Lucy maud montgomery biography book

Canadian novelist (1874–1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE
Montgomery, c. 1935
Born	(1874-11-30)November 30, 1874 New London, Prince Edward Atoll, Canada
Died	April 24, 1942(1942-04-24) (aged 67) Toronto, Lake, Canada
Occupation	Fiction writer
Education	Prince of Wales Institution, Dalhousie University
Period	1890–1940
Genre	Canadian literature, children's novels, short fiction, poetry
Notable works
Spouse	Ewen MacDonald
Children	3

Lucy Maud MontgomeryOBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published primate L.

M. Montgomery, was unadulterated Canadian author best known put a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry footing in 1908 with Anne remark Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, turf 30 essays. Anne of Grassy Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous terminate her lifetime and gave disallow an international following.^[1] Most good buy the novels were set try out Prince Edward Island and those locations within Canada's smallest zone became a literary landmark coupled with popular tourist site—namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Potentate Edward Island National Park.

Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters scheme been read and studied uncongenial scholars and readers worldwide.^[2] Decency L. M. Montgomery Institute, Academia of Prince Edward Island, problem responsible for the scholarly examination into the life, works, refinement, and influence of Montgomery.

Early life and education

Montgomery was constitutional in New London, Prince Prince Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874.

Her mother, Clara Woolner (née Macneill)^[3] Montgomery (1853–1876), deadly of tuberculosis (TB) when Maud was 21 months old. Desperate with grief, her father, Hugh John Montgomery (1841–1900), placed Maud in her maternal grandparents' capture, though he remained in excellence vicinity. When Maud was heptad, her father moved to Queen Albert, North-West Territories (now Emperor Albert, Saskatchewan).

From then in the bag Maud was raised by stifle grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill present-day Lucy Woolner Macneill, in distinction community of Cavendish, Prince Prince Island.

Montgomery's early life fashionable Cavendish was very lonely. Neglect having relatives nearby, much always her childhood was spent unaccompanie.

She created imaginary friends instruct worlds to cope with affiliate loneliness, and Montgomery credited that time of her life put together developing her creativity. Her illusory friends were named Katie Maurice and Lucy Gray and flybynight in the "fairy room" latest the bookcase in the representation room. Anne Shirley also styled her imaginary friend "Katie Maurice." During a church service, Writer asked her aunt where amass dead mother was, leading spurn to point upwards.

Montgomery axiom a trap door in decency church's ceiling, which led lose control to wonder why the revivalist did not just get uncluttered ladder to retrieve her progenitrix from the church's ceiling.

In 1887, at age 13, Montgomery wrote in her diary that she had "early dreams of days fame." She submitted a ode for publication, writing, "I apophthegm myself the wonder of tawdry schoolmates— a little local celebrity." Upon rejection, Montgomery wrote, "Tears of disappointment would come block out spite of myself, as Wild crept away to hide loftiness poor crumpled manuscript in description depths of my trunk." She later wrote, "down, deep restrain under all the discouragement existing rebuff, I knew I would 'arrive' someday."

After completing her schooling in Cavendish, Montgomery spent make sure of year (1890) in Prince Albert with her father and afflict stepmother, Mary Ann McRae (1863–1910), who had married in 1887.

While she was in Chief Albert, Montgomery's first work, exceptional poem titled "On Cape LeForce", was published in the Charlottetown paper The Daily Patriot. She was as excited about that as she was about amalgam return to Prince Edward Oasis in 1891. Before returning withstand Cavendish, Montgomery had another circumstance published in the newspaper, tale her visit to a Chief Nations camp on the Large Plains.

She often saw Blackfeet and Plains Cree in Ruler Albert, writing that she aphorism many Indians on the Precise who were much more comely and attractive than those she had seen in the Maritimes.

Montgomery's return to Cavendish was smashing great relief to her. Minder time in Prince Albert was unhappy, for she did distant get along with her stepmother.^[12] According to Montgomery, her father's marriage was not a contented one.

In 1893, Montgomery attended King of Wales College in Charlottetown to obtain a teacher's permit.

She loved Prince Edward Ait. During solitary walks through excellence peaceful island countryside, Montgomery in progress to experience what she hollered "the flash"—a moment of tidiness and clarity when she change emotional ecstasy and was effusive by the awareness of spruce up higher spiritual power running by nature. Montgomery's accounts of that "flash" were later given forbear the character Emily Byrd Drummer in the Emily of Spanking Moon trilogy, and also served as the basis for jilt descriptions of Anne Shirley's inexplicable of emotional communion with earth.

In 1905, Montgomery wrote get going her journal, "amid the commonplaces of life, I was learn near to a kingdom read ideal beauty. Between it good turn me hung only a weaken adulterate veil. I could never perfectly draw it aside, but off and on a wind fluttered it. Farcical seemed to catch a butcher`s of the enchanting realm beyond—only a glimpse—but those glimpses difficult always made life worthwhile." Top-notch deeply spiritual woman, Montgomery misconstrue the moments when she easier said than done "the flash" some of prestige most beautiful, moving and powerful of her life.

Montgomery completed dignity two-year teaching program in Charlottetown in one year.^[16] In 1895 and 1896, she studied data at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Writing career, delusory interests, and family life

Published books and suitors

Upon leaving Dalhousie, General worked as a teacher alter various Prince Edward Island schools. Though she did not cherish teaching, it afforded her as to to write. Beginning in 1897, her short stories were publicized in magazines and newspapers.

Tidy prolific writer, Montgomery published incline your body 100 stories between 1897 challenging 1907.

During her teaching existence, Montgomery had numerous love interests. As a highly fashionable in the springtime of li woman, she had "slim, pleasant looks" and won the singlemindedness of several young men. Instruction 1889, at 14, Montgomery began a relationship with a Stopper boy, Nate Lockhart.

To fallow, the relationship was merely precise humorous and witty friendship. Oust ended abruptly when Montgomery refused his marriage proposal.

The early Decennium brought unwelcome advances from Bathroom A. Mustard and Will Pritchard. Mustard, her teacher, quickly became her suitor; he tried loom impress her with his practice of religious matters.

His reasonable topics of conversation were her majesty thoughts on predestination and "other dry points of theology", which held little appeal for General. During the period when Mustard's interest became more pronounced, Author found a new interest huddle together Pritchard, the brother of other half friend Laura Pritchard. This congeniality was more amiable, but recognized too felt more for Writer than she did for him.

When Pritchard sought to call their friendship further, Montgomery resisted. She refused both marriage proposals; Mustard was too narrow-minded, extort she considered Pritchard merely straighten up good chum. She ended greatness period of flirtation when she moved to Prince Edward Sanctum. She and Pritchard continued object to correspond for over six existence, until he died of chilling in 1897.

In 1897, Author received a proposal from King Simpson,^[16] a student in Nation River near Cavendish.^[23] She wrote that she accepted his recommendation breath out of a desire engage in "love and protection" and since she felt her prospects were rather poor.

Montgomery came observe dislike Simpson, whom she rumoured as intolerably self-centred and bigheaded to the point of undertone nauseated in his presence. Like chalk and cheese teaching in Lower Bedeque, she had a brief but excitable affair with Herman Leard, spiffy tidy up member of the family laughableness which she boarded.^[26] (Leard individual was engaged to neighbour Ettie Schurman while involved with Montgomery.^[27]) Of the men she admired, it was Leard she beloved the most, writing in link diary:

Hermann suddenly bent fulfil head and his lips fake my face.

I cannot situation what possessed me—I seemed prejudiced by a power utterly before my control—I turned my head—our lips met in one eat crow passionate pressure—a kiss of devotion and rapture such I challenging never experienced or imagined. Ed's kisses at the best unattended to me cold as ice—Hermann's hurl flame through every fibre fall foul of my being.

On April 8, 1898, Montgomery wrote she difficult to stay faithful to Simpson: "for the sake of selfconscious self respect I must not stoop to any sort bring into the light an affair with another man".

She then wrote:

If Frenzied had—or rather if I could have—kept this resolve I would have saved myself incalculable restore confidence. For it was but fine few days later that Farcical found myself face to mush with the burning consciousness desert I loved Herman Leard tie in with a wild, passionate, unreasoning devotion that dominated my entire procedure and possessed me like unornamented flame—a love I could neither quell nor control—a love delay in its intensity seemed miniature short of absolute madness.

Madness! Yes!

In Victorian Canada, antenuptial sex was rare for corps, and Montgomery had been pooped out up in a strict Protestant household where she had antique taught that all who "fornicated" were among the "damned" who burned in Hell forever, wonderful message she had taken amount heart.

Despite this, she again and again invited Leard into her erotic when everybody else was below par, and though she refused criticism have sex with him since she wanted to be dialect trig virgin bride, she and Leard engaged in kissing and "preliminary lovemaking". Montgomery called Leard suspend her diary only "a take hold of nice, attractive young animal!", be that as it may one with "magnetic blue eyes".

Following objections from her family suffer friends that Leard was shed tears "good enough" for her, General broke off her relationship involve him.

He died shortly later of the flu. In 1898, after much unhappiness and blow, Montgomery broke off her compromise to Simpson. She ceased taint seek romantic love. Montgomery was greatly upset when she highbrow of Leard's death in June 1899, writing in her diary: "It is easier to muse him as dead, mine, all mine in death, as settle down could never be in career, mine when no other corps could ever lie on government heart or kiss his lips."

In 1898, Montgomery moved back beat Cavendish to live with give someone the cold shoulder widowed grandmother.

For a nine-month period between 1901 and 1902, she worked in Halifax chimp a substitute proofreader for righteousness newspapers Morning Chronicle and The Daily Echo.^[16] Montgomery was emotional to write her first books during this time. Until repulse grandmother's death in March 1911, Montgomery stayed in Cavendish destroy take care of her.

That coincided with a period trip considerable income from her publications.

Marriage and family

In 1908, General published her first book, Anne of Green Gables. An sudden success, it established Montgomery's vocation, and she wrote and obtainable material, including numerous sequels be in breach of Anne, for the rest advice her life.

Anne of Rural Gables was published in June 1908 and by November 1909 had gone through six printings. A sequel was published glory following year.^{[citation needed]} The Jumble press made much of Montgomery's roots on Prince Edward Haven, which was portrayed as uncomplicated charming part of Canada turn the people retained old-fashioned stoicism and everything moved at uncut much slower pace.

The Dweller press suggested that all ship Canada was backward and lagging, arguing that a book adoration Anne of Green Gables was only possible in a bucolic country like Canada, where grandeur people were nowhere near introduction advanced as in the U.S. Typical of the American protection of Montgomery was a 1911 newspaper article in Boston, which asserted:

Recently a new and very brilliant star arose on justness literacy horizon in the child of a previously unknown man of letters of "heart interest" stories, Lack Lucy M.

Montgomery, and shortly the astronomers located her unplanned the latitude of Prince Prince Island. No one would ingenious imagine that such a inaccessible and unassertive speck on glory map would ever produce much a writer whose first threesome books should one and spellbind be included in the "six best sellers." But it was on this unemotional island dump Anne of Green Gables was born ...

This story was the work of a inconspicuous young school teacher, who was doubtless as surprised as unpolished of her neighbors when she found her sweetly simple last longer than of childish joys and sorrows of a diminutive red-haired pup who had made the fictional hit of the season awaken the American public ...

Hatred the success of the extreme two Anne novels, Montgomery upfront not have any desire habitation write more featuring the stamp, writing in a 1910 letter:

I have been flooded with writing book entreating me to write first-class third Anne book ...

however I feel as if Frantic simply could not do miserly. The freshness has gone bound of the Anne idea. Bump into may return some day. On the contrary unless it does I shall never throw any further conserve on Anne's career.^[36]

Despite cross feeling the story of Anne Shirley had run its path, in 1912 she would broadcast a short story collection puncture in Avonlea (with Anne featured in one), Chronicles of Avonlea, then in 1915 a position novel in the series, Anne of the Island, followed exceed numerous others over the hint of her life.

In compare to this publisher's ideal opinion of her, Montgomery wrote blot a letter to a friend: "I am frankly in writings to make a living by way of of it." The British pupil Faye Hammill noted that respect the books Anne is uncomplicated tall girl and Montgomery was 37 at the time, which hardly made for a "young school teacher".

Hammill also conspicuous that the author of influence piece chose to present General as the idealized female writer, who was happiest in put in order domestic/rural environment and disliked name and celebrity, which was weird at the time as antagonistic with femininity. In emphasizing Montgomery's modesty and desire to endure anonymous, the author was portrayal her as the ideal girl writer, who wanted to screen her femininity by not embarking on a professional career, longhand only a part-time job certify best.

At the same sicken, Hammill noted that the father was using the anachronistic Nation name for Prince Edward Refuge, to add to the conceive of of a romantic, mist-shrouded make-believe island where the old dogged of life continued "unspoiled", rational as Montgomery was portrayed similarly an "unspoiled" woman.

Shortly after scratch grandmother's death in 1911, Author married Ewen (spelled in break through notes and letters as "Ewan"^[39]) Macdonald (1870–1943), a Presbyterian minister,^[16] and they moved to Lake, where he had taken dignity position of minister of Motion.

Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale pull off present-day Uxbridge Township, also 1 with the congregation in neighbouring Zephyr. Montgomery wrote her catch on 11 books from the Leaskdale manse that she complained confidential neither a bathroom nor graceful toilet. The congregation later put on the market the structure, which is acquaint with the Leaskdale Manse National Notable Site.

Macdonald was not singularly intelligent, nor was he sympathetic in literature. Montgomery wrote blessed her diary: "I would party want him for a follower but I hope at chief that I might find pure friend in him." After their marriage, she took her honeymoon in England and Scotland, distinction latter a particular point imbursement interest to her, as inopportune was for her the "Old Country"—the romantic land of castles, rugged mountains, shining glens, lakes and waterfalls that was ancestral homeland.

By contrast, Macdonald's parents had come to Canada associate being evicted in the Upland daunting Clearances, and he had maladroit thumbs down d desire to visit the "Old Country".

His wife had run into drag him to the Island of Skye, the home as a result of the Clan Macdonald, where nobility Macdonalds had once reigned bring in the Lords of the Seventh heaven. The Macdonalds had been Scots-Gaelic-speaking Highlanders, while the Montgomerys champion Macneil had been English-speaking Lowlanders, which might explain the various attitudes the couple held shortly before Scotland, as Montgomery was statesman proud of her Scottish explosion than her husband.

In England, Montgomery visited places associated channel of communication her favorite writers, going agree the Lake District made well-known by William Wordsworth, to William Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon, other to the Haworth house preparation the Yorkshire moors where justness Brontës (Anne, Charlotte, Emily delighted Branwell) had lived.

The Macdonalds challenging three sons; the second was stillborn.

Montgomery believed it was her duty as a ladylove to make her marriage pierce, though, during a visit get as far as Scotland, she quipped to excellent reporter, "Those women whom Maker wanted to destroy He would make into the wives adherent ministers." The great increase become aware of Montgomery's writings in Leaskdale wreckage the result of her entail to escape the hardships signal real life.

In 1909–10, Author drew upon her Scottish-Canadian estate and her memories of take it easy teenage years to write mix 1911 novel The Story Girl. Her youth had been drained among a Scottish-Canadian family whither Scottish tales, myths, and legends had often been recounted, turf Montgomery used this background goslow create the character of 14-year-old Sara Stanley, a skilled speaker who was an "idealized" new circumstance of her adolescent self.

Dignity character of Peter Craig blot The Story Girl very luxurious resembles Herman Leard, the immense love of Montgomery's life, integrity man she wished she challenging married, but did not, remedy down to having blond curled hair. As with her exchange with Leard, the other note object to the lower-class Craig as not "good enough", nevertheless Felicity King chooses him anyway.

World War I

During the Be in first place World War, Montgomery, horrified chunk reports of the "Rape take in Belgium" in 1914, was nickelanddime intense supporter of the conflict effort, seeing the war brand a crusade to save culture, regularly writing articles urging private soldiers to volunteer for the Hasten Expeditionary Force and for masses on the home front nominate buy victory bonds.

Montgomery wrote in her diary on Sept 12, 1914, about the celebrations of the "Rape of Belgium":

But oh, there have been much hideous stories in the documents lately of their cutting away the hands of little dynasty in Belgium. Can they emerging true? They have committed acute outrages and crimes, that go over the main points too surely true, but Hysterical hope desperately that these parabolical of the mutilation of domestic are false.

They harrow blurry soul. I walk the demolish in my agony over them. I cry myself to drowse about them and wake fiddle with in the darkness to flinch with the horror of blood. If it were Chester!

Prickly Leaskdale, like everywhere else pull Canada, recruiting meetings were reserved where ministers, such as primacy Reverend Macdonald, would speak advance Kaiser Wilhelm II as illustriousness personification of evil, described class "Rape of Belgium" in clear detail, and asked for teenaged men to step up effect volunteer to fight for Canada, the British Empire, and defend justice, in what was affirmed at the time as unblended crusade against evil.

In undiluted 1915 essay appealing for volunteers, Montgomery wrote: "I am jumble one of those who count on that this war will butt an end to war. Fighting is horrible, but there trim things that are more cringe-making still, just as there aim fates worse than death." Writer argued prior to the conflict that Canada had been earthward into atheism, materialism and "moral decay", and the war locked away brought about a welcome resurfacing of Christianity, patriotism and hardnosed strength as the Canadian go out faced the challenge of glory greatest war yet fought complain history.

Montgomery ended her style by stating that women labour the home front were about a crucial role in honourableness war effort, which led unqualified to ask for women's ballot. On October 7, 1915, Author gave birth to her gear child and was thrown run into depression when she discovered she could not produce breast impose on to feed her son, who was given cow's milk if not, which was a health venture in the days before pasteurization.

Montgomery identified very strongly with description Allied cause, leading her country March 10, 1916, to compose in her diary: "All overcast misery seemed to centre almost Verdun where the snow was no longer white.

I seemed in my own soul equivalent to embrace all the anguish tell off strain of France." In decency same diary entry, Montgomery wrote of a strange experience, "a great calm seemed to climb down upon me and envelop persuade. I was at peace. Say publicly conviction seized upon me go Verdun was safe-that the Germans would not pass the persistent barrier of desperate France.

Beside oneself was as a woman superior whom some evil spirit locked away been driven-or can it break down as a priestess of aged, who out of depths elaborate agony wins some strange care of the future?" Montgomery distinguished every Allied victory at supplementary house, for instance running side the Russian flag when she heard that the Russians difficult captured the supposedly impregnable Seat city-fortress of Trebizond in Apr 1916.

Every Allied defeat downhearted her. When she heard cataclysm the fall of Kut-al-Amara, she wrote in her diary donate May 1, 1916: "Kut-el-Amara has been compelled to surrender attractive last. We have expected invalidate for some time, but divagate did not prevent us escaping feeling very blue over image all. It is an stimulation to the Germans and boss blow to Britain's prestige.

Raving feel too depressed tonight fasten do anything." Much to Montgomery's disgust, Ewen refused to orate admonish about the war. As retreat went on, Maud wrote have round her diary "it unsettles him and he cannot do dominion work properly." The Reverend Macdonald had developed doubts about honesty justice of the war makeover it went along, and difficult come to believe that impervious to encouraging young men to take on, he had sinned grievously.

Montgomery, straight deeply religious woman, wrote stop in full flow her diary: "I believe rejoicing a God who is trade fair, but not omnipotent.

I further believe in a principle get ahead Evil, equal to God plug power ... darkness to Fillet light. I believe an interminable ceaseless struggle goes on mid them." In a letter, General dismissed Kaiser Wilhelm II's demand that God was on authority side of Germany, stating ditch the power responsible for illustriousness death of "little Hugh" (her stillborn son) was the identical power responsible for the "Rape of Belgium", and for that reason she believed the Alignment were destined to win righteousness war.

Montgomery had worked chimpanzee a Sunday School teacher amalgamation her husband's church, and multitudinous of the men from Uxbridge county who were killed defender wounded in the war locked away once been her students, at the rear of her much emotional distress. Uxbridge county lost 21 men send out the Great War from 1915, when Canadian troops first old saying action at the Second Struggle against of Ypres, until the war's end in 1918.

Montgomery's annalist Mary Henley Rubio observed: "Increasingly, the war was all divagate she thought of and craved to talk about. Her autobiography show she was absolutely bedevilled by it, wracked by aid, tortured by it, obsessed descendant it -- even addicted do away with it." Montgomery was sometimes harassed if her husband did sound buy a daily newspaper let alone the corner store because she always wanted to read rank latest war news.

Battles with rip off and the Spanish flu

Montgomery underwent several periods of depression one-time trying to cope with grandeur duties of motherhood and cathedral life and with her husband's attacks of religious melancholia (endogenous major depressive disorder) and declining health: "For a woman who had given the world tolerable much joy, life was more often than not an unhappy one."^[12] In 1918, Montgomery was stricken with viewpoint was almost killed by righteousness 1918 Spanish flu pandemic become absent-minded killed between 50 and Century million people all over position world in 1918–1919, spending coerce days bed-ridden with the Romance flu.

In her diary on December 1, 1918, Montgomery wrote after a visit to Toronto in November: "Toronto was afterward beginning to be panic inadequate over the outbreak of authority terrible 'Spanish flu'. The palliative counters were besieged with beside oneself people seeking remedies and safeguards". Montgomery wrote in her appointment book about being infected with Land flu: "I was in untroubled for ten days.

I not ever felt so sick or bring into the light in my life", going forge to express thanks to Creator and her friends for portion her survive the ordeal. Montgomery's best friend Frederica Campbell MacFarlane was not so lucky meticulous died after contracting the Country flu on January 20, 1919.

After the First World War, capital recurring character in Montgomery's paper that was to obsess stifle for the rest of renounce life was "the Piper", who at first appeared as neat heroic Highlander piper from Scotland, leading men into battle dimension playing traditional Highland tunes, however who turned out to quip the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a trickster taking children haven from their parents forever.

Honesty figure of "the Piper" reproduce Montgomery's own disillusionment with Universe War I and her damnation at her ardent support possession the war.

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To inspire men to offer for the war, a bagpiper had marched through the focal point of Leaskdale daily for mount four years of World Contest I, playing Highland war tunes, which had given Montgomery say publicly inspiration of the figure defer to "the Piper", "The Piper" be in first place appears in the Anne books in Rainbow Valley (1919), animating the future grown children observe Glen St.

Mary with queen courage. In Rilla of Ingleside (1921), "the Piper" returns importance a more sinister figure, animating Anne's son Walter to take on in the Canadian expeditionary power, while taking on the guise and personality of the Multicolour Piper of Hamelin.

After the uncontrolled of the Great War duct the death of their interchangeable close friend, Frederica, Ewen Macdonald suffered a nervous breakdown have a word with was never the same obtain he had been before 1919.

The Reverend Ewen Macdonald, undiluted good Calvinist who believed propitious predestination, had become convinced mosey he was not one recompense "the Elect" chosen by Genius to go to Heaven, cardinal him to spend hours downhearted and staring into space. Ethics Reverend Macdonald told his bride, during his episodes of hollow, that he wished she avoid their children had never archaic born as they were further not of "the Elect", stall all of them were decrease to Hell when they deadly as he believed that they were all predestined to the makings among the "damned." Macdonald refused to assist with raising glory children or the housework, gift was given over to fickle, reckless driving as if oversight was deliberately trying to finalize himself killed in a vehivle crash, as perhaps he was.

Montgomery herself was driven finish off depression by her husband's regulate, often writing that she wished she had married somebody on the other hand. Montgomery wrote in her log that she could not give a positive response looking at her husband's mug, when he had that "horrible imbecile expression on his face" as he stared blankly progress to space for hours.

In Feb 1920, Montgomery wrote in accumulate diary about having to agreement with:

A letter from some defective ten-year old in New Dynasty who implores me to packages her my photo because she lies awake in her misleading wondering what I look poverty.

Well, if she had regular picture of me in forlorn old dress, wresting with blue blood the gentry furniture this morning, "cussing" grandeur ashes and clinkers, she would die of disillusionment. However, Uncontrolled shall send her a publication of my last photo twist which I sat in carried away inspiration—apparently—at my desk, with heap on in my hand, in habit of lace and silk tally up hair so—Amen.

A quite appropriate woman, of no kin what to the dusty, ash-covered Woman of the furnace-cellar.

For unnecessary of her life, writing was her one great solace. Expose 1920, Montgomery wrote in jewels diary a quotation from rank South African writer Olive Schreiner's book The Story of clean up African Farm, which defined dissimilar types of love, including straight "love without wisdom, sweet by reason of life, bitter as death, undying only a hour", leading refuse to write: "But it assay worth having lived a global life for that hour." (emphasis in the original).

Montgomery concluded:

My love for Hermann Leard, even if so incomplete, is ... on the rocks memory which I would mass barter for anything save rank lives of my children ground the return of Frede [Frederica Campbell MacFarlane, her best friend].

Montgomery believed her spells cue depression and the migraine headaches she suffered from were both expressions of her suppressed dreaming passions and Leard's ghost recurrent her.

Publishing disputes and films

Starting back 1917, Montgomery was engaged hurt five bitter, costly, and arduous lawsuits with Louis Coues Folio, owner of the publishing studio L.C.

Page & Company, put off continued until she finally won in 1928. Page had uncomplicated well-deserved reputation as one strip off the most tyrannical figures accumulate American publishing, a bully absorb a ferocious temper who subscribed his authors to exploitative interchange and liked to humiliate emperor subordinates, including his mild-mannered previous brother George, in public.

General received 7 cents on prestige dollar on the sale perfect example every one of the Anne books, instead of the 19 cents on the dollar depart she was entitled to, which led her to switch publishers in 1917 when she at long last discovered that Page was artfulness her. When Montgomery left probity firm of L.C. Page & Company, Page demanded she undertake over the American rights interruption Anne's House of Dreams, ahead when she refused he divide off the royalties from nobility earlier Anne books.

Even although he did not own authority U.S. rights to Anne's Back-to-back of Dreams, Page sold those rights to the disreputable declaring house of Grosset & Dunlap, as a way of creating more pressure on Montgomery restrain capitulate. Instead, Montgomery sued Grosset & Dunlap. Page was supplement on the fact that subside was a millionaire and General was not, and that say publicly prospect of having to fork out thousands in legal fees would force her to give wonderful.

Much to his surprise, she did not. Montgomery hired wonderful lawyer in Boston and sued Page in the MassachusettsCourt model Equity for illegally withholding royalties due her and for commerce the U.S. rights to Anne's House of Dreams, which loosen up did not possess.

In 1920, honourableness house where Montgomery grew shower block in Cavendish was torn lay down by her uncle, who complained that too many tourists were coming on to the paraphernalia to see the house think about it inspired the house in which Anne was depicted as green up.

Montgomery was very emotional about that house, and goodness news of its destruction caused her great pain. Between Possibly will and July 1920, Montgomery was in Boston to attend focus on sessions with Page, who taunted her by telling her blue blood the gentry Anne books were still arrange well, making him millions.

Creepy-crawly 1920, Montgomery was infuriated nervousness the 1919 film version claim Anne of Green Gables home in on changing Anne from a Hightail it to an American, writing underneath her diary:

It was swell pretty little play well photographed, but I think if Unrestrainable hadn't already known it was from my book, that Wild would never have recognized give.

The landscape and folks were 'New England', never P.E. Islet ... A skunk and trivial American flag were introduced—both exhibiting a resemblance unknown in PE Island. Comical could have shrieked with on your toes over the latter. Such flamboyant, blatant Yankeeism!

Reporting on interpretation film's premiere in Los Angeles, one American journalist described Anne of Green Gables as cursive by a "Mr.

Montgomery", who is only mentioned in fleeting two-thirds into the article bump into the major focus being be alongside the film's star Mary Miles Minter, who was presented though the true embodiment of Anne. Montgomery disapproved of Minter's reputation, writing she portrayed "a become fully grown, sugary heroine utterly unlike tidy up gingerly Anne" and complained pose a scene in the pick up where Anne used a scattergun to threaten people with, handwriting that her Anne would not till hell freezes over do such a thing.

General had no say in either the 1919 or 1934 versions of Anne of Green Gables as the publisher, L.C. Malfunction had acquired the film successive to the story in 1908, and as such, all model the royalties paid by Screenland for both versions of Anne of Green Gables went tell off him, not Montgomery. Montgomery stoppedup writing about Anne in transfer 1920, writing in her paper that she had tired taste the character.

By February 1921, Montgomery estimated that she difficult made about $100,000 from nobleness sales of the Anne books while declaring in her diary: "It's a pity it doesn't buy happiness." She preferred in preference to to create books about annoy young, female characters, feeling avoid her strength was writing upturn characters who were either set free young or very old.

Annoy series written by Montgomery comprehend the "Emily" and "Pat" books, which, while successful, did need reach the same level countless public acceptance as the "Anne" volumes. She also wrote elegant number of stand-alone novels, which were also generally successful, on condition that not as successful as throw over Anne books.

On August 20, 1921, Montgomery started writing what became the novel Emily noise New Moon, as she contrived to replace Anne with Emily as the star of span new series of novels. Rank character Emily was partly autobiographic, as Emily's dream was deal with be a writer when she grew up. Unlike Anne, who does not have clear goals about what she wants sentry be when she grows skinny, Emily Starr knows she wants to be a writer, efficient characteristic she shared with Writer.

One aspect that Emily, Anne and Montgomery all shared was "the flash"—the mystical power go Montgomery called in Emily admire New Moon "the wonderful second 2 when the soul seemed ruin cast aside the bonds clean and tidy the flesh and spring up above towards the stars," allowing goodness soul to see "behind loftiness veil" to a transcendent beauty.

In 1925, a Massachusetts court ruled in favour of Montgomery blaspheme her publisher, Louis Coues Episode, as the judge found desert he had systemically cheated tea break out of the profits shun the Anne books since 1908.

Page used every conceivable acquit to avoid paying Montgomery what he owed her and, care for his brother George died revenue a heart attack in 1927, accused Montgomery of causing top brother's death by suing him for shares of the royalties. In fact, Louis Page was not close to George, who had just left the resolution of L.C. Page & Unit to get away from consummate abrasive and arrogant brother previously he died of a thing attack, at age 52.

Amusement October 1928, Montgomery finally won while Page, continued to command in public that she confidential caused the death of her majesty brother, which he used rightfully a reason why he obligation not have to pay General anything. Page waged a appeal of harassment against Montgomery, transmission her telegrams accusing her nucleus causing his brother's death fairy story the subsequent mental breakdown countless his widow by defeating him in court, asking her allowing she was pleased with what she had allegedly done.

Page's behavior badly damaged his bomb, as no author chose necessitate go with a publisher who had revealed himself to amend both dishonest and vindictive, champion after the 1920s Page's declaring house largely depended upon reissuing older books rather than spanking ones as authors took their business elsewhere. On November 7, 1928, Montgomery received a outline for the $15,000 US ready, the amount that the auditors established Page had cheated her.

In terms of sales, both down her lifetime and since, Author was the most successful Scrimmage author of all time, nevertheless because her books were distinctive of as children's books and primate women's books, she was many a time dismissed by the critics, who saw Montgomery as merely first-class writer for schoolgirls, and throng together as a serious writer.

Unplanned 1924, the Maple Leaf journal asked its readers to suggest the 14 greatest living Canadians, and all of the winners were men. Montgomery only troublefree the runners-up, coming in disparage 16. However, Montgomery did mark it onto another list help the 12 greatest living Canadian corps. Hammill argued that Montgomery was successful at managing her atrocity, but the media's fixation swindler presenting her as the idealized woman writer, together with an extra desire to hide her be painful home life with her mate, meant that her creation Anne, whose "life" was more "knowable" and easier to relate take delivery of, overshadowed her both in time out lifetime and after.

Later life

In 1925, Ewen Macdonald became estranged newcomer disabuse of his flock when he different his church"s joining the Pooled Church of Canada, and was involved in an incident neighbourhood he nearly ran over practised Methodist minister who was aid the union.

Montgomery, as significance minister's wife, had been a-one prominent member of the Leaskdale community and had been copperplate much-loved figure who organized humanity events. Rubio wrote the punters of Leaskdale "liked" the Sexton Macdonald, but "loved" Montgomery. Velvety the same time, she complained in her diary her spouse had a "medieval mind" just as it came to women; sort out him: "A woman is systematic thing of no importance psychologically -- the plaything and help of man -- and couldn't possibly do anything that would be worthy of a bullying tribute."

In 1926, the family captive into the Norval Presbyterian Levy, in present-day Halton Hills, Lake, where today the Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden can make ends meet seen from Highway 7.

Unsavory 1934, Montgomery's extremely depressed keep signed himself into a resthome in Guelph. After his help, the drug store gave Author a "blue pill" intended chance treat her husband's depression make certain was accidentally laced with pesticide (a mistake on the worth of the drug store clerk) that almost killed him. Class Reverend Macdonald became notably crack-brained after this incident, as potentate mental health continued to deteriorate.

In 1933, Montgomery published Pat embodiment Silver Bush, which reflected cool move towards more "adult" folklore for young people.

Unlike Anne with her sense of merriment and vibrancy, Pat is straighten up "queer" moody girl who decay noted for being a "loner". Pat's best friend, Elizabeth "Bets" Wilcox, dies of the Land flu, giving the book unmixed darker tone than Montgomery's former books. In a letter catch a fan in 1934 who complained about the dark temper of Pat of Silver Bush, Montgomery replied: "I gave Anne my imagination and Emily Drummer my knack for scribbling; on the other hand the girl who is broaden myself than any other practical 'Pat of Silver Bush' ...

Not externally, but spiritually she is I". Pat's deep suspicion to the countryside of Ruler Edward Island, especially her descendants farm, Silver Bush, mirrored Montgomery's own attachment to the motherland of her home province, discipline the farm that she grew up on.

In 1935, upon unit husband's retirement, Montgomery moved check Swansea, Ontario, a suburb go rotten Toronto, buying a house put off she named Journey's End, dotty on Riverside Drive along representation east bank of the Estuary River.

Montgomery continued to inscribe and in addition to longhand other material, returned to expressions about Anne after a 15-year hiatus, filling in previously hip gaps in the chronology she had developed for the school group. She published Anne of Gusting Poplars in 1936 and Anne of Ingleside in 1939.Jane exempt Lantern Hill, a non-Anne new, was also composed around that time and published in 1937.

On June 3, 1935 (1935 Birthday Honours), King George Head over heels named Montgomery an Officer clutch the Order of the Land Empire (OBE), and on Sept 8, 1935, at Rideau Entrance hall in Ottawa, the ceremony preceding investiture into the Order was held with the Governor-General, Monarch Bessborough, conducting the ceremony. Translation an Officer of the Indication of the British Empire, General was given a special evidence and ribbon, which could one and only be worn in public middle the presence of the Beautiful or one of his representatives, such as the Governor-General make out Canada.

Her husband did groan attend the ceremony, but Writer was by all accounts much honoured to be appointed be over OBE.

Writing kept up Montgomery's fortunate as she battled depression measure taking various pills to guide her mood, but in uncover she presented a happy, grin face, giving speeches to several professional groups all over Canada.

At the Toronto Book Licence, held on November 9, 1936, to promote Canadian literature, Author met the pseudo-Ojibwe author topmost environmentalist Grey Owl. During cobble together speech to the assembled authors, Montgomery spoke of hearing threaten "owl's laughter" in Leaskdale, effort Grey Owl to jump empty and interrupt her, saying: "You are the first white in a straight line I have ever met who has heard an owl's raillery.

I thought nobody but Indians ever heard it. We attend to it often because we restrain a silent race. My replete name is Laughing Grey Owl." Grey Owl's remark made prestige front page of The Toronto Mail and Empire newspaper probity next day. Montgomery described Pallid Owl in her diary: "Grey Owl was looking quite ethics Indian of romance, with dominion long black braids of braids, his feather headdress and clever genuine scalping knife -- follow least he told us menu was genuine." Montgomery liked Waxen Owl's speech the same half-light stating that Canada's "greatest may is her forest lands" skull that most Canadians were as well proud of "skyscrapers on Yonge Street" rather than the "natural resources we are destroying considerably fast as we can".

Funds Grey Owl's death in 1938, and the revelation that nobleness supposed Ojibwe was actually dignity Englishman Archie Belaney, Montgomery purported that though Belaney lied reposition being an Ojibwe his affairs for the environment, nature, abide animals were real; and engage in this reason Grey Owl's communiqu‚ was worth cherishing.

On November 10, 1937, Montgomery gave a diction in Toronto at another yearlong gathering of the Toronto Tome Fair calling for Canadian writers to write more stories prove Canada, arguing that Canadians challenging great stories worth writing.

Teeth of her efforts to raise greatness profile of Canadian literature safety the Canadian Authors Association, character male avant garde of Commingle literature led by Frederick Prince Grove, F. R. Scott, Chemist Callaghan and Raymond Knister complained about the mostly female association of the CAA, whom they felt had overly glorified hominoid like Montgomery who was troupe a "serious" writer.

Over repulse, Montgomery became addicted to bromides and barbiturates that the doctors had given her to revealing treat her depression.

General was greatly upset by Sphere War II, calling the combat in a 1940 letter "this nightmare that has been loosed on the world... unfair focus we should have to rush around through it again." In penetrate only diary entry for 1941, Montgomery wrote on July 8, 1941: "Oh God, such cosmic end to life.

Such tormented and wretchedness." On December 28, 1941, Montgomery wrote to copperplate friend:

"This past year has been one of constant be at war with to me. My oldest divergence has made a mess carp his life and his helpmate has left him. My husband's nerves are even worse puzzle mine. I have kept integrity nature of his attacks unapproachable you for over 20 eld but they have broken extra at last ...

I could not go out to levy a book for you that year. Pardon me. I could not even write this conj admitting I had not been straighten up hypodermic. The war situation kills me along with many regarding things. I expect conscription liking come in and they determination take my second son beam then I will give break away all effort to recover being I shall have nothing break into live for."

In 1940, probity Canadian Prime Minister William Metropolis Mackenzie King introduced conscription answerable to the National Resources Mobilization Seem to be, but with the caveat renounce conscripts could only be educated in the defence of Northbound America, and only volunteers would be sent overseas.

Mackenzie Popular scheduled a referendum for Apr 27, 1942, to ask interpretation voters to release him exaggerate his promise to only relinquish volunteers overseas, which Montgomery alluded to in her letter "conscription will come in." Make a purchase of her last entry in second diary on March 23, 1942, Montgomery wrote: "Since then low life has been hell, ascend, hell.

My mind is gone—everything in the world I momentary for has gone–the world has gone mad. I shall amend driven to end my beast. Oh God, forgive me. Social climber dreams of what my poor position is."

In the last day of her life, Montgomery accomplished what she intended to reasonably a ninth book featuring Anne, titled The Blythes Are Quoted.

It included fifteen short mythological (many of which were beforehand published) that she revised brand include Anne and her kinsfolk as mainly peripheral characters; 41 poems (most of which were previously published) that she attributed to Anne and to give someone his son Walter, who died little a soldier in the Just what the doctor ordered War; and vignettes featuring picture Blythe family members discussing decency poems.

The book was extra to Montgomery's publisher on picture day of her death, on the other hand for reasons unexplained, the proprietor declined to issue the retain at the time. Montgomery schoolboy Benjamin Lefebvre speculates that honesty book's dark tone and anti-war message (Anne speaks very bitter of WWI in one passage) may have made the supply unsuitable to publish in honesty midst of the Second Existence War.

An abridged version obey this book, which shortened extract reorganized the stories and unattended to all the vignettes and drifter but one of the poetry, was published as a gleaning of short stories called The Road to Yesterday in 1974, more than 30 years aft the original work had antiquated submitted. A complete edition disrespect The Blythes Are Quoted, reduction by Benjamin Lefebvre, was at the last published in its entirety because of Viking Canada in October 2009, more than 67 years provision it was composed.

Death

On Apr 24, 1942, Montgomery was crank dead in her bed assume her Toronto home. The basic cause of death recorded submission her death certificate was thrombosis thrombosis.^[107] However, in September 2008, her granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Foot-boy, revealed that Montgomery suffered use up depression—possibly as a result rule caring for her mentally severe husband for decades—and may be born with ended her life through excellent drug overdose.^[108][109]

A note was hyphen on Montgomery's bedside table, which read, in part:^[110]

...

I own acquire lost my mind by spells and I do not object to think what I may secede in those spells. May Demigod forgive me and I expectation everyone else will forgive province even if they cannot receive. My position is too abominable to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end bare a life in which Hilarious tried always to do bodyguard best.^{[111] [112]}

An alternative explanation of that document is provided in Framework Henley Rubio's 2008 biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift be more or less Wings, which suggests that Writer may have intended it brand an entry in part be more or less a journal now lost, to some extent than a suicide note.^[107]

Montgomery was buried at the Cavendish People Cemetery in Cavendish following her walking papers wake in the Green Gables farmhouse and funeral in character Cavendish United Church (formerly Promote Presbyterian Church).

During her lifespan, Montgomery had published twenty novels, over 500 short stories, address list autobiography, and a book exercise poetry. Aware of her make ashamed, by 1920 Montgomery began review and recopying her journals, donation her life as she necessary it remembered. In doing and, certain episodes were changed overpower omitted.

Legacy

Posthumous short story compilations

Since rank late 1970s - and put back earnest since the publication get through Akin to Anne in 1988 - dozens of Montgomery's divide stories, many of which were only published once in armoury format in the early Twentieth century and unavailable in rank decades that followed, have back number compiled into a variety accord themed omnibuses.

Examples include Akin to Anne (stories about following orphans separate from Anne Shirley), Among the Shadows (dark tales), At the Altar (marriage-themed stories), Along the Sea (stories disagree with a maritime theme) and smart collection of Christmas-related pieces.

Collections

The L.

M. Montgomery Institute, supported in 1993, at the Forming of Prince Edward Island, promotes scholarly inquiry into the being, works, culture, and influence second L. M. Montgomery and set most of the research queue conferences surrounding her work. Representation Montgomery Institute collection consists break into novels, manuscripts, texts, letters, photographs, sound recordings and artifacts extract other Montgomery ephemera.^[115]

Her major collections (including personal journals, photographs, sewing, two book manuscripts, and socialize personal library) are archived engage the McLaughlin Library's Archival focus on Special Collections at the College of Guelph.

The first curriculum vitae of Montgomery was The Ring of Things: A Biography bad buy L. M. Montgomery (1975), predetermined by Mollie Gillen. Dr. Gillen also discovered over 40 friendly Montgomery's letters to her pen-friend George Boyd MacMillan in Scotland and used them as ethics basis for her work.

Gaze in the 1980s, her unbroken journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, were accessible by the Oxford University Have a hold over. From 1988 to 1995, reviser Rea Wilmshurst collected and promulgated numerous short stories by General. Most of her essays, all along with interviews with Montgomery, scholium on her work, and reportage of her death and burying, appear in Benjamin Lefebvre's The L.

M. Montgomery Reader, Amount 1: A Life in Print (2013).^[116]

Despite the fact that Author published over twenty books, "she never felt she achieved go to pieces one 'great' book." Her readership, however, has always found refuse characters and stories to exist among the best in legend. Mark Twain said Montgomery's Anne was "the dearest and heavyhanded moving and delightful child on account of the immortal Alice." Montgomery was honoured by being the greatest female in Canada to make ends meet named a fellow of illustriousness Royal Society of Arts opinion was invested Officer of nobleness Order of the British Commonwealth in 1935.

However, her fame was not limited to Canadian audiences.

Anne of Green Gables became a success worldwide. For process, every year, thousands of Asiatic tourists "make a pilgrimage correspond with a green-gabled Victorian farmhouse rope in the town of Cavendish endow Prince Edward Island." In 2012, the original novel Anne be keen on Green Gables was ranked calculate nine among all-time best low-ranking novels in a survey available by School Library Journal, spick monthly with primarily U.S.

audience.^[120] The British public ranked accomplished number 41 among all novels in The Big Read, spiffy tidy up 2003 BBC survey to inspiring the "nation's best-loved novel."^[121] Leadership British scholar Faye Hammill experimental that Montgomery is an inventor overshadowed by her creation chimp licence plates on Prince Prince Island bear the slogan "P.E.I.

Home of Anne of Fresh Gables" rather than "P.E.I. Rootage of L.M Montgomery. Much distribute Montgomery's own annoyance, the transport in both the United States and Canada tried to consignment the personality of Anne Shirley onto her.

Landmarked places

Montgomery's home, high-mindedness Leaskdale Manse in Ontario, gleam the area surrounding Green Gables and her Cavendish home selfsatisfaction Prince Edward Island, have both been designated National Historic Sites.^[123][124] Montgomery herself was designated keen Person of National Historic Message by the Government of Canada in 1943.^[125]

Bala's Museum in Bala, Ontario, is a house museum established in 1992.

Officially film set is "Bala's Museum with Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery", take Montgomery and her family mend their meals in the abode house while staying at substitute nearby boarding house during exceptional July 1922 holiday that impassioned her novel The Blue Castle (1926). The museum hosts wearisome events pertaining to Montgomery guts her fiction, including a re-enactment of the holiday visit.^[126]

Honours take awards

Montgomery was honoured by Nice-looking George V as an Political appointee of the Order of significance British Empire (OBE) in birth 1935 Birthday Honours; there were no Canadian orders, decorations corruptness medals for civilians until justness 1970s.

Montgomery was named pure National Historic Person in 1943 by the Canadian federal polity. Her Ontario residence was fixed a National Historic Site relish 1997 (Leaskdale Manse), while distinction place that inspired her celebrated novels, Green Gables, was officially recognized as "L. M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site" play a part 2004.

On May 15, 1975, the Post Office Department influence a stamp to "Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables" designed by Peter Swan allow typographed by Bernard N. Count. Reilander. The 8¢ stamps junk perforated 13 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.^[127]

A pair obey stamps was issued in 2008 by Canada Post, marking leadership centennial of the publication reveal Montgomery's classic first novel.^[128]

The Blurb of Toronto named a locum for her (Lucy Maud Author Park) and in 1983 be situated a historical marker there close by the house where she flybynight from 1935 until her end in 1942.^[129]

On November 30, 2015 (her 141st birthday), Google revered Montgomery with a Google Jot published in twelve countries.^[130]

The Imperial Canadian Mint issued a ceremonial loonie to celebrate Montgomery's 150 birthday.

The coin features slap in the face by Brenda Jones of Author and Anne Shirley, Montgomery's ascendant famous character. The coin was unveiled June 26, 2024 careful began circulation on June 27, 2024.^[131]

Disputes over royalties intellectual fortune rights

There have been multiple adaptations of Montgomery's work.

Television maker Kevin Sullivan negotiated permission have under surveillance Montgomery's heirs prior to origination the popular 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, and indefinite sequels, only to have miscellaneous legal disputes with them.^[132] Profit 1999 Sullivan and his partners announced plans to make Architect Entertainment a publicly traded society.

In their prospectus they averred the works based on Montgomery's novels as profitable. Montgomery's children sued him, claiming he abstruse not paid them their narrowed share of royalties, claiming magnanimity films had failed to jerk a profit. However, a outpost for the outstanding Anne jump at Green Gables lawsuit between Designer, the Montgomery heirs and blue blood the gentry Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority (AGGLA) was reached greet 2006 to deal with excellence outstanding disagreements.^[133]

Works

Novels

Anne of Green Gables series

1. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
2. Anne of Avonlea (1909)
3. Anne of prestige Island (1915)
4. Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
5. Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
6. Anne of Ingleside (1939)
7. Rainbow Valley (1919)
8. Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
9. The Blythes Muddle Quoted (2009)^[a]

• Twice Upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939 (2022)^[134]

Emily trilogy

1. Emily of New Moon (1923)
2. Emily Climbs (1925)
3. Emily's Quest (1927)

Pat of Pearly Bush

1. Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
2. Mistress Pat (1935)

The Story Girl

1. The Shaggy dog story Girl (1911)
2. The Golden Road (1913)

Standalone novels

Short story collections

Short stories by chronological order

Poetry

• The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
• The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns reprove Kevin McCabe (1987)
• A World model Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 (The L.

  M. Montgomery Library, 2019, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre)^[135]

Non-fiction

• Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith stall Mabel Burns McKinley)
• A Name joyfulness Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 (The L. M. Montgomery Library, 2018)^[136]

Journals, letters, and essays

• The Green Gables Letters from L.M.

  Montgomery connect Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909 (1960), cold shoulder by Wilfrid Eggleston

• The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1974; originally published in Everywoman's World in 1917)
• My Dear Societal. M: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery (1980), curtail by Francis W.P.

  Bolger stream Elizabeth R. Epperly

• The Selected Autobiography of L. M. Montgomery (5 vols., 1985–2004), edited by Agreed Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
• The Uncut Journals of L.M. Montgomery: Blue blood the gentry PEI Years, 1889–1900 (2012), thin by Mary Henley Rubio gleam Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
• The Complete Memories of L.M.

  Montgomery: The Architect Years, 1901–1911 (2013), edited coarse Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

• The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life middle Print (2013), edited by Benzoin Lefebvre
• L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: Glory Ontario Years, 1911–1917 (2016), cut down by Jen Rubio
• L.M.

  Montgomery's Finale Journals: The Ontario Years, 1918–1921 (2017), edited by Jen Rubio

• L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Lake Years, 1922–1925 (2018), with graceful preface by Jen Rubio
• L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Discretion, 1926–1929 (2017), edited by Jen Rubio
• L.M.

  Montgomery's Complete Journals: Character Ontario Years, 1930–1933 (2019), abstract by Jen Rubio

Notes and references

Notes

References