The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume I: 1889–1910 edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston was published by the Oxford University Press in 1985. L.M. Montgomery wrote extensive journals throughout her life, which provide personal insight to the talented author. Volume I covers her adolescence and school years through the writing and publication of Anne of Green Gables.
Here is the description of the volume from the Oxford University Press:
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.
"Montgomery comes to life in a way that is only possible in the pages of a journal."
-Toronto Star
"These are journals so enlightening, so full of wisdom, humor, philosophy and tragedy that they are worth a winter's reading and reflection."
- Ottawa Citizen
"We owe Professors Rubio and Waterston a very large debt of gratitude for their patient work on these volumes; they are a record of life-writing unique in our literature and outstanding in any company."
- Clara Thomas, Literary Review of Canada
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