A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 by L.M. Montgomery and edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in November 2018. A part of "The L.M. Montgomery Library," this book reprints a collection of L.M. Montgomery's early writings, which were originally published in periodicals, as well as her memoir The Alpine Path.
Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:
Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While these works consisted primarily of poems and short stories, she also experimented with a wider range of forms, particularly during the early years of her career, at which point she tested out several authorial identities before settling on the professional moniker "L.M. Montgomery."
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 is the first in a series of volumes collecting Montgomery’s extensive contributions to periodicals. Leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre discusses these so-called miscellaneous pieces in relation to the works of English-speaking women writers who preceded her and the strategies they used to succeed, including the decision to publish under gender-neutral signatures. Among the highlights of the volume are Montgomery’s contributions to student periodicals, a weekly newspaper column entitled "Around the Table," a long-lost story narrated first by a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and then by the man she wishes she had married instead, and a new edition of her 1917 celebrity memoir, "The Alpine Path." Drawing fascinating links to Montgomery’s life writing, career, and fiction, this volume will offer scholars and readers alike an intriguing new look at the work of Canada’s most enduringly popular author.
This book collects a majority of Montgomery’s early and non-fiction publications across a variety of forms and places them in the context of her career and the narrative strategies of women authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
"In this first volume of ‘The L.M. Montgomery Library,’ Benjamin Lefebvre collects and expertly annotates Montgomery’s non-fiction periodical writing, presenting it as a record of her literary apprenticeship … The thirty-five instalments of her column ‘Around the Table,’ signed ‘Cynthia,’ are enthralling,...and A Name for Herself is worth the cover price for these pieces alone."
—Faye Hammill, Times Literary Supplement
"In this rich volume, Lefebvre’s selections reveal Montgomery as a professional writer who deserves a strong and enduring presence in Canadian letters."
—Rita Bode, Trent University in University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018
The book includes the following contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface
A Note on the Text
PART 1 EARLY AND STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
The Wreck of the "Marco Polo"
A Western Eden
From Prince Albert to P.E. Island
The Usual Way
Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse
High School Life in Saskatchewan
Valedictory
"Portia" – A Study
"Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?"
Crooked Answers
The Bad Boy of Blanktown School
James Henry, Truant
A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College
To the Editor
Part 2 MAUD MONTGOMERY, NEWSPAPER WOMAN
A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery
Around the Table
Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers
Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores
Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates
Netted Doily
Innocent Irreverence
Part 3 THE UPWARD CLIMB TO HEIGHTS SUBLIME
Two Sides of a Life Story
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN: 9781487504038
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