Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard was a Canadian poet, and the first published female poet of the Québec region of Canada.
Background
She was born in Les Escoumins, Québec, and attended various convent schools before taking classes around 1910 at the École d"enseignement secondaire pour les jeunes filles (which became the Collège Marguerite-Bourgeoys in 1926 and borrowed much of its curriculum from Université Laval).
Education
She may have studied literature at the University of Montreal.
Career
She is also the first woman to have faced literary criticism without using a pseudonym. She belongs to Québec"s regionalist school of writing and drew largely upon the folklore of the Gaspé peninsula.
