Maud Ogilvy

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Maud Ogilvy

A Canadian journalist, novelist, and poet, this late-19th-century writer is remembered for fiction rooted in Quebec settings and for work that bridged literature and public life. Her stories often draw on the Lower St. Lawrence, giving them a strong sense of place.

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Marie Gourdon

by Maud Ogilvy

About the author

Born in Montreal on July 14, 1864, Maud Ogilvy was a Canadian journalist, author, and poet. Brief reference sources consistently describe her as active in Canadian literary life, and surviving records link her especially with Montreal and Quebec.

She is best known for novels including Marie Gourdon: A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence (1890) and The Keeper of Bic Light House: A Canadian Story of To-day (1891). Those titles suggest the kind of work she is remembered for today: fiction shaped by Canadian landscapes, local history, and regional character.

Ogilvy died on April 1, 1935. Though she is not widely known now, her books remain accessible through major public-domain and library collections, and they offer a glimpse of Canadian popular writing at the end of the nineteenth century.