known the epistolary Angéline de Montbrun (1884, trans. 1974); wrote moral and religious articles including Si les Canadiennes le voulaient (1886).

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