From Ginevra, or from Geneviève, Toward Potential Happiness...
In 1902, Georgina Lefaivre began writing for a number of periodicals. She made journalism her profession in 1905, the year she started writing for Le Soleil, a daily newspaper based in Québec, the city where she was born. She contributed short columns until 1922. In 1919, Ginevra published a book entitled En relisant les vieilles pages, which contained short texts published between 1906 and 1918. In 1922, under another pseudonym, she published a second collection titled Billets de Geneviève. Education focused on happiness through the preparation for roles traditionally assigned to girls forms the framework of her observations. Aspiring to a discreet and modest happiness would be the secret to avoiding all that is inevitable in the daily life of wives, and especially of mothers, which the majority of these girls will become. Several themes are recurrent in the two collections, modernity and the influence of the neighbouring United States make an appearance in the second one.