Montgomery, L. M.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as simply L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables.
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Biography
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island. She attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown to get a teaching certificate. In 1895-96 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the age of seventeen, she began working for the newspapers Chronicle and Echo. She moved back to Prince Edward Island, following a time when she lived in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father.
After working as a teacher in various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish to live with her grandmother. For a short time in 1901 and 1902 she worked in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the newspapers Chronicle and Echo. She returned to live with and care for her grandmother in 1902. She was inspired to write her first books during this time on Prince Edward Island. In 1911, she married the Rev. Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian Minister, and moved to Ontario where he had taken the position of minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale in present-day Uxbridge Township, that was also affiliated with the former (closed 1968) Presbyterian congregation in nearby Zephyr.
She wrote her next eleven books from the Manse at Leaskdale, Ontario. The Manse was sold by the congregation and is now the Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum. The family, with two surviving children, Chester, and Stuart (Hugh Alexander died at birth in 1913), moved in 1926 to the Norval Presbyterian Charge, in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where a Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden can be seen from Highway 7. She died in Toronto in 1942, and was buried at Cavendish.
Her major collections are archived at the University of Guelph, while the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island coordinates most of the research and conferences surrounding her work. Her complete journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, have recently been published by the Oxford University Press.
As the British writer Tony Barrell has pointed out (London Sunday Times, November 27, 2005), Montgomery was born on exactly the same day as Sir Winston Churchill, the celebrated British prime minister of the second world war.
Novels
- 1908 - Anne of Green Gables
- 1909 - Anne of Avonlea
- 1910 - Kilmeny of the Orchard
- 1911 - The Story Girl
- 1913 - The Golden Road (sequel to The Story Girl)
- 1915 - Anne of the Island
- 1917 - Anne's House of Dreams
- 1919 - Rainbow Valley
- 1920 - Rilla of Ingleside
- 1923 - Emily of New Moon
- 1925 - Emily Climbs
- 1926 - The Blue Castle
- 1927 - Emily's Quest
- 1929 - Magic for Marigold
- 1931 - A Tangled Web
- 1933 - Pat of Silver Bush
- 1935 - Mistress Pat (sequel to Pat of Silver Bush)
- 1936 - Anne of Windy Poplars
- 1937 - Jane of Lantern Hill
- 1939 - Anne of Ingleside
Short stories collections
- 1912 - Chronicles of Avonlea
- 1920 - Further Chronicles of Avonlea
- 1934 - Courageous Women (with others)
- 1974 - The Road to Yesterday
- 1979 - The Doctor's Sweetheart
- 1988 - Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans
- 1989 - Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
- 1990 - Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side
- 1991 - After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed
- 1993 - Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement
- 1994 - At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales
- 1995 - Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence
- 1995 - Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories
Poetry
- 1916 - The Watchman & Other Poems
External links
- Works by Lucy Maud Montgomery at Project Gutenberg
- Picturing A Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers
- Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute
- An L.M. Montgomery Resource Page is an excellent collection.
- Little More Montgomery has information on the author's life in Ontario
- Anne in Japan FAQ 1.0 provides basic information as to Montgomery's popularity in Japan.
- Representative Poetry Online
- Famous Canadians
- Anne3.com Home of the Sullivan Anne of Green Gables trilogy with info on the movies and the Avonlea Message Boards
- Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum Website]
- Ontario Historical Site Marker at Leasksdale
- Interesting essay on the connections between LM Montgomery's life and her fiction