author
Laure Conan
1845–1924
A pioneering voice in French-Canadian fiction, this 19th-century writer helped open the door for women novelists in Quebec. She is best remembered for Angéline de Montbrun, often described as French Canada's first psychological novel.
2 Audiobooks
Angéline de Montbrun
by Laure Conan
Un amour vrai
by Laure Conan
About the author
Born Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers in La Malbaie, Quebec, Laure Conan was a French-Canadian writer and journalist whose work made her one of the first important women novelists in French Canada. Writing under a pen name, she built a literary career at a time when very few women were recognized in that field.
Her best-known book, Angéline de Montbrun, first appeared in the early 1880s and is widely seen as a landmark in Canadian literature because of its inward, psychological focus. Her fiction often returned to questions of family, faith, duty, and inner conflict, giving emotional depth to subjects that mattered deeply in Quebec society of her time.
Conan continued to write across several genres, including novels, biography, journalism, and plays. Today she is remembered not only for the quality of her work, but also for the path she helped create for later generations of French-Canadian women writers.