Franco American Library

Inside Peyton Place : The Life of Grace Metalious

Author: Toth, Emily

Date: 1981

Language:

Find in a Library: 7247649

Biography of Manchester, New Hampshire author Grace Metalious. Famous for her novel "Peyton Place" and its various film adaptations. Emily Toth is also the biographer of novelist Kate Chopin.

From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…

Tags: Alcohol and Drugs, Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Manchester NH, New England, New Hampshire, Personal History: Biography and Oral History

New England and the Maritime Provinces : Connections and Comparisons

Author: Hornsby, Stephen (editor)
Author: Reid, John G.

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 57431351

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Collection of essays by various scholars on New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island - critical geographies to what has emerged in historical studies in recent decades as the field of North American "borderland studies."…

Crossing the Divide : Representations of Deafness in Biography

Author: Hartig, Rachel Mildred

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 69104286

An exploration of the lives and texts of three francophone biographers, each struggling in her own way through the difficulties of deafness. Includes a segment on Franco American author Corinne Rocheleau-Rouleau. From Gallaudet University Press:…

Tags: Canada, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Illness, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, United States

More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women

Author: Kennedy, Kate

Date: 2005

Language: en

Find in a Library: 58051314

Find Online: OL3420598M

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A collection of biographical sketches of Maine women with unique accomplishments, and of those who have made significant contributions to their communities and to the state at large. One of the many books in the "More than Petticoats" series, the…

Tags: Acadians, Aroostook County ME, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Eagle Island ME, Family, Farmington ME, Gender and Sexuality, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portland ME, Religion, Rockland ME, Skowhegan ME, South Berwick ME

Minority Women of North America : A Comparison of French-Canadian and Afro-American women

Author: Bystydzienski, Jill M.

Date: 1985

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 15

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60621291, 3364885, 31186541

A comparison of the historical situations and social positions of French Canadian and African American women. An examination of their family and community roles, cultural stereotypes, and social and politicals achievement levels. Situates the origins…

Tags: African Americans, Canada, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, QuÃ©bec, United States, Violence

Kerouac in Black and White

Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 2008 Spring/Summer

Language: English

Find in a Library: 224383030

An essay in exploration of Jack Kerouac's French-Canadianness in twentieth-century America. How digging into this particular ethnicity, time, and place shapes how one considers Kerouac's late-life ideas about race, his relationship with religion, or…

Tags: Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Louisiana, New England, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, United States, Violence

Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire : Vivre La DiffeÌrence

Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 2010

Language: en

Find in a Library: 664354634

Find Online: OL24384830M

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An intimately crafted Franco American cultural history of Manchester, New Hampshire, written by one of its resident historians. From the author of such works as "One Piece in the Great American Mosaic," "La Presse Franco-AmÃ©ricaine et La…

Tags: Art and Architecture, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, Violence

Cotton Was King : A History of Lowell, Massachusetts

Author: Eno, Arthur L. Jr.

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2942452

Find Online: OL8319368M

A collection of 14 essays on the history of Chelmsford and Lowell, Massachusetts, from pre-incorporation to industrialization, into the middle 20th century. As the title suggests, an emphasis on the prevalence of mill work and immigrants cultures…

Saved

Author: Falla, Jack

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: 171584739

Novel about longtime friends that become professional hockey players and end up playing against one another in the deepest of rivalries. Flashbacks into the hockey of the Lewiston, Maine, of their youth. From MacMillan Books: "Veteran Boston…

Tags: Boston MA, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Fiction, MontrÃ©al QC, Sports and Leisure

The Delights of Democracy : The Triumph of American Politics

Author: Potholm, Christian

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49332477

A collection of short essays that examines American politics through the lens of the political arena in the state of Maine. Written by a Bowdoin College professor of government and legal studies. Contains a few brief chapters devoted specifically to…

Tags: Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, United States

Marie Blythe

Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1983

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8845460

One of Mosher's time-tested Vermont stories, again set in his fictional Kingdom County. About a young French Canadian emigrant who endures hardship from the very beginnings of her life in the United States. Republished in 2004, to the Hardscrabble…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Fiction, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Vermont, Youth

Responding to Ethnicity: Franco-American Studies in Maine

Author: Langellier, Kristin M.

Date: 1996

Book Title: Logon Didonai: GesprÃ¤ch und Verantwortung

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35227497

Essay discussing the particular engagements - with theory, academia, community - of Franco-American Studies initiatives at the University of Maine. How community/classroom collaborative programming and discussion-based research participate in what…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Education, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Orono ME, Social History

Becoming Holy in Early Canada : Performance and the Making of Holy Persons in Society and Culture

Author: Pearson, Timothy G.

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: McGill University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 316104083, 286063547

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From the author: "In this dissertation, I analyze how local religious figures became holy and the social functions they played, in order to better understand the connections between religion and colonialism and the shaping of faith communities over…

Tags: Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Exploration and Colonization, France, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History

"Accidents of terrain" : The native and foreign worlds of David Plante

Author: Aylward, Susan L.

Date: 1998

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English

Institution: University of Rhode Island

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40702182

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From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, United States

Memento Mori

Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2001 October/November

Publication: Eclectica

Volume: 5

Language: English

Find in a Library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370158292

Short story about the appearances of a stray dog coinciding with a young man's confrontations with death. Throughout the story, especially while reckoning with the fatal illness of his once lively mother, the man struggles through a disabling…

Tags: Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Maine, New England

'Marie-Rose, StigmatisÃ©e de Woonsocket' : The Construction of a Franco-American Saint Cult, 1930-1955

Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12864095

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From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Ogdensburg NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History, War, Woonsocket RI

Franco-American Women's Literary Tradition : A Central Piece in the Region's Literary Mosaic

Author: Robbins, Rhea CoÌ‚tÃ©

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue riviÃ¨re

Volume: 5

Language: English and franÃ§ais

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical piece on the lives and literatures of three Franco American authors - Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, and Grace Metalious. Argument claiming the existence of a Franco American women's literary tradition, the…

Tags: Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Manchester NH, New England, QuÃ©bec, Worcester MA

Resistance and Resilience in 'Wednesday's Child' : The Franco-American Memories of a Maine Woman

Author: Rice-DeFosse, Mary

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue riviÃ¨re

Volume: 5

Language: English and franÃ§ais

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical essay on Waterville, Maine writer Rhea CoÌ‚tÃ© Robbins' 1997 memoir, "Wednesday's Child." Explores Robbins' work as it speaks newly to concepts of gender, cultural difference, and the specificity of a Franco American's experiences of…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New England, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Waterville ME

Portrait of the Artist : Interview with David Plante

Author: Hamburger, Aaron

Date: 2005 April/May

Publication: Lamba Book Report

Volume: 13

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60637124

Interview with Providence, Rhode Island, native and professor of creative writing at Columbia University, David Plante, whose works of fiction have achieved wide acclaim since the 1970s. Plante answers questions about gay writing, his education,…

Tags: Education, Europe, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Other, New York NY, Religion, Rhode Island

"I Learned Things Today That I Never Knew Before": Oral History at the Kitchen Table

Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1996 December

Publication: The Oral History Review

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1793844, 45954894

Historiographical essay on the dearth and fragmentation of source material relevant to working class Franco Americans - especially Franco American women. Considers the published reality that is "la survivance" in relation to the lived realities of…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Frenchtown ME, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham ME, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Social History, Westbrook ME

Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: The Quiet Evolution of French-Canadian Immigrants in New England

Author: Shideler, Janet Lee

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32273493

The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a quÃ©bÃ©coise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History

First-Person America

Author: Banks, Ann

Date: 1980 (1991)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6448346

Find Online: OL7452912M

Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers…

Vows : The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son

Author: Manseau, Peter

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60373489

The biography of a Catholic nun and a Catholic priest in Boston, Massachusetts - their work and their faith, their marriage and their family - written by their son. Moves through the author's youth and his own unique relationship with faith and…

Tags: Amherst MA, Boston MA, Dorchester MA, Family, Framingham MA, Gender and Sexuality, Lowell MA, Medford MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Roxbury MA, Social History, Somerville MA, United States

Priest: A Tale of Repressed Identity: How I Became a Catholic Priest

Author: Fillion, Maurice C.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 72521692

Autobiography of a New Hampshire man and his "search for personal identity" through ethnicity and religion, in and out of the lifestyle of a Roman Catholic Priest. From the back cover: "Maurice Fillion was five when his father died. Singled out by…

Tags: Berlin NH, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham NH, Hudson NH, Lowell MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Shelburne NH, Youth

Calico Bush

Author: Field, Rachel

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4411669

Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…

Tags: Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Literary Works -- Fiction, Maine, Native Americans, Social History, Young Adult Literature, Youth

Hard Work

Author: Sharkey, Jim (writer & producer)

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 661411507

Full title of the film: "Hard Work: 'To Make Both Ends Meet' : Maine Women's Voices, 1888." From Folkfilms.com: "In 1888 the Maine State Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics conducted a survey to assess working conditions for women in the…

Tags: Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History

The Belles of New England

Author: Moran, William (speaker)

Date: 2002 October 26

Language: English

Find in a Library: 174144-1 (C-SPAN Video Library)

A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile…

Prejudice and Pride : Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945

Author: BeÌlanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2011

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466659872

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From University of Toronto Press: "As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Labor History, Nonfiction -- History -- Intellectual, Social History, United States

The Quaint Canadians of New England Towns; Among the Young Girls Fine Dress Is a Mania. All Their Lives the Women Work Hard, but the Native Tongue and Religion Are Not Allowed to be Forgotten.

Author: Wiggin, P.G.

Date: 1901 December 15

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Descriptive, ethnographic New York Times feature article on "French-Canadian women" from youth to old age in New England. The author considers the Franco-American working woman a peculiarly American character, and the French-Canadian American mother…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Bar Harbor ME, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Newport RI

AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: Places that provided common heritage gone or declining

Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 24

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Part 4 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 4 includes two pieces: one acknowledging the vast changes that have taken place in…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Augusta ME, Clubs and Societies, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Sand Hill ME

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Inside Peyton Place : The Life of Grace Metalious

New England and the Maritime Provinces : Connections and Comparisons

Crossing the Divide : Representations of Deafness in Biography

More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women

Minority Women of North America : A Comparison of French-Canadian and Afro-American women

Kerouac in Black and White

Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire : Vivre La DiffeÌrence

Cotton Was King : A History of Lowell, Massachusetts

Saved

The Delights of Democracy : The Triumph of American Politics

Marie Blythe

Responding to Ethnicity: Franco-American Studies in Maine

Becoming Holy in Early Canada : Performance and the Making of Holy Persons in Society and Culture

"Accidents of terrain" : The native and foreign worlds of David Plante

Memento Mori

'Marie-Rose, StigmatisÃ©e de Woonsocket' : The Construction of a Franco-American Saint Cult, 1930-1955

Franco-American Women's Literary Tradition : A Central Piece in the Region's Literary Mosaic

Resistance and Resilience in 'Wednesday's Child' : The Franco-American Memories of a Maine Woman

Portrait of the Artist : Interview with David Plante

"I Learned Things Today That I Never Knew Before": Oral History at the Kitchen Table

Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: The Quiet Evolution of French-Canadian Immigrants in New England

First-Person America

Vows : The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son

Priest: A Tale of Repressed Identity: How I Became a Catholic Priest

Calico Bush

Hard Work

The Belles of New England

Prejudice and Pride : Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945

The Quaint Canadians of New England Towns; Among the Young Girls Fine Dress Is a Mania. All Their Lives the Women Work Hard, but the Native Tongue and Religion Are Not Allowed to be Forgotten.

AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: Places that provided common heritage gone or declining