Sidonie de la Houssaye
Sidonie de la Houssaye, née Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond (Edgard, Louisiana, August 17, 1820 – February 18, 1894) was an American-born French language writer of Louisiana Creole descent.[1]
The daughter of Creoles Ursin Perret and Françoise Pain, she received a bilingual education in English and French while living in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. She married Alexandre Pelletier de la Houssaye when she was thirteen years old, and they had eight sons and one daughter.
After her husband's death during the American Civil War, she worked as a school teacher in Franklin, Louisiana.
Works
- Contes d'une grand-mère louisianaise
- Pouponne et Balthazar, 1888
- Les Quarteronnes de La Nouvelle Orléans (posthumous tetralogy published from 1895 in Le Méchacébé)
- Gina la quarteronne
- Dahlia la quarteronne
- Octavia la quarteronne
- Violetta la quarteronne
References
- Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. (accessed 2/18/2015) <http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p120701coll19/>
External links
- Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection Emma T. Stafford. Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers, Mss. 105, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- www.louisiane.culture.fr
- mondesfrancophones.com
- Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. (accessed 2/18/2015)
- Pouponne et Balthazar on [archive.org]
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