Female Authorship, Incomplete Archives, and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Case of Rosanna Mullins Leprohon

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Author/collaborator
Title
Female Authorship, Incomplete Archives, and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Case of Rosanna Mullins Leprohon
Abstract
The author’s article revolves around a case study of Montreal-based, Irish-Canadian author Rosanna Mullins Leprohon (1829-1879) who left behind little to no material archive after her death in 1879. Leprohon’s example serves to highlight the scholarly challenges that are inherent in defining Canadian women’s authorship in the nineteenth century. The author divides her article into two parts: focussing on the Journal of Education for Lower Canada (Montreal, 1857-1879), the first half argues that Leprohon’s periodical poetry played a greater role than previously understood in defining the terms of her authorship in Confederation-period Montreal. Examining archival documents belonging to her late husband and held in the Fonds Jean-Lukin Leprohon, the second half of the author’s article demonstrates the challenges that inherent in reconstructing women’s authorship through the archives of men-of-letters. The author concludes that although they may make up for the absence of private correspondence written in her own voice, Rosanna Leprohonever n’s periodical poems represent valuable resources for reconstructing the terms of her authorship and visibility in Montreal in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.
Publication
Port Acadie:
Volume
No. 36-37
Pages
237-267
Date
Spring-Fall 2022
Language
en
URL
Citation
Cabajsky, Andrea. “Female Authorship, Incomplete Archives, and the Periodical  Press in Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Case of Rosanna  Mullins Leprohon.” Port Acadie: No. 36-37 (Spring-Fall 2022): 237–267. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/pa/2022-n36-37-pa08716/1105950ar.pdf.
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