Born in Rimouski, Quebec, she was writing for local newspapers while just a teenager using a multitude of pen names. She wrote and edited the women’s pages for La Patrie for 19 years, using the pen name Madeleine. Gleason, also wrote for Le Monde Illustré and Le Courriere de Rimouski. In 1939 she founded La Bonne Parole (published until 1958). With her husband, Dr. Wilfred Huguenin, she founded Le Revue Moderne and Le Nigog magazines in 1918. In 1923 she created La Vie Canadienne magazine which merged with La Revue Moderne in 1929. By 1934 she was literary editor of Action conservative, a political and literary weekly. Between 1897 and 1943 she published more than 3,000 columns and articles in addition to giving lectures and talks. Gleason also authored several books, including Premier Péché (1902), Le long du chemin. (1912), Le meilleur du sol (1924) and portraits du femmes (1938), plus two plays - L’Adieu du poéte (1902) and En plaine glories! (1919). Her novel Anne Mérivel, appeared in La Revue Moderne but was never published as a book. A street in Rimouski and Montreal was named in her honour