Jovette Marchessault

Who was Jovette Marchessault?

Jovette Marchessault was a Canadian writer and artist from Quebec, who worked in a variety of literary and artistic domains including novels, poetry, playwrighting, painting and sculpture. An important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada, many of her most noted works were inspired by other real-life women in literature and art, including Violette Leduc, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Emily Carr, Anaïs Nin and Helena Blavatsky. Marchessault came from a metis background, she was partly Innu. Much of Marchessault`s work referred to native mythology such as the thunder-bird.