by George J. Dance
Marie Joussaye (May 1864 - March 24, 1949) was a Canadian poet.[1] She is considered Canada's earliest female working-class poet.[2]
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Joussaye was born Marie Josie at Belleville, Ontario, into a working-class family.[2]
She left school at 12 and worked as a domestic servant.[2]
Career[]
In the early 1890s Joussaye was a union activist organizing domestic servants in Toronto,[3] on behalf of the Working Women's Protective Association.[2]
Later she moved to British Columbia, and in 1902 to the Yukon, where she married Northwest Mounted Police officer David Fotheringham in 1903. (Because Mounties were not allowed to marry, Fotheringham had to resign). The couple were jailed for a month for debt in 1912.[4]
In 1929 Joussaye left Fotheringham and moved to Vancouver, where she died of a heart attack in 1949.[4]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Songs that Quinte Sang. Belleville, ON: Sun Printing & Publishing, 1895.
- Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs. Dawson, YK: Dawson News Publishing Co., [1920?].[5]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
The Honest Working Man by Marie Joussaye Fotheringham
See also[]
References[]
- Gerson, Carole. "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham: Canada's First Woman Labour Poet." Canadian Notes & Queries 44 (Spring 1991): 21-23.
- Gerson, Carole. "‘Only a Working Girl’: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham." Northern Review 19 (1998): 141-60.
Notes[]
- ↑ Marie Joussaye, Canada's Early Women Writers, Simon Fraser University. Web, Apr. 15, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Roger Moran, "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham," Canadian Encyclopedia, Dominion-Historica Institute, Web, Nov. 28, 2011.
- ↑ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, "Marie Joussaye," Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings through the First World War (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart New Canadian Library, 318, Print.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 MacBride Museum of Yukon History, "Yukon's working-class poet, criminal and pest," Yukon News. Web, Apr. 15, 2017.
- ↑ [The Canadian Encyclopedia gives 1918 as the publication date.)]
- ↑ Search results = au:Marie Joussaye, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 13, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Joussaye, Marie (1864?-1949) (7 poems) at Representative Poetry Online
- Books
- Marie Joussaye at Amazon.com
- About
- Marie Joussaye at Canada's Early Women Writers, Simon Fraser University
- "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham" in the Canadian Encyclopedia
- Marie Joussaye and the Yukon Territory on Rootsweb
- Early feminist had a rough ride in the Klondike by Mark Gales, Yukon News
- Marie Joussaye's '"Labour's Greeting", Canadian Poetry
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