Angéline de Montbrun
Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d''analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was ''forgiven'' because she was a woma...
Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d''analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was ''forgiven'' because she was a woma...
