In the mid‐1860s, Georgiana Charlebois signed her first contributions to Le Nord, Le Messager de Joliette and Le Courrier de Saint Hyacinthe under the pseudonym “Graziella.” In the 1870s, she appeared on the list of contributors to L’Album de la Minerve and Le Foyer Domestique and also published occasionally in La Gazette d’Ottawa. Well known in literary circles and in the press, today her name has disappeared from literary history. This article explores her career, her writings and her impact on the literary milieu and, more generally, on the phenomenon of official collaborators of the press in the 1860s and 1870s. We look beyond Charlebois’ obvious privileging of a particular female culture in her writings and examine the role played by women in periodicals during these pivotal years for women’s literary history in Québec. How did Georgiana Charlebois carve out a place for herself in this masculine universe? What is the nature of her contribution? What impact did her career have on those women who would create women’s pages and feminine newspapers in subsequent decades?