The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1889-1910

The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1889-1910
ISBN-10
0195415124
ISBN-13
9780195415124
Series
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2000-01-15
Publisher
Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Authors
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston

Description

Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. Beginning when Lucy Maud Montgomery is fourteen, this first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island. It recounts her schooldays in Cavendish, redolent with incidents, impressions, and romantic "crushes" that found their way into her fiction; a year spent in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother; a year of study at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, where she trained to be a teacher, and another at Dalhousie University; her teaching years; a powerful infatuation with the son of a family she lived with; a long and mostly unhappy period of keeping house for her grandmother; and the publication of Anne of Green Gables. The autobiographical content will fascinate every devoted reader of the Anne books. But the Montgomery journals are especially interesting because they provide a unique social history and the privilege of viewing closely the life of a remarkable woman. Comprising perhaps the most vivid and detailed memoir in Canadian letters, the journals will join Anne of Green Gables in ensuring Montgomery's lasting place in Canadian literature. This volume is a rich and engrossing prelude to the whole.

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