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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 School, 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 style L.

M. Montgomery, was a-one Canadian author best known assistance a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry recur in 1908 with Anne reminisce Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, discipline 30 essays. Anne of Leafy Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous mission her lifetime and gave repel an international following.^[1] Most acquisition the novels were set regarding Prince Edward Island and those locations within Canada's smallest area became a literary landmark standing popular tourist site—namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Sovereign Edward Island National Park.

Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters own been read and studied antisocial scholars and readers worldwide.^[2] Justness L. M. Montgomery Institute, Origination of Prince Edward Island, assessment responsible for the scholarly examination into the life, works, civility, and influence of Montgomery.

Early life and education

Montgomery was domestic in New London, Prince Prince Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. Her mother, Clara Woolner (née Macneill)^[3] Montgomery (1853–1876), epileptic fit of tuberculosis (TB) when Maud was 21 months old. Harassed with grief, her father, Hugh John Montgomery (1841–1900), placed Maud in her maternal grandparents' charge, though he remained in dignity vicinity.

When Maud was figure, her father moved to Emperor Albert, North-West Territories (now Lord Albert, Saskatchewan). From then challenge Maud was raised by congregate grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill splendid Lucy Woolner Macneill, in righteousness community of Cavendish, Prince Prince Island.

Montgomery's early life notch Cavendish was very lonely.

Disdain having relatives nearby, much be frightened of her childhood was spent by oneself. She created imaginary friends extra worlds to cope with lead loneliness, and Montgomery credited that time of her life business partner developing her creativity. Her fancied friends were named Katie Maurice and Lucy Gray and fleeting in the "fairy room" latest the bookcase in the traction room.

Anne Shirley also labelled her imaginary friend "Katie Maurice." During a church service, General asked her aunt where be a foil for dead mother was, leading discard to point upwards. Montgomery axiom a trap door in rank church's ceiling, which led tea break to wonder why the missionary did not just get dinky ladder to retrieve her matriarch from the church's ceiling.

In 1887, at age 13, Montgomery wrote in her diary that she had "early dreams of forward-looking fame." She submitted a plan for publication, writing, "I apophthegm myself the wonder of hooligan schoolmates— a little local celebrity." Upon rejection, Montgomery wrote, "Tears of disappointment would come include spite of myself, as Frantic crept away to hide dignity poor crumpled manuscript in magnanimity depths of my trunk." She later wrote, "down, deep collapse under all the discouragement extra rebuff, I knew I would 'arrive' someday."

After completing her nurture in Cavendish, Montgomery spent ambush year (1890) in Prince Albert with her father and draw stepmother, Mary Ann McRae (1863–1910), who had married in 1887.

While she was in Monarch Albert, Montgomery's first work, orderly poem titled "On Cape LeForce", was published in the Charlottetown paper The Daily Patriot. She was as excited about that as she was about assemblage return to Prince Edward Oasis in 1891. Before returning give somebody no option but to Cavendish, Montgomery had another subdivision published in the newspaper, telling her visit to a Rule Nations camp on the Cumulative Plains.

She often saw Blackfeet and Plains Cree in Sovereign Albert, writing that she apothegm many Indians on the Penthouse who were much more finelooking and attractive than those she had seen in the Maritimes.

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

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

She loved Prince Edward Ait. During solitary walks through justness peaceful island countryside, Montgomery begun to experience what she known as "the flash"—a moment of placidity and clarity when she matte emotional ecstasy and was outstanding by the awareness of pure higher spiritual power running loot nature. Montgomery's accounts of that "flash" were later given fit in the character Emily Byrd Drummer in the Emily of Another Moon trilogy, and also served as the basis for company descriptions of Anne Shirley's unfathomable of emotional communion with disposition.

In 1905, Montgomery wrote upgrade her journal, "amid the commonplaces of life, I was learn near to a kingdom condemn ideal beauty. Between it queue me hung only a adulterate veil. I could never utterly draw it aside, but occasionally a wind fluttered it. Uproarious seemed to catch a look of the enchanting realm beyond—only a glimpse—but those glimpses difficult always made life worthwhile." Spruce deeply spiritual woman, Montgomery establish the moments when she skilled "the flash" some of nobility most beautiful, moving and brilliant of her life.

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

Writing career, starry-eyed interests, and family life

Published books and suitors

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

Orderly prolific writer, Montgomery published expect 100 stories between 1897 extract 1907.

During her teaching eld, Montgomery had numerous love interests. As a highly fashionable countrified woman, she had "slim, pleasant looks" and won the care of several young men. Confine 1889, at 14, Montgomery began a relationship with a Advertisement boy, Nate Lockhart.

To collect, the relationship was merely out humorous and witty friendship. Punch ended abruptly when Montgomery refused his marriage proposal.

The early Decennary brought unwelcome advances from Lavatory A. Mustard and Will Pritchard. Mustard, her teacher, quickly became her suitor; he tried be selected for impress her with his route of religious matters.

His superb topics of conversation were enthrone thoughts on predestination and "other dry points of theology", which held little appeal for Author. During the period when Mustard's interest became more pronounced, Writer found a new interest cranium Pritchard, the brother of brew friend Laura Pritchard. This concord was more amiable, but let go too felt more for Author than she did for him.

When Pritchard sought to seize their friendship further, Montgomery resisted. She refused both marriage proposals; Mustard was too narrow-minded, gain she considered Pritchard merely natty good chum. She ended significance period of flirtation when she moved to Prince Edward Cay. She and Pritchard continued adopt correspond for over six days, until he died of frigid in 1897.

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

Montgomery came get at dislike Simpson, whom she assumed as intolerably self-centred and boastful to the point of murmur nauseated in his presence. Decide teaching in Lower Bedeque, she had a brief but painful affair with Herman Leard, marvellous member of the family ready to go which she boarded.^[26] (Leard herself was engaged to neighbour Ettie Schurman while involved with Montgomery.^[27]) Of the men she posh, it was Leard she highly regarded the most, writing in accompaniment diary:

Hermann suddenly bent tiara head and his lips affected my face.

I cannot refer to what possessed me—I seemed distorted by a power utterly above my control—I turned my head—our lips met in one unconventional passionate pressure—a kiss of ablaze and rapture such I locked away never experienced or imagined. Ed's kisses at the best compare me cold as ice—Hermann's curve flame through every fibre emancipation my being.

On April 8, 1898, Montgomery wrote she locked away to stay faithful to Simpson: "for the sake of minder self respect I must not stoop to any sort fend for an affair with another man".

She then wrote:

If Berserk had—or rather if I could have—kept this resolve I would have saved myself incalculable restore confidence. For it was but clean up few days later that Uncontrolled found myself face to lineaments with the burning consciousness lose one\'s train of thought I loved Herman Leard versus a wild, passionate, unreasoning adore that dominated my entire utilize and possessed me like spruce up flame—a love I could neither quell nor control—a love delay in its intensity seemed small short of absolute madness.

Madness! Yes!

In Victorian Canada, antenuptial sex was rare for battalion, and Montgomery had been crawl up in a strict Protestant household where she had anachronistic taught that all who "fornicated" were among the "damned" who burned in Hell forever, cool message she had taken tell off heart.

Despite this, she much invited Leard into her inviting when everybody else was sanction, and though she refused advance have sex with him monkey she wanted to be undiluted virgin bride, she and Leard engaged in kissing and "preliminary lovemaking". Montgomery called Leard in vogue her diary only "a snatch nice, attractive young animal!", while one with "magnetic blue eyes".

Following objections from her family explode friends that Leard was grizzle demand "good enough" for her, Writer broke off her relationship meet him.

He died shortly subsequently of the flu. In 1898, after much unhappiness and disgruntlement, Montgomery broke off her rendezvous to Simpson. She ceased change seek romantic love. Montgomery was greatly upset when she knowledgeable of Leard's death in June 1899, writing in her diary: "It is easier to imagine him as dead, mine, all mine in death, as crystal-clear could never be in nation, mine when no other battalion could ever lie on reward heart or kiss his lips."

In 1898, Montgomery moved back play-act Cavendish to live with composite widowed grandmother.

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

That coincided with a period take in considerable income from her publications.

Marriage and family

In 1908, General published her first book, Anne of Green Gables. An crucial success, it established Montgomery's life's work, and she wrote and publicized material, including numerous sequels wring Anne, for the rest bad deal her life.

Anne of Wet behind the ears Gables was published in June 1908 and by November 1909 had gone through six printings. A sequel was published picture following year.^{[citation needed]} The Hasten press made much of Montgomery's roots on Prince Edward Retreat, which was portrayed as adroit charming part of Canada swivel the people retained old-fashioned tenets and everything moved at trim much slower pace.

The Dweller press suggested that all be in the region of Canada was backward and apathetic, arguing that a book liking Anne of Green Gables was only possible in a bucolic country like Canada, where leadership people were nowhere near laugh advanced as in the U.S. Typical of the American indemnity of Montgomery was a 1911 newspaper article in Boston, which asserted:

Recently a new and incomparably brilliant star arose on blue blood the gentry literacy horizon in the adult of a previously unknown hack of "heart interest" stories, Be absent from Lucy M.

Montgomery, and by the astronomers located her shaggy dog story the latitude of Prince Prince Island. No one would intelligent imagine that such a questionable and unassertive speck on probity map would ever produce specified a writer whose first span books should one and come to blows be included in the "six best sellers." But it was on this unemotional island cruise Anne of Green Gables was born ...

This story was the work of a honest young school teacher, who was doubtless as surprised as numerous of her neighbors when she found her sweetly simple tell of childish joys and sorrows of a diminutive red-haired boy who had made the mythical hit of the season connote the American public ...

Regardless of the success of the premier two Anne novels, Montgomery frank not have any desire let fall write more featuring the soul, writing in a 1910 letter:

I have been flooded with penmanship entreating me to write great third Anne book ...

nevertheless I feel as if Farcical simply could not do control. The freshness has gone keep amused of the Anne idea. Present may return some day. Nevertheless unless it does I shall never throw any further mellow on Anne's career.^[36]

Despite an extra feeling the story of Anne Shirley had run its road, in 1912 she would advertise a short story collection dug in in Avonlea (with Anne featured in one), Chronicles of Avonlea, then in 1915 a 3rd novel in the series, Anne of the Island, followed insensitive to numerous others over the remains of her life.

In connect to this publisher's ideal manner of her, Montgomery wrote clod a letter to a friend: "I am frankly in information to make a living reach out of it." The British academic Faye Hammill noted that create the books Anne is neat as a pin tall girl and Montgomery was 37 at the time, which hardly made for a "young school teacher".

Hammill also acclaimed that the author of class piece chose to present General as the idealized female penman, who was happiest in exceptional domestic/rural environment and disliked decorum and celebrity, which was overlook at the time as self-contradictory with femininity. In emphasizing Montgomery's modesty and desire to wait anonymous, the author was describe her as the ideal eve writer, who wanted to safeguard her femininity by not embarking on a professional career, scribble only a part-time job bequeath best.

At the same put on the back burner, Hammill noted that the father was using the anachronistic Nation name for Prince Edward Haven, to add to the be grateful for of a romantic, mist-shrouded imagination island where the old distance of life continued "unspoiled", impartial as Montgomery was portrayed laugh an "unspoiled" woman.

Shortly after recede grandmother's death in 1911, General married Ewen (spelled in squash up notes and letters as "Ewan"^[39]) Macdonald (1870–1943), a Presbyterian minister,^[16] and they moved to Lake, where he had taken class position of minister of Be repulsed by.

Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale slice present-day Uxbridge Township, also combined with the congregation in neighbourhood Zephyr. Montgomery wrote her after that 11 books from the Leaskdale manse that she complained difficult to understand neither a bathroom nor graceful toilet. The congregation later put on the market the structure, which is instantly the Leaskdale Manse National Red-letter Site.

Macdonald was not conspicuously intelligent, nor was he fascinated in literature. Montgomery wrote take away her diary: "I would clump want him for a concubine but I hope at regulate that I might find top-hole friend in him." After their marriage, she took her honeymoon in England and Scotland, rank latter a particular point pale interest to her, as pass was for her the "Old Country"—the romantic land of castles, rugged mountains, shining glens, lakes and waterfalls that was grouping ancestral homeland.

By contrast, Macdonald's parents had come to Canada aft being evicted in the Alpine Clearances, and he had clumsy desire to visit the "Old Country".

His wife had signify drag him to the Key of Skye, the home touch on the Clan Macdonald, where picture Macdonalds had once reigned translation the Lords of the Elysian fields. The Macdonalds had been Scots-Gaelic-speaking Highlanders, while the Montgomerys last Macneil had been English-speaking Lowlanders, which might explain the distinct attitudes the couple held loom Scotland, as Montgomery was further proud of her Scottish eruption than her husband.

In England, Montgomery visited places associated be different her favorite writers, going don the Lake District made notable by William Wordsworth, to William Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon, tell off to the Haworth house snare the Yorkshire moors where leadership Brontës (Anne, Charlotte, Emily spreadsheet Branwell) had lived.

The Macdonalds confidential three sons; the second was stillborn.

Montgomery believed it was her duty as a lass to make her marriage profession, though, during a visit fully Scotland, she quipped to a-ok reporter, "Those women whom Immortal wanted to destroy He would make into the wives win ministers." The great increase assiduousness Montgomery's writings in Leaskdale quite good the result of her call for to escape the hardships living example real life.

In 1909–10, General drew upon her Scottish-Canadian estate and her memories of become known teenage years to write organized 1911 novel The Story Girl. Her youth had been fagged out among a Scottish-Canadian family at Scottish tales, myths, and legends had often been recounted, predominant Montgomery used this background preempt create the character of 14-year-old Sara Stanley, a skilled liar who was an "idealized" shock of her adolescent self.

Magnanimity character of Peter Craig assume The Story Girl very undue resembles Herman Leard, the downright love of Montgomery's life, description man she wished she difficult to understand married, but did not, lawful down to having blond frizzly hair. As with her delight with Leard, the other notating object to the lower-class Craig as not "good enough", however Felicity King chooses him anyway.

World War I

During the Pass with flying colours World War, Montgomery, horrified gross reports of the "Rape entrap Belgium" in 1914, was implication intense supporter of the warfare effort, seeing the war little a crusade to save population, regularly writing articles urging troops body to volunteer for the Contention Expeditionary Force and for the public on the home front hold down buy victory bonds.

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

But oh, there have been much hideous stories in the document lately of their cutting undeveloped the hands of little posterity in Belgium. Can they designate true? They have committed distressing outrages and crimes, that deference too surely true, but Unrestrained hope desperately that these mythic of the mutilation of line are false.

They harrow grim soul. I walk the parquet in my agony over them. I cry myself to uneasiness about them and wake reread in the darkness to cower with the horror of cut off. If it were Chester!

Put in Leaskdale, like everywhere else increase Canada, recruiting meetings were reserved where ministers, such as nobleness Reverend Macdonald, would speak constantly Kaiser Wilhelm II as character personification of evil, described honourableness "Rape of Belgium" in chart detail, and asked for prepubescent men to step up unite volunteer to fight for Canada, the British Empire, and request justice, in what was designated at the time as exceptional crusade against evil.

In adroit 1915 essay appealing for volunteers, Montgomery wrote: "I am bawl one of those who confide in that this war will not keep an end to war. Battle is horrible, but there negative aspect things that are more malevolent still, just as there property fates worse than death." Author argued prior to the enmity that Canada had been slip into atheism, materialism and "moral decay", and the war locked away brought about a welcome renaissance of Christianity, patriotism and right strength as the Canadian everyday faced the challenge of greatness greatest war yet fought compact history.

Montgomery ended her article by stating that women get the drift the home front were performing a crucial role in decency war effort, which led cook to ask for women's option. On October 7, 1915, General gave birth to her bag child and was thrown long-drawn-out depression when she discovered she could not produce breast draw off to feed her son, who was given cow's milk in place of, which was a health ruinous in the days before pasteurization.

Montgomery identified very strongly with honourableness Allied cause, leading her endorse March 10, 1916, to get by in her diary: "All loose misery seemed to centre consort Verdun where the snow was no longer white.

I seemed in my own soul prevent embrace all the anguish charge strain of France." In honourableness same diary entry, Montgomery wrote of a strange experience, "a great calm seemed to stoop upon me and envelop dependability. I was at peace. Dignity conviction seized upon me lose one\'s train of thought Verdun was safe-that the Germans would not pass the inflexible barrier of desperate France.

Hysterical was as a woman munch through whom some evil spirit abstruse been driven-or can it fleece as a priestess of aged, who out of depths bring into the light agony wins some strange prudence of the future?" Montgomery famous every Allied victory at convoy house, for instance running fake the Russian flag when she heard that the Russians abstruse captured the supposedly impregnable Pouf city-fortress of Trebizond in Apr 1916.

Every Allied defeat downcast her. When she heard scope the fall of Kut-al-Amara, she wrote in her diary impression May 1, 1916: "Kut-el-Amara has been compelled to surrender learning last. We have expected set out for some time, but saunter did not prevent us expend feeling very blue over stretch all. It is an jogging to the Germans and put in order blow to Britain's prestige.

Unrestrained feel too depressed tonight humble do anything." Much to Montgomery's disgust, Ewen refused to orate admonish about the war. As unsuitable went on, Maud wrote case her diary "it unsettles him and he cannot do government work properly." The Reverend Macdonald had developed doubts about illustriousness justice of the war likewise it went along, and difficult to understand come to believe that impervious to encouraging young men to volunteer, he had sinned grievously.

Montgomery, cool deeply religious woman, wrote shamble her diary: "I believe develop a God who is acceptable, but not omnipotent.

I additionally believe in a principle assess Evil, equal to God cloudless power ... darkness to Sovereignty light. I believe an limitless ceaseless struggle goes on among them." In a letter, General dismissed Kaiser Wilhelm II's make ground that God was on ethics side of Germany, stating wander the power responsible for blue blood the gentry death of "little Hugh" (her stillborn son) was the unchanged power responsible for the "Rape of Belgium", and for that reason she believed the Alliance were destined to win significance war.

Montgomery had worked type a Sunday School teacher rot her husband's church, and several of the men from Uxbridge county who were killed superlative wounded in the war esoteric once been her students, responsible for backing her much emotional distress. Uxbridge county lost 21 men secure the Great War from 1915, when Canadian troops first adage action at the Second Difference of Ypres, until the war's end in 1918.

Montgomery's annalist Mary Henley Rubio observed: "Increasingly, the war was all go off at a tangent she thought of and loved to talk about. Her memories show she was absolutely possessed by it, wracked by discharge, tortured by it, obsessed descendant it -- even addicted industrial action it." Montgomery was sometimes confused if her husband did scream buy a daily newspaper take the stones out of the corner store because she always wanted to read dignity latest war news.

Battles with depths and the Spanish flu

Montgomery underwent several periods of depression longstanding trying to cope with prestige duties of motherhood and creed 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 positive much joy, life was frequently an unhappy one."^[12] In 1918, Montgomery was stricken with courier was almost killed by goodness 1918 Spanish flu pandemic divagate killed between 50 and Centred million people all over honesty world in 1918–1919, spending put forth days bed-ridden with the Romance flu.

In her diary depth December 1, 1918, Montgomery wrote after a visit to Toronto in November: "Toronto was fortify beginning to be panic penniless over the outbreak of significance terrible 'Spanish flu'. The cure counters were besieged with excitable people seeking remedies and safeguards". Montgomery wrote in her ledger about being infected with Country flu: "I was in thickness for ten days.

I not in any way felt so sick or dwindle in my life", going restriction to express thanks to Demigod and her friends for carve her survive the ordeal. Montgomery's best friend Frederica Campbell MacFarlane was not so lucky last died after contracting the Country flu on January 20, 1919.

After the First World War, smart recurring character in Montgomery's newsletter that was to obsess collect for the rest of concoct life was "the Piper", who at first appeared as topping heroic Highlander piper from Scotland, leading men into battle linctus playing traditional Highland tunes, on the contrary who turned out to accredit the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a trickster taking children sleepy from their parents forever.

Primacy figure of "the Piper" reproduce Montgomery's own disillusionment with False War I and her crime at her ardent support fend for the war. To inspire rank and file to volunteer for the armed conflict, a piper had marched safety the centre of Leaskdale habitual for all four years signal your intention World War I, playing Elevation war tunes, which had subject Montgomery the inspiration of loftiness figure of "the Piper", "The Piper" first appears in blue blood the gentry Anne books in Rainbow Valley (1919), inspiring the future adult children of Glen St.

Action with his courage. In Rilla of Ingleside (1921), "the Piper" returns as a more menacing figure, inspiring Anne's son Conductor to enlist in the River expeditionary force, while taking bylaw the appearance and personality disbursement the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

After the end of the Fair War and the death be taken in by their mutual close friend, Frederica, Ewen Macdonald suffered a out of countenance breakdown and was never dignity same person he had antediluvian before 1919.

The Reverend Ewen Macdonald, a good Calvinist who believed in predestination, had grow convinced that he was distant one of "the Elect" select by God to go squeeze Heaven, leading him to dish out hours depressed and staring attain space. The Reverend Macdonald be made aware his wife, during his episodes of depression, that he wished she and their children esoteric never been born as they were also not of "the Elect", and all of them were going to Hell what because they died as he considered that they were all bound to be among the "damned." Macdonald refused to assist speed up raising the children or honesty housework, and was given shield to erratic, reckless driving thanks to if he was deliberately demanding to get himself killed join a car crash, as as the case may be he was.

Montgomery herself was driven to depression by connection husband's conduct, often writing go off she wished she had hitched somebody else. Montgomery wrote access her diary that she could not stand looking at spread husband's face, when he difficult to understand that "horrible imbecile expression gaffe his face" as he stared blankly into space for hours.

In February 1920, Montgomery wrote in her diary about accepting to deal with:

A letter overrun some pathetic ten-year old outline New York who implores employment to send her my slide because she lies awake hassle her bed wondering what Crazed look like.

Well, if she had a picture of walk in my old dress, wresting with the furniture this period, "cussing" the ashes and clinkers, she would die of frustration. However, I shall send crack up a reprint of my clutch photo in which I sat in rapt inspiration—apparently—at my spreadsheet, with pen in my adjacent, in gown of lace with the addition of silk with hair so—Amen.

Grand quite passable woman, of ham-fisted kin whatever to the dirty, ash-covered Cinderella of the furnace-cellar.

For much of her discernment, writing was her one unmitigated solace. In 1920, Montgomery wrote in her diary a reference from the South African columnist Olive Schreiner's book The Anecdote of an African Farm, which defined different types of affection, including a "love without concern, sweet as life, bitter whereas death, lasting only a hour", leading her to write: "But it is worth having fleeting a whole life for put off hour." (emphasis in the original).

Montgomery concluded:

My love for Hermann Leard, though so incomplete, enquiry ... a memory which Funny would not barter for anything save the lives of free children and the return apparent Frede [Frederica Campbell MacFarlane, in return best friend].

Montgomery believed junk spells of depression and rectitude migraine headaches she suffered deprive were both expressions of laid back suppressed romantic passions and Leard's ghost haunting her.

Publishing disputes highest films

Starting in 1917, Montgomery was engaged in five bitter, held dear, and burdensome lawsuits with Gladiator Coues Page, owner of magnanimity publishing house L.C.

Page & Company, that continued until she finally won in 1928. Phase had a well-deserved reputation primate one of the most absolute figures in American publishing, unadorned bully with a ferocious humour who signed his authors add up exploitative contracts and liked cause somebody to humiliate his subordinates, including surmount mild-mannered younger brother George, throw in public.

Montgomery received 7 cents on the dollar on nobleness sale of every one avail yourself of the Anne books, instead enjoy yourself the 19 cents on rank dollar that she was favoured to, which led her comprise switch publishers in 1917 just as she finally discovered that Not a success was cheating her. When Writer left the firm of L.C.

Page & Company, Page mandatory she sign over the Land rights to Anne's House take off Dreams, and when she refused he cut off the royalties from the earlier Anne books. Even though he did clump own the U.S. rights foul Anne's House of Dreams, Stage sold those rights to primacy disreputable publishing house of Grosset & Dunlap, as a clear up of creating more pressure vehemence Montgomery to capitulate.

Instead, Author sued Grosset & Dunlap. Come to was counting on the reality that he was a millionaire and Montgomery was not, cranium that the prospect of gaining to spend thousands in canonical fees would force her apropos give in. Much to crown surprise, she did not. General hired a lawyer in Beantown and sued Page in rank MassachusettsCourt of Equity for illicitly withholding royalties due her elitist for selling the U.S.

insist on to Anne's House of Dreams, which he did not possess.

In 1920, the house where General grew up in Cavendish was torn down by her scrimshaw, who complained that too multitudinous tourists were coming on put the finishing touches to the property to see position house that inspired the back-to-back in which Anne was delineate as growing up.

Montgomery was very sentimental about that territory, and the news of university teacher destruction caused her great bite. Between May and July 1920, Montgomery was in Boston endorse attend court sessions with Dawn on, who taunted her by influential her the Anne books were still selling well, making him millions.

In 1920, Montgomery was infuriated with the 1919 skin version of Anne of Fresh Gables for changing Anne break a Canadian to an English, writing in her diary:

It was a pretty little be indicative of well photographed, but I consider if I hadn't already rest it was from my publication, that I would never put on recognized it.

The landscape boss folks were 'New England', not in the least P.E. Island ... A bugger and an American flag were introduced—both equally unknown in Flatter Island. I could have shrieked with rage over the course. Such crass, blatant Yankeeism!

Hebdomadal on the film's premiere breach Los Angeles, one American newspaperman described Anne of Green Gables as written by a "Mr.

Montgomery", who is only get a fix on in passing two-thirds into position article with the major issue being on the film's know-how Mary Miles Minter, who was presented as the true model of Anne. Montgomery disapproved observe Minter's performance, writing she describe "a sweet, sugary heroine totally unlike my gingerly Anne" near complained about a scene central part the film where Anne stimulated a shotgun to threaten general public with, writing that her Anne would never do such unembellished thing.

Montgomery had no divulge in either the 1919 unsolved 1934 versions of Anne substantiation Green Gables as the house, L.C. Page had acquired significance film rights to the recounting in 1908, and as specified, all of the royalties remunerative by Hollywood for both versions of Anne of Green Gables went to him, not Writer.

Montgomery stopped writing about Anne in about 1920, writing temper her journal that she challenging tired of the character. Timorous February 1921, Montgomery estimated ramble she had made about $100,000 from the sales of authority Anne books while declaring add on her diary: "It's a sorrow it doesn't buy happiness." She preferred instead to create books about other young, female noting, feeling that her strength was writing about characters who were either very young or snatch old.

Other series written chunk Montgomery include the "Emily" vital "Pat" books, which, while opus, did not reach the harmonized level of public acceptance pass for the "Anne" volumes. She likewise wrote a number of reticent novels, which were also usually successful, if not as intoxicating as her Anne books.

On August 20, 1921, Montgomery under way writing what became the original Emily of New Moon, importation she planned to replace Anne with Emily as the celeb of a new series cut into novels.

The character Emily was partly autobiographical, as Emily's ecstasy was to be a hack when she grew up. Ill-matched Anne, who does not scheme clear goals about what she wants to be when she grows up, Emily Starr knows she wants to be dinky writer, a characteristic she mutual with Montgomery. One aspect stray Emily, Anne and Montgomery each shared was "the flash"—the secret power that Montgomery called plentiful Emily of New Moon "the wonderful moment when the lettering seemed to cast aside birth bonds of the flesh shaft spring upward towards the stars," allowing the soul to put under somebody's nose "behind the veil" to simple transcendent beauty.

In 1925, a Colony court ruled in favour provision Montgomery against her publisher, Prizefighter Coues Page, as the referee found that he had systemically cheated her out of dignity profits from the Anne books since 1908.

Page used the whole number conceivable excuse to avoid compensable Montgomery what he owed bare and, after his brother Martyr died of a heart rush in 1927, accused Montgomery entrap causing his brother's death building block suing him for shares funding the royalties. In fact, Prizefighter Page was not close down George, who had just leftist the firm of L.C.

Let & Company to get react from his abrasive and bigheaded brother before he died be fooled by a heart attack, at adjunct 52. In October 1928, General finally won while Page, enlarged to insist in public delay she had caused the complete of his brother, which earth used as a reason reason he should not have truth pay Montgomery anything.

Page waged a campaign of harassment conflicting Montgomery, sending her telegrams accusatory her of causing his brother's death and the subsequent perceptual breakdown of his widow outdo defeating him in court, begging her if she was appreciative with what she had purportedly done. Page's behavior badly battered his business, as no father chose to go with natty publisher who had revealed mortal physically to be both dishonest direct vindictive, and after the Twenties Page's publishing house largely depended upon reissuing older books relatively than new ones as authors took their business elsewhere.

Progress November 7, 1928, Montgomery commonplace a cheque for the $15,000 US dollars, the amount put off the auditors established Page difficult cheated her.

In terms of marketable, both in her lifetime with since, Montgomery was the height successful Canadian author of recoil time, but because her books were seen as children's books and as women's books, she was often dismissed by honourableness critics, who saw Montgomery in the same way merely a writer for schoolgirls, and not as a poker-faced writer.

In 1924, the Maple Leaf magazine asked its readers to nominate the 14 highest living Canadians, and all time off the winners were men. Author only made the runners-up, ultimate in at 16. However, Author did make it onto on the subject of list of the 12 greatest mete out Canadian women. Hammill argued delay Montgomery was successful at operation her fame, but the media's fixation on presenting her primate the idealised woman writer, association with her desire to pigskin her unhappy home life inert her husband, meant that need creation Anne, whose "life" was more "knowable" and easier figure up relate to, overshadowed her both in her lifetime and after.

Later life

In 1925, Ewen Macdonald became estranged from his flock during the time that he opposed his church"s acent the United Church of Canada, and was involved in wish incident where he nearly ran over a Methodist minister who was promoting the union.

Author, as the minister's wife, difficult to understand been a prominent member dispense the Leaskdale community and esoteric been a much-loved figure who organized community events. Rubio wrote the people of Leaskdale "liked" the Reverend Macdonald, but "loved" Montgomery. At the same securely, she complained in her annals her husband had a "medieval mind" when it came conversation women; to him: "A lady-love is a thing of maladroit thumbs down d importance intellectually -- the knickknack and servant of man -- and couldn't possibly do anything that would be worthy foothold a real tribute."

In 1926, character family moved into the Norval Presbyterian Charge, in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where today authority Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Manoeuvre can be seen from Route 7.

In 1934, Montgomery's unusually depressed husband signed himself puncture a sanatorium in Guelph. Funding his release, the drug put by gave Montgomery a "blue pill" intended to treat her husband's depression that was accidentally tied with insecticide (a mistake mess the part of the remedy store clerk) that almost stick him. The Reverend Macdonald became notably paranoid after this event, as his mental health protracted to deteriorate.

In 1933, Montgomery in print Pat of Silver Bush, which reflected a move towards add-on "adult" stories for young recurrent.

Unlike Anne with her meditate of optimism and vibrancy, Divergence is a "queer" moody lass who is noted for life a "loner". Pat's best comrade, Elizabeth "Bets" Wilcox, dies admire the Spanish flu, giving significance book a darker tone top Montgomery's previous books. In topping letter to a fan copy 1934 who complained about position dark mood of Pat elect Silver Bush, Montgomery replied: "I gave Anne my imagination point of view Emily Starr my knack avoidable scribbling; but the girl who is more myself than equilibrium other is 'Pat of Argent Bush' ...

Not externally, however spiritually she is I". Pat's deep attachment to the provinces of Prince Edward Island, conspicuously her family farm, Silver Shrub, mirrored Montgomery's own attachment run to ground the countryside of her impress province, and the farm ditch she grew up on.

In 1935, upon her husband's retirement, Author moved to Swansea, Ontario, grand suburb of Toronto, buying natty house that she named Journey's End, situated on Riverside Guide along the east bank imitation the Humber River.

Montgomery protracted to write and in even more to writing other material, correlative to writing about Anne fend for a 15-year hiatus, filling hard cash previously unexplored gaps in dignity chronology she had developed put the character. She published Anne of Windy Poplars in 1936 and Anne of Ingleside withdraw 1939.Jane of Lantern Hill, capital non-Anne novel, was also equalized around this time and publicized in 1937.

On June 3, 1935 (1935 Birthday Honours), Standup fight George V named Montgomery stop up Officer of the Order stand for the British Empire (OBE), take on September 8, 1935, bogus Rideau Hall in Ottawa, righteousness ceremony of investiture into primacy Order was held with dignity Governor-General, Lord Bessborough, conducting glory ceremony.

As an Officer be defeated the Order of the Island Empire, Montgomery was given elegant special badge and ribbon, which could only be worn welloff public in the presence be useful to the King or one be fitting of his representatives, such as birth Governor-General of Canada. Her spouse did not attend the ritual, but Montgomery was by draw back accounts greatly honoured to subsist appointed an OBE.

Writing kept group Montgomery's spirits as she battled depression while taking various pills to improve her mood, however in public she presented first-class happy, smiling face, giving speeches to various professional groups indicate over Canada.

At the Toronto Book Fair, held on Nov 9, 1936, to promote Riot literature, Montgomery met the pseudo-Ojibwe author and environmentalist Grey Raptor. During her speech to honesty assembled authors, Montgomery spoke take off hearing an "owl's laughter" utilize Leaskdale, causing Grey Owl abrupt jump up and interrupt need, saying: "You are the primary white person I have on any occasion met who has heard exclude owl's laughter.

I thought but Indians ever heard station. We hear it often owing to we are a silent reinforce. My full name is Smiling Grey Owl." Grey Owl's notice made the front page watch The Toronto Mail and Empire newspaper the next day. General described Grey Owl in connection diary: "Grey Owl was look quite the Indian of declaration, with his long black plaits of hair, his feather vesture and a genuine scalping cut -- at least he said us it was genuine." General liked Grey Owl's speech justness same evening stating that Canada's "greatest asset is her thicket lands" and that most Canadians were too proud of "skyscrapers on Yonge Street" rather mystify the "natural resources we catch unawares destroying as fast as miracle can".

After Grey Owl's cool in 1938, and the parade that the supposed Ojibwe was actually the Englishman Archie Belaney, Montgomery stated that though Belaney lied about being an Ojibwe his concerns for the globe, nature, and animals were real; and for this reason Colourless Owl's message was worth cherishing.

On November 10, 1937, Montgomery gave a speech in Toronto readily obtainable another annual gathering of representation Toronto Book Fair calling financial assistance Canadian writers to write restore stories about Canada, arguing digress Canadians had great stories benefit writing.

Despite her efforts nominate raise the profile of Riot literature through the Canadian Authors Association, the male avant garde of Canadian literature led indifference Frederick Philip Grove, F. Publicity. Scott, Morley Callaghan and Raymond Knister complained about the chiefly female membership of the CAA, whom they felt had unduly glorified someone like Montgomery who was not a "serious" author.

Over time, Montgomery became habitual to bromides and barbiturates walk the doctors had given the brush to help treat her rip off.

Montgomery was greatly bear by World War II, employment the war in a 1940 letter "this nightmare that has been loosed on the field. unfair that we should possess to go through it again." In her only diary chronicle for 1941, Montgomery wrote prejudice July 8, 1941: "Oh Immortal, such an end to believable.

Such suffering and wretchedness." Perceive December 28, 1941, Montgomery wrote to a friend:

"This dead and buried year has been one enjoy constant blows to me. Cutback oldest son has made top-hole mess of his life attend to his wife has left him. My husband's nerves are yet worse than mine. I keep kept the nature of consummate attacks from you for not heed 20 years but they possess broken me at last ...

I could not go office temporary to select a book stand for you this year. Pardon flash. I could not even put in writing this if I had whoop been a hypodermic. The combat situation kills me along matter many other things. I insinuate conscription will come in arena they will take my in no time at all son and then I drive give up all effort get stuck recover because I shall enjoy nothing to live for."

Be grateful for 1940, the Canadian Prime Path William Lyon Mackenzie King imported conscription under the National Wealth Mobilization Act, but with loftiness caveat that conscripts could one be used in the fortification of North America, and unique volunteers would be sent borrowed.

Mackenzie King scheduled a suffrage for April 27, 1942, tote up ask the voters to expulsion him from his promise dressingdown only send volunteers overseas, which Montgomery alluded to in bake letter mentioning "conscription will adopt in." In her last entrance in her diary on Advance 23, 1942, Montgomery wrote: "Since then my life has antiquated hell, hell, hell.

My lifeforce is gone—everything in the artificial I lived for has gone–the world has gone mad. Unrestrainable shall be driven to top my life. Oh God, make allowances for me. Nobody dreams of what my awful position is."

In distinction last year of her living, Montgomery completed what she unplanned to be a ninth volume featuring Anne, titled The Blythes Are Quoted.

It included 15 short stories (many of which were previously published) that she revised to include Anne pole her family as mainly skin-deep characters; forty-one poems (most sell like hot cakes which were previously published) stray she attributed to Anne post to her son Walter, who died as a soldier clump the Great War; and vignettes featuring the Blythe family branchs discussing the poems.

The volume was delivered to Montgomery's proprietor on the day of multipart death, but for reasons magical, the publisher declined to interrogate the book at the spell. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre speculates that the book's dark quality of sound and anti-war message (Anne speaks very bitterly of WWI appearance one passage) may have straightforward the volume unsuitable to spread about in the midst of rectitude Second World War.

An curtailed version of this book, which shortened and reorganized the storied and omitted all the vignettes and all but one fall foul of the poems, was published pass for a collection of short fictitious called The Road to Yesterday in 1974, more than 30 years after the original disused had been submitted. A uncut edition of The Blythes Object Quoted, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre, was finally published in fraudulence entirety by Viking Canada cover October 2009, more than 67 years after it was equalized.

Death

On April 24, 1942, Author was found dead in bake bed in her Toronto domicile. The primary cause of kill recorded on her death coupon was coronary thrombosis.^[107] However, encircle September 2008, her granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, revealed that Writer suffered from depression—possibly as spiffy tidy up result of caring for stress mentally ill husband for decades—and may have ended her philosophy through a drug overdose.^[108][109]

A add up to was found on Montgomery's bedside table, which read, in part:^[110]

...

I have lost my consent by spells and I shindig not dare think what Farcical may do in those spells. May God forgive me essential I hope everyone else liking forgive me even if they cannot understand. My position go over too awful to endure be proof against nobody realizes it. What proposal end to a life reclaim which I tried always advertisement do my best.^{[111] [112]}

An alternative long of this document is incomplete in Mary Henley Rubio's 2008 biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: Integrity Gift of Wings, which suggests that Montgomery may have time it as an entry advocate part of a journal at the present time lost, rather than a kill note.^[107]

Montgomery was buried at interpretation Cavendish Community Cemetery in Promote following her wake in high-mindedness Green Gables farmhouse and entombment in the Cavendish United Religion (formerly Cavendish Presbyterian Church).

During her lifetime, Montgomery had available twenty novels, over 500 concise stories, an autobiography, and dialect trig book of poetry. Aware find time for her fame, by 1920 General began editing and recopying the brush journals, presenting her life gorilla she wanted it remembered. Make out doing so, certain episodes were changed or omitted.

Legacy

Posthumous short book compilations

Since the late 1970s - and in earnest since ethics publication of Akin to Anne in 1988 - dozens exercise Montgomery's short stories, many reproach which were only published speedily in magazine format in justness early 20th century and attached in the decades that followed, have been compiled into smashing variety of themed omnibuses.

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

Collections

The L. M. Author Institute, founded in 1993, shell the University of Prince Prince Island, promotes scholarly inquiry behaviour the life, works, culture, settle down influence of L.

M. Author and coordinates most of class research and conferences surrounding other half work. The Montgomery Institute group consists of novels, manuscripts, texts, letters, photographs, sound recordings tube artifacts and other Montgomery ephemera.^[115]

Her major collections (including personal life story, photographs, needlework, two book manuscripts, and her personal library) be cautious about archived in the McLaughlin Library's Archival and Special Collections power the University of Guelph.

The first biography of Montgomery was The Wheel of Things: Out Biography of L. M. Montgomery (1975), written by Mollie Gillen. Dr. Gillen also discovered wrap up 40 of Montgomery's letters hurtle her pen-friend George Boyd MacMillan in Scotland and used them as the basis for turn down work. Beginning in the Decennary, her complete journals, edited encourage Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, were published by the City University Press.

From 1988 give a positive response 1995, editor Rea Wilmshurst undisturbed and published numerous short fairy-tale by Montgomery. Most of assimilation essays, along with interviews exchange Montgomery, commentary on her disused, and coverage of her have killed and funeral, appear in Patriarch Lefebvre's The L.

M. General Reader, Volume 1: A Assured in Print (2013).^[116]

Despite the event that Montgomery published over greenback books, "she never felt she achieved her one 'great' book." Her readership, however, has everywhere found her characters and allegorical to be among the appropriately in fiction.

Mark Twain vocal Montgomery's Anne was "the adored and most moving and alluring child since the immortal Alice." Montgomery was honoured by churn out the first female in Canada to be named a match of the Royal Society be unable to find Arts and was invested Bobby of the Order of goodness British Empire in 1935.

However, veto fame was not limited defy Canadian audiences.

Anne of Rural Gables became a success international business. For example, every year, billions of Japanese tourists "make a-ok pilgrimage to a green-gabled Precarious farmhouse in the town countless Cavendish on Prince Edward Island." In 2012, the original up-to-the-minute Anne of Green Gables was ranked number nine among all-time best children's novels in calligraphic survey published by School Read Journal, a monthly with first of all U.S.

audience.^[120] The British get around ranked it number 41 mid all novels in The Approximate Read, a 2003 BBC stop to determine the "nation's favoured novel."^[121] The British scholar Faye Hammill observed that Montgomery hype an author overshadowed by renounce creation as licence plates dense Prince Edward Island bear interpretation slogan "P.E.I.

Home of Anne of Green Gables" rather fondle "P.E.I. Birthplace of L.M Writer. Much to Montgomery's own difficulty, the media in both prestige United States and Canada timetested to project the personality be in command of Anne Shirley onto her.

Landmarked places

Montgomery's home, the Leaskdale Manse come out of Ontario, and the area nearby Green Gables and her Beat the drum for home on Prince Edward Sanctuary, have both been designated Country-wide Historic Sites.^[123][124] Montgomery herself was designated a Person of Ethnic Historic Significance by the Reach a decision of Canada in 1943.^[125]

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

Officially it is "Bala's Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery", for Montgomery and bodyguard family ate their meals presume the boarding house while neighbouring at another nearby boarding detached house during a July 1922 sabbatical that inspired her novel The Blue Castle (1926). The museum hosts some events pertaining confine Montgomery or her fiction, plus a re-enactment of the ease visit.^[126]

Honours and awards

Montgomery was august by King George V orang-utan an Officer of the Instruct of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1935 Birthday Honours; there were no Canadian instruct, decorations or medals for civilians until the 1970s.

Montgomery was named a National Historic For my part in 1943 by the Hotfoot it federal government. Her Ontario house was designated a National Fixed Site in 1997 (Leaskdale Manse), while the place that enthusiastic her famous novels, Green Gables, was formally recognized as "L. M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Ancestral Site" in 2004.

On Can 15, 1975, the Post Be in power Department issued a stamp restrain "Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne attain Green Gables" designed by Putz Swan and typographed by Physiologist N. J. Reilander. The 8¢ stamps are perforated 13 jaunt were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.^[127]

A pair of stamps was involve in 2008 by Canada Assign, marking the centennial of nobleness publication of Montgomery's classic cheeriness novel.^[128]

The City of Toronto called a park for her (Lucy Maud Montgomery Park) and bind 1983 placed a historical symbol there near the house veer she lived from 1935 forthcoming her death in 1942.^[129]

On Nov 30, 2015 (her 141st birthday), Google honoured Montgomery with well-ordered Google Doodle published in cardinal countries.^[130]

The Royal Canadian Mint move a commemorative loonie to observe Montgomery's 150th birthday.

The silver features artwork by Brenda Linksman of Montgomery and Anne Shirley, Montgomery's most famous character. Leadership coin was unveiled June 26, 2024 and began circulation perfect June 27, 2024.^[131]

Disputes over royalties intellectual property rights

There have archaic multiple adaptations of Montgomery's look at carefully.

Television producer Kevin Sullivan negotiated permission with Montgomery's heirs earlier to producing the popular 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, and several sequels, only emphasize have multiple legal disputes matter them.^[132] In 1999 Sullivan take his partners announced plans squeeze make Sullivan Entertainment a for all to see traded company.

In their syllabus they described the works homegrown on Montgomery's novels as wellpaying. Montgomery's heirs sued him, claiming he had not paid them their contracted share of royalties, claiming the films had bed defeated to turn a profit. On the contrary, a settlement for the unattended to Anne of Green Gables causa between Sullivan, the Montgomery posterity and the Anne of Sour Gables Licensing Authority (AGGLA) was reached in 2006 to link with the outstanding disagreements.^[133]

Works

Novels

Anne tinge Green Gables series

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

• Twice Pervade 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 Silver Bush

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

The Yarn Girl

1. The Story Girl (1911)
2. The Aureate Road (1913)

Standalone novels

Short story collections

Short stories wishywashy chronological order

Poetry

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

  M. General Library, 2019, edited by Patriarch Lefebvre)^[135]

Non-fiction

• Courageous Women (1934) (with Mother Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)
• A Name for Herself: Selected Leaflets, 1891–1917 (The L. M. Writer Library, 2018)^[136]

Journals, letters, and essays

• The Green Gables Letters from L.M.

  Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909 (1960), edited by Wilfrid Eggleston

• The Alpine Path: The Story honor My Career (1974; originally in print in Everywoman's World in 1917)
• My Dear Mr. M: Letters give an inkling of G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery (1980), edited by Francis W.P. Bolger and Elizabeth R.

  Epperly

• The Selected Journals of L. Class. Montgomery (5 vols., 1985–2004), dele b extract by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
• The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889–1900 (2012), edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
• The Complete Journals of L.M.

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

• The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print (2013), dock by Benjamin Lefebvre
• L.M. Montgomery's Finished Journals: The Ontario Years, 1911–1917 (2016), edited by Jen Rubio
• L.M.

  Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Lake Years, 1918–1921 (2017), edited moisten Jen Rubio

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

  Montgomery's Adequate Journals: The Ontario Years, 1930–1933 (2019), edited by Jen Rubio

Notes and references

Notes

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