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"La Gothe and Her Husband" 1895
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Le mari de la Gothe," translated here by Patricia Sillers as "La Gothe and Her Husband," first appeared in Fleurs champêtres. Closer in character to the gothic tales of Barry’s later period, the story obviously represents a transitional phase in her creative imagination. It is about two women, Louise Bresolles and Madeleine Renaud, who seek shelter from a storm in the house of Mère Madeloche, and whose servant La Gothe entertains them with an embittered account of the atrocities committed by her deceased husband.
This is the one story from the collection Fleurs champêtres that was not printed in La Patrie, and it was not published separately until 1916, six years after Barry’s death, when it appeared in Le Reveil under the title "Pages canadiennes oubliees."
Contributors
Robertine Barry
Robertine Barry was born on Isle-Verte on February 28, 1863, and studied in Trois-Pistoles and Quebec City. A pioneering woman journalist, her work was championed by her contemporaries, including Louis Fréchette. Under the pseudonym Françoise, she published Fleurs champêtres (Rural Flowers), her first collection of stories, in 1895. Light, semi-instructional tales written for Christmas, New Year's, and Easter, all but one of them had been serialized in the magazine La Patrie. A second, darker collection, Chroniques du lundi (Monday's Chronicles) appeared in 1900, the title story of which had appeared in La Patrie in 1893.
