Rheta Press present!
Heliotrope--French
Heritage Women Create
AND also,
Wednesday's
Child (see below)
*Canuck
and Other Stories (see below)
Available for Readings and Presentations,
(see below), please contact Rhea Cote Robbins
for more info
AND new publication, 2nd part in the memoir trilogy
'down the Plains'
Rhea Cote Robbins' Interviews:
Rhea Cote Robbins reading from her memoir, 'down the Plains.'
Chapter 16
"Other Means of Fire" 4:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxl1lobq2DQ&feature=youtu.be
Chapter 26
"Slicking Up" 3:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BP72tBFH20&feature=youtu.be
'down the Plains'
A Franco-American
memoir, 2nd Installment in trilogy
by Rhea Côté
Robbins
# Paperback: 194
pages
# Publisher: Rheta
Press (June 25, 2013)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0615841104
# ISBN-13: 978-0615841106
More
info--Read excerpts from 'down the Plains'
Available
from Amazon.com
Wednesday's
Child
A Franco-American
memoir, 1st Installment in trilogy
by Rhea Côté
Robbins
Winner
of the Maine Chapbook Award!
This
is
the story of a neighborhood and beyond.
This
is the story of a woman who lived the life of the mill town and its inhabitants.
This
is the true story of that town and its people told from her experiences
of them.
A creative
nonfiction memoir about
growing up
and living Franco-American.
The story
of a culture in Maine and beyond.
Used as a
textbook in many college classrooms for:
cultural,
women's, sociology, English, French,
writing and
other studies.
Read
an excerpt from Wednesday's Child
Wednesday's
Child listed in the
Literary
Map of Maine!
Franco-American
Women's Words in Maine, Rhea Cote Robbins
Maine Humanities Council
Maine Festival of the Book
Portland, Maine
<>EmpoweringWomenTV, Maine Authors interview with author
Rhea Cote Robbins
Now in its 5th
printing!
Wednesday's
Child
is included
in the
Who's Who
of American Women, 2000-present
Terry Plunkett
Maine Writers Collection, University of Maine at Augusta
Maine Women
Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College
Yale Collection
of American Literature, Yale University
New York Public
Library
Maine Arts
Commission Directory
How
to order your copy of
Wednesday's Child
Textbook orders, please contact
Rheta Press directly!
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Rheta Press (January
16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966853644
ISBN-13: 978-0966853643
Ask for it at your local bookstore
or order by U.S. mail/or email:
Rheta
Press
641 South Main Street
Brewer, Maine 04412-2516
207-989-7059
$12.99 plus $3 shipping and handling
Maine Residents please pay 5.5%
state tax
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Wednesday's Child-Available
from Amazon.com
Rheta Press is
a member vendor of
Maine Craft Association
Books available at
Center
for Maine Craft
Rheta Press is
a member vendor of
Maine Made
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| Canuck
and Other Stories
*see review of Canuck and Other Stories
below
Translations in French Available, see
below
Canuck et d'Autres Histoires,
French Language Edition
Canuck
and Other Stories
Rhea Côté Robbins,
Editor
Canuck, by Camille
Lessard Bissonnette, (1883-1970),
translated by Sue Huseman, Ph.D.
and Sylvie Charron, Ph.D.
is a book which reflects the French
Canadian immigration
experience from a young woman's
point of view.
The protagonist, Vic, is a very
modern young
woman who sets out to accomplish
many things in her new country,
the U.S.
La Jeune Franco-Américaine,
The Young Franco-American
by Alberte Gastonguay, (1906-1978),
translated by Madeleine C. Paré
Roy,
is a study of the life of a young
woman
who is seeking her way in the world.
She meets many suitors and comes
to the
conclusion of a satisfactory ending
in the ways of traditional culture.
Françaises d'Amérique,
Frenchwomen of North America
by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau,
(1881-1963),
translated by Jeannine Bacon
Roy,
is a one act play which features
the heroines
who helped settle New France.
This play proves their presence
on the North American continent
and is as fresh today as the day
it was first presented.
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by credit card, Paypal, visit
this link
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online:
Available
from Amazon.com
Canuck and Other Stories
from
Rheta Press
Paperback: 290 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 0966853628
List Price: $18.99
| Camille Lessard-Bissonnette (1883-1970), the author of Canuck,
emigrated from Quebec to Lewiston with her family in 1904 at the age of
twenty. Although she left that city a few years later and subsequently
resided in various parts of Canada and the United States--she died at Long
Beach, California--she never forgot her experiences working in a textile
mill in Lewiston for four years before finding employment as a feature
writer for Le Messager, the local French-language newspaper. Her
novel, which appeared in 1936, is set in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1900,
but she drew heavily upon her experiences in Lewiston. A...well structured
story that grips the reader. Canuck is probably the most important
novel in French, now translated, by a Franco-American writer.
A more specialized study of Franco-American novels of the 1930s found
they were not devoid of interest, particularly as they shed light on contemporary
attitudes and values. Alberte Gastonguay-Sasseville (1906-1978),
the daughter of a prosperous insurance agent in Lewiston, Maine, published
La
Jeune Franco-Américaine in 1933. The novel tells of a
young woman's struggle to remain faithful to her Catholic and Franco-American
upbringing despite the lures of modern life (e.g., the blandishments of
a divorced man, the amorous advances of her employer, the bad example of
a girlfriend who leads a life of debauchery).
Comments from:
"The French-Canadian Heritage in New England" by Gerard J. Brault
Also:
"Frenchwomen of North America," by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau,
a one-act play commissioned in 1915....In the preface of "French Women
of North America," translated by Jeannine Bacon Roy, Corinne Rocheleau
in 1915 writes, "We have often discussed the major feats and accomplishments
of the French colonists, but we have left their "better halves" in semi-darkness.
I believe it is time to introduce these Frenchwomen pioneers. The centuries
have practically erased all traces of their footsteps on American soil."
more on Corinne:
http://www.catholicauthors.com/roleau.html
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Franco-American Women's Literary Tradition: A Central Piece in the
Region's Literary Mosaic
Written and Presented by Rhea Côté Robbins
Visit
this site |
*Review of the anthology:
Anthology of French stories resurrects three women
writers and their Franco-American heritage
Monday, May 14, 2007 - Bangor Daily News
By Melissa MacCrae, BDN Staff
Bangor Daily News
at this link:
http://www.rhetapress.com/Canuckbdnreview.html |
Canuck and Other
Stories
By Camille Lessard
Bissonette, Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, and Alberte Gastonguay
Translated by Sue
Huseman, Ph.D., Sylvie Charrron, Ph.D., Jeannine Bacon Roy, and Madeleine
C. Paré Roy
Edited by Rhea
Côté Robbins, 2006
Reviewed by Tanya
Avakian
at Cabinet des
Fées
https://www.cabinetdesfees.com/2009/canuck-and-other-stories/ |
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