A Touch of Fire - 9780228000952

A Touch of FireMarie-Andr Duplessis, the Htel-Dieu of Quebec, and the Writing of New France\nAuthor(s): Thomas M. Carr\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228000952, 978-0228000952\nSynopsis\nMarie-Andr Duplessis [tel] guided the Augustinian sisters at the Htel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last decades of the French regime and an accomplished woman of letters. She has been credited with Canadas first literary narrative, Canadas first music manual, and the first book by a Canadian woman printed during her own lifetime. In A Touch of Fire, the first biography of Duplessis, Thomas Carr analyzes how she navigated, in peace and war, the unstable, male-dominated colonial world of New France. Through a study of Dupless.