Hermine Lanctôt

Hermine Lanctôt
20th-century B&W portrait photo of an older woman wearing a dark blouse and dark jacket, her dark hair in an up-do
Lanctôt in the mid 1920s
Born(1861-08-05)5 August 1861
La Prairie, Quebec, Canada
Died9 April 1943(1943-04-09) (aged 81)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
Writing career
Pen nameHermance, Ninette, Angéline
LanguageFrench

Hermine Lanctôt (5 August 1861 – 9 April 1943), known by the pseudonyms Hermance, Ninette and Angéline, was a French-Canadian author, journalist, and teacher.

Early life and education

Lanctôt was born on 5 August 1861,[1][2][3] in La Prairie, Quebec. Her parents were Philomène Ménard and Théophile Lanctôt.[4]

She attended school at the convent of the Dames de la Congrégation and later at the Académie, directed by Madame Marchand.[4]

Career

Starting in 1884, she wrote more than a hundred articles for several Montreal magazines, such as Le Monde illustré and Le Recueil littéraire,[2] under various pseudonyms, including "Hermance", "Ninette", and "Angéline".[5].

She began teaching in 1877,[6] first as an elementary schoolteacher,[5] then, in 1909, by founding the girls’ high school Les Hirondelles, also known as the Institut Lanctôt, [7] located at 204 Saint-Joseph Boulevard West in Montreal.[8] where students included, for example, pianist Germaine Malépart[9] and actress Suzanne Paquette-Goyette.[10] A former student, Françoise Saint-Germain, succeeded her as headmistress of the school in the 1930s.[11]

In 1899, she published a collection of poems, Fleurs enfantines, and in 1913, the text of a lecture on Lætitia Bonaparte.[12] As one of the first women writers in French Canada,[5] she was cited, for example, in a 1922 article on women’s literature in Canada[13] and was the subject of chapters in anthologies of biographies of female authors [14] and of famous women from Quebec.[4]

Death

Hermine Lanctôt died in Montreal, on April 9, 1943, at the age of 81.[15][16][17].

Selected works

  • Lanctôt, Hermine (1899). Compagnie d'imprimerie Guertin (ed.). Fleurs enfantines, ouvrage illustré contenant les portraits de soixante-dix-sept de nos enfants canadiens et des pages spécialement écrites par de nos meilleures plumes canadiennes [Fleurs enfantines, an illustrated work containing portraits of seventy-seven of our Canadian children and pages specially written by some of our best Canadian writers] (in French). Montréal.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lanctôt, Hermine (1919). Librairie Beauchemin Limitée (ed.). Madame Lætitia Bonaparte : conférence donnée aux Dames bienfaitrices de l'Institution des sourdes-muettes [Madame Lætitia Bonaparte: Lecture given to the benefactresses of the Institution for Deaf-Mute Women] (in French). Montréal.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ↑ "Acte de baptême B.80 (vue 219/605) du registre d'état civil de la paroisse de La-Nativité-de-la-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine" [Baptism record B.80 (image 219/605) from the civil registration records of the parish of La-Nativité-de-la-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine]. FamilySearch (in French). 6 August 1861.
  2. 1 2 "Madame Laetitia Bonaparte : - Canadiana" [Madame Laetitia Bonaparte: - Canadiana]. www.canadiana.ca (in French).
  3. ↑ Constant, Philippe (1959). "La famille Lanctot" [The Lanctot family]. Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française (in French). 42: 39 – via Internet Archive.
  4. 1 2 3 Gleason-Huguenin, Madeleine (1938). "Mademoiselle Herminie Lanctôt (En littérature « Hermance »)". In Éditions la Patrie (ed.). Portraits de femmes [Portraits of Women] (in French). Montréal: BANQ. p. 172.
  5. 1 2 3 Pilon, Simone (1999). "L'usage du pseudonyme chez les femmes écrivains au XIXe siècle. Le cas d'Hermine Lanctôt". Studies in Canadian Literature. 24 (1): 46–56. ISSN 0380-6995.
  6. ↑ "Cinquantenaire d'enseignement de Mlle Lanctôt". La Presse. BANQ: 9. 24 November 1927.
  7. ↑ "Germaine Malépart, soeur de Colombe et Marcel Malépart" [Germaine Malépart, sister of Colombe and Marcel Malépart]. canardscanins.ca (in French).
  8. ↑ "L'institut Lanctot" [Institute Lanctot]. CPA – Histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal (in French).
  9. ↑ "Différents détails d'une photo de quelques élèves du lycée pour filles "Les Hirondelles"" [Various details from a photograph of some students from the "Les Hirondelles" girls' high school]. canardscanins.ca (in French).
  10. ↑ ""Les Hirondelles" graduation année académique 1924-1925" ["Les Hirondelles" graduation, 1924–1925 academic year]. Advitam - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (in French).
  11. ↑ Bernier, Germaine (3 December 1959). "Les cinquante années du lycée Les Hirondelles" [The Fifty Years of Les Hirondelles High School]. Le Devoir (in French): 6.
  12. ↑ Montreuil, Gaëtane de (September 1913). "Mme Laetitia Bonaparte, par Mlle Hermine Lanctôt" [Madame Laetitia Bonaparte, by Mademoiselle Hermine Lanctôt]. Pour vous mesdames (in French): 5–6.
  13. ↑ "La liittérature féminine et la semaine du livre canadien" [Women's Literature and Canadian Book Week]. L'Action catholique (in French): 11. 4 November 1922.
  14. ↑ Bellerive, Georges (1920). "Mlle Hermine Lanctôt". In Librairie Garneau (ed.). Brèves apologies de nos auteurs féminins [Brief apologies from our female authors] (in French). Québec. pp. 36–38 – via wikisource: Brèves apologies de nos auteurs féminins/Mlle Hermine Lanctôt.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ↑ "Avis de décès" [Obituary]. La Presse (in French). 10 April 1943. p. 55 – via BANQ.
  16. ↑ "Feu Mlle Hermine Lanctôt" [The late Miss Hermine Lanctôt]. Le Devoir (in French). 10 April 1943. p. 5.
  17. ↑ "Mlle Hermine Lanctôt décédée à 81 ans" [Miss Hermine Lanctôt passed away at age 81.]. La Patrie (in French). 10 April 1943. p. 27.
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