Bibliography of L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author who wrote works that have been read by millions the world over. She was a prolific writer throughout her lifetime, penning over 20 books, including fictional novels, a volume of poetry, and short story collections. She also wrote a book of essays with collaborating authors. L.M. Montgomery achieved her greatest popular success in creating the character Anne Shirley of the Anne of Green Gables series.

L.M. Montgomery's bibliography of works published during her lifetime is listed below:

L.M. Montgomery's Publications	Date
Anne of Green Gables	1908
Anne of Avonlea	1909
Kilmeny of the Orchard	1910
The Story Girl	1911
Chronicles of Avonlea	1912
The Golden Road	1913
Anne of the Island	1915
The Watchman and Other Poems	1916
Anne's House of Dreams	1917
Rainbow Valley	1919
Further Chronicles of Avonlea	1920
Rilla of Ingleside	1921
Emily of New Moon	1923
Emily Climbs	1925
The Blue Castle	1926
Emily's Quest	1927
Magic for Marigold	1929
A Tangled Web	1931
Pat of Silver Bush	1933
Courageous Women    (Essays written with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)	1934
Mistress Pat	1935
Anne of Windy Poplars	1936
Jane of Lantern Hill	1937
Anne of Ingleside	1939

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The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and edited by Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, and Mary E. Doody Jones was published by the Oxford University Press in August 1997. This book was the first fully annotated edition of the novel, and it features explanatory notes throughout the text. The volume includes a chronology of L.M. Montgomery's life, a description of the book's publication, and details on the autobiographical connections between L.M. Montgomery and Anne Shirley. In the appendices, the editors reveal the novel's wide-ranging literary and cultural allusions as well as information on the geography and history of Prince Edward Island. In addition, there are in-depth details on the time period in which the novel was set, so modern readers can gain insight to Anne's world.


Here is the description of the volume from the Oxford University Press:

Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books of her day, she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Tom Sawyer--also orphans, like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing, conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so, Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts.

Now, in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables, readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody, Mary Doody Jones, and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated, completely revised text, along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters, the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery, and the book's astonishing range of literary, biblical, and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education, orphanages, music, and literature of Anne's time; and the horticulture, homemade artifacts, and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction, which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts, explores those aspects of Montgomery's life most relevant to the story, examines revisions in the manuscripts, and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours.

Elegantly and beautifully designed, with generous illustrations from previous editions, photographs of the places the novel inhabits, and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Anne's world, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the world's most charming stories.

Reviews (see additional reviews)

"Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables has reached the status of both children's literary classic and cult phenomenon.... For those unable to visit her home, three serious scholars have annotated the beloved work.... Many period photographs add to the coverage, and the research appears to be so thorough that it seems unlikely that a revised edition of this work will ever be necessary. Those who worship at the feet of the divine Anne Shirley may find that this volume will satisfy all their desires for adulation and information."
-The Horn Book Inc

"There's plenty here for scholars and fans; this edition should not be relegated to the reference shelves."
-Kirkus Reviews

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The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album is a book compiled by Kevin McCabe and edited by Alexandra Heilbron that was published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in February 1999. This coffee table book is a beautiful collection of information about L.M. Montgomery's life and works, with essays on a wide breath of topics. The book is generously illustrated with photographs, book covers, news articles, and more.

A new edition of the book was published in 2008.

Here is the description of the book from Fitzhenry & Whiteside:

This striking collection of Lucy Maud Montgomery facts, lore, memorabilia, and tidings provides a comprehensive look at the life and times of one of Canada's most beloved authors. Containing over 400 photographs and illustrations, and nearly 100 articles, The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album weaves together many sides of Maud's complex and multi-faceted life-journey, from the obscure Maritime teacher to internationally beloved author.

Montgomery's own letters, photographs and newspaper articles help illuminate the persona little known beyond the Anne of Green Gables legend - the young Dalhousie student, the nurturing mother and social arbiter, the cat lover, accomplished thespian and avid photographer.

We meet her many beaux and suitors, learn how she coped with economic difficulty during the Depression, and discover how she challenged the exploitive nature of her first publisher, L.C. Page.

Intriguing essays by leading experts shed new light on this fascinating and sometimes troubled genius. Mary Rubio tells us how the private journals of Prince Edward Island's most cherished treasure ended up in Guelph, Ontario alongside one of Maud's literary ancestors, Edith Katherine Smith explores the complex and often contradictory aspects of the passionate puritan, and Sandra Gwyn discusses Maud's influence on such widely-known contemporary authors, as Kit Pearson, Jane Urquhart, and winner of the 1998 Giller Prize, Alice Munro.

Rounding out this fascinating and eclectic treasure trove is a detailed account of Anne of Green Gables festivals world wide, e-mail addresses to all Lucy Maud Montgomery newsletters, web-sites, and much, much more.

Review

"This large, glossy volume is more than just an attractive coffee-table book about one of Canada’s best-loved authors; it is a veritable treasure trove for die-hard Montgomery fans."
–Elisabeth Anne MacDonald-Murray, Canadian Book Review Annual Online

The book includes the following content and essays:

PREFACE by Don Harron
Lucy Maud Montgomery: Passionate Puritan Edith Katherine Smith
Abegweit, "I have come home" L.M. Montgomery
Order of the British Empire Mollie Gillen

Chapter 1. THE LAND SHE WAS BORN TO

A Pilgrimage to L.M. Montgomery's Island Kevin McCabe
The Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace, New London Father Bolger
The Macneill Homestead: "Hallowed Ground" Jennie Macneill
The Hon. Donald Montgomery Homestead Edith Katherine Smith
Silver Bush Sandy Wagner
Green Gables Carolyn Strom Collins

Chapter 2. CHILDHOOD IN P.E.I., 1874-1890

Growing up in Cavendish Kevin McCabe
Maud's Early Schooldays Kevin McCabe
The Alpine Path Kevin McCabe
The Marco Polo: "The Fastest Ship in the World" Kevin McCabe
"The Wreck of the Marco Polo" L.M. Montgomery
Letters Written by Eleven-year-old Maud Robertson Library
The Fashions of L.M. Montgomery Jonathan Walford

Chapter 3. STARTING FRESH IN SASKATCHEWAN, 1890-1

Hugh John Montgomery in Saskatchewan, 1880-90 Kevin McCabe
Lucy Maud Montgomery in Prince Albert Bill Smiley

Chapter 4. THE HAPPIEST YEARS OF MY LIFE, 1891-1898

"The Happiest Year of My Life:" Prince of Wales College Kevin McCabe
The Teaching Years Joanne Wood
Dalhousie University, 1895-96 Kevin McCabe
The Scrapbooks Carolyn Strom Collins
Maud's Beaux Alexandra Heilbron
True Love By A Whisker Bev Hayden

Chapter 5. EARLY WRITING CAREER, 1899-1902

Budding Poetess Kevin McCabe
Bliss Carman
L. M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture John Ferns
Halifax Days Carol Dobson
Lucy Maud Montgomery's Table Talk Kevin McCabe
Through the Eyes of L.M. Montgomery Elizabeth R. Epperly
L.M. Montgomery and Her Pen-Pals Kevin McCabe
Ephraim Weber Kevin McCabe

Chapter 6. RETURN TO CAVENDISH, 1903-1911

A Life Less Happy: the Dilemma of Being Maud Kevin McCabe
Wintertime in Cavendish, 1908 Jennie Macneill
Was Anne a Real Girl? Alexandra Heilbron
Images of Anne Throughout the Years Jack Hutton and Linda Jackson-Hutton
Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables The Boston Republic
Anne Around the World Alexandra Heilbron
Cavendish's 1911 Presentation to Miss Montgomery
Maud's Letter to Fannie Wise L.M. Montgomery

Chapter 7. ONTARIO

Part A. LEASKDALE, 1911-1926

Mrs. Macdonald of the Leakdale Manse Allan McGillivray
The Great War Gabrielle Ceraldi
Chester and Stuart: A Photo Album Kevin McCabe
A Star and a Stone: Maud and Ewen Macdonald Joanne Wood
Two Very Necessary People: Frede And Ewen Kevin McCabe
A Tour of Uxbridge and Leakdale Kevin McCabe

Part B. NORVAL, 1926-35

Norval: Then and Now John Ferns
Living in Norval Kelly Crawford
Maud's and Anne's Recipes Kelly Crawford, Elaine Crawford, Kate Macdonald
L.M. Montgomery and Friendship Mary Beth Cavert
Good Help is Hard to Find Melanie Kingston
LMM and Anne Go to Court Marian Hebb

Part C. TORONTO, 1935-42

Toronto: 1935-42 John Ferns
My Meeting with L.M. Montgomery Winifred Alston
Flowers and L.M. Montgomery Elizabeth Waterston
My Grandmother Donny Luella Veijalainen
L.M. Montgomery Replies to a Young Fan Trudy Ramsey
Remembering Maud in Toronto Yuka Kajihara and D. Jason Nolan
L.M. Montgomery's Last Letter to Ephraim Weber
The Funeral of L.M. Montgomery Kevin McCabe
Obituary of L.M. Montgomery New York Times
Obituary of Ewen Macdonald Presbyterian Register

Chapter 8. MONTGOMERY ON STAGE AND SCREEN

Is This My Anne L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables: The Musical Don Harron & Norman Campbell
Anne of Green Gables: the Sullivan Adaptations Alexandra Heilbron
Road to Avonlea: A Canadian Success Story Alexandra Heilbron
The Sets of Avonlea Ben Jansen
Avonlea Without Anne Ben Lefebre
An Avonlea Symphony Ben Jansen
Emily of New Moon on Television Alexandra Heilbron

Chapter 9. LMM FESTIVALS

Cavendish's Annual Lucy Maud Montgomery Festival Linda Lowther
Montgomery Christmas in Norval Kathy Gastle
Bala's Museum with Memories of L.M. Montgomery Jack Hutton
Anne Shirley Look-Alike Contests Jack Hutton
Celebrating Anne of the Silver Screen at Westfield Heritage Centre Margaret Firth
Uxbridge/Leakdale L. M. Montgomery Days
Canadian World in Japan Alexandra Heilbron

Chapter 10. SHADES OF L.M. MONTGOMERY

"A Page of Grumbles:" L.M. Montgomery and her Journals Elizabeth Ballantyne
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Carol Shields
Maud's Money Richard Dionne
Lucy Maud Words
The Motoring Macdonalds Alexandra Heilbron
The Cancer Man
The Sagittarius Woman
The Psychic World of Maud Montgomery Alexandra Heilbron

Chapter 11. ANNE INTERNATIONAL

An Influential Anne in Japan Yuka Kajihara
Home Sweet Home
Japan of Green Gables Murray Whyte
Anne of Red Hair Calvin Trillin
The Kindred Spirits E-mail Newsletter M.E. Smith
Kindred Spirits from Around the World
L.M. Montgomery Magazines and Newsletters
Finding L.M. Montgomery in Quebec Isabelle Goyette
Ethnic Minorities in Montgomery's Writing Kevin McCabe
Canada's Commemorate Stamps Alexandra Heilbron
Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority Inc.

Chapter 12. ANNE IN ACADEMIA

L.M. Montgomery's Book Dedications Mary Beth Cavert
The Cavendish Library Joanne Wood
Why L.M. Montgomery's Journals Came to Guelph Mary Rubio
The Author and the Island Anna Macdonald
The Rescue of the Montgomery-MacMillan Letters Mollie Gillen
Anne of Green Gables: A Sign of the Times Mary E. Doody Jones
Rea Wilmshurst and L.M. Montgomery Susan Drain
The Emily Effect Sandra Gwyn
The Pink and Gold Heart L.M. Montgomery

Appendix-Family Tree
Footnotes
Bibliography
Contributors' Biographies
Acknowledgements
Index
Archives
Picture Credits


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L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935

L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935 by Deborah Quaile was published by Wordbird Press on June 15, 2006. The book includes illustrations by Jennifer Osborn. It is organized in the form of a scrapbook and follows Montgomery's years living and working in Norval, Ontario, Canada, including photographs, journal entries, and local newspaper and magazine articles.

Here is the description of the book from Wordbird Press:

The professional life and home life of Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald (author of Anne of Green Gables) were inextricably intertwined. This scrapbook-style history follows Maud’s village life in Norval, Ontario, Canada, where she lived from 1926 to 1935, through photographs, memorabilia, literary quotations, and local journalism. In long-unread issues of newspapers and magazines, and in personal archives, author Deborah Quaile has uncovered hints of Maud that haven’t been seen in decades. The story follows Norval and local history, while at the same time recreating the life of Canada’s favourite author, from her everyday appearance at church socials, to speaking engagements in far-flung cities where standing ovations were cordial recognitions of her other existence.

L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935 reconstructs the reality in which the writer revolved, presenting new material that has not been seen by the current generations of Montgomery scholars and fans. Knowing her fondness for scrapbooking through archives in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, perhaps these are the pages L.M. Montgomery would have loved to create.

The book includes the following contents:

Introduction: The Allure of L.M. Montgomery
Foreword
From Prince Edward Island to the World
Norval History
Maud's Home and Gardens
Friends and Family
Norval and Union Presbyterian Churches
Local Beauty
Life in the Village
Devotions and Duties
Maud's Days
L.M. Montgomery's Accomplishments
Leaving Norval
Remembering Maud: Montgomery in Modern Norval
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

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L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery by Genevieve Wiggins was published by Twayne Publishers in 1992. The book is volume 834 in Twayne's World Author Series, and it was edited by Ruth K. MacDonald, who Wiggins describes in her preface as a "kindred spirit." The volume includes biographical information on L.M. Montgomery and literary criticism of Montgomery's novels, short stories, and poetry. Wiggins notes in her preface that, "This book is the first full-length critical study of the works of L.M. Montgomery and the first extensive study of her work by a non-Canadian."

Here is the description of the book from its dust cover:

The early promise Montgomery displayed in Anne of Green Gables was fulfilled in many ways. She pursued her writing career with indefatigable determination, publishing 20 novels as well as short stories and poems. Montgomery revitalized the ever-popular orphan story, curtailing its customary sentimentality and creating believable protagonists who are appealingly honest and not always well behaved. A lifelong lover of nature, Montgomery was gifted in her ability to convey a sense of place, especially the rural Canada of her youth.

The book includes the following contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology

1 "The Round of Life": L.M. Montgomery

2 "Born of True Love": Anne of Green Gables

3 From Avonlea to Four Winds: 1909–1917

4 More about Anne: 1919–1939

5 "Where Airy Voices Lead": The Emily Trilogy

6 Other Series Heroines: Sara Stanley and Pat Gardiner

7 Novels without Sequels

8 Short Stories and Poems

Afterword

Notes and References

Selected Bibliography

Index


ISBN-13: 978-0805739800


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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in January 2015. This book is a collection of over 400 newspaper reviews and advertisements for L.M. Montgomery's books. In his introduction, Benjamin Lefebvre states, "This third volume, subtitled A Legacy in Review, looks at the coverage Montgomery’s books have received in these reviews in the context of ads, notices, and bestseller lists appearing in print media dedicated to supporting the book industry."


Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:

Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.

Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades.

Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.

The L.M. Montgomery Reader traces the author’s enduring legacy as a Canadian icon and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.

Reviews

"Lefebvre has thoroughly mined earlier scholars’ bibliographies and online newspaper archives to find reviews in periodicals from eight different countries, including the Bookman (London), the Globe (Toronto) and Vogue (New York). . . . Collectively, these reviews . . . represent a superb barometer of [Montgomery’s] fluctuating cultural value as a writer."
—Irene Gammel

"Benjamin Lefebvre amasses a century-long, world-wide array of responses to L.M. Montgomery’s work. Readers will be surprised and amused by his revelation of wild swings in taste and bias among critics of the ever-popular Canadian writer."
—Elizabeth Waterston, Department of English, University of Guelph

The book includes the following contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: A Legacy in Review
BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

A Note on the Text

1 Anne of Green Gables (1908)

2 Anne of Avonlea (1909)

3 Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)

4 The Story Girl (1911)

5 Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)

6 The Golden Road (1913)

7 Anne of the Island (1915)

8 The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)

9 Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)

10 Rainbow Valley (1919)

11 Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)

12 Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

13 Emily of New Moon (1923)

14 Emily Climbs (1925)

15 The Blue Castle (1926)

16 Emily’s Quest (1927)

17 Magic for Marigold (1929)

18 A Tangled Web / Aunt Becky Began It (1931)

19 Pat of Silver Bush (1933)

20 Courageous Women (1934)
WITH MARIAN KEITH AND MABEL BURNS MCKINLEY

21 Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935)

22 Anne of Windy Poplars / Anne of Windy Willows (1936)

23 Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

24 Anne of Ingleside (1939)

Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960–2013
BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

Sources
Bibliography
Index


ISBN: 9781442644939


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Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898-1939

Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898-1939 by L.M. Montgomery and edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in June 2022. A part of "The L.M. Montgomery Library," this book reprints a collection of 25 of L.M. Montgomery's short stories and provides a discussion of each story and Montgomery's writing process.


Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:

Although L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her ability to produce material that would fit the mainstream periodical fiction market as it evolved across almost half a century, many of them also contain early incarnations of characters, storylines, conversations, and settings that she would rework for inclusion in her novels and collections of linked short stories.

In Twice upon a Time, the third volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, Benjamin Lefebvre collects and discusses over two dozen stories from across Montgomery’s career as a short fiction writer, many of them available in book form for the first time. The volume offers a rare glimpse into Montgomery’s creative process in adapting her periodical work for her books, which continue to fascinate readers all over the world.

This collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery reveals the early workings of parts of Anne of Green Gables, its sequels, and her other ever-popular novels.

Reviews

"Twice upon a Time reveals Benjamin Lefebvre’s sleuthing and editing at its best. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of short stories offers a new way of re-experiencing Montgomery’s fiction through the lens of works that often serve dually as prequels and apprenticeship pieces for longer fiction. These stories, alongside Lefebvre’s expert contextualization, help illuminate Montgomery’s methodology and will be a boon for scholars. Twice upon a Time is a treasure trove for all those who appreciate L.M. Montgomery’s genius as a social satirist."
—Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne of Green Gables

"It is no small feat to choose two dozen stories from among the several hundred of Montgomery’s publications in the short story genre. Benjamin Lefebvre’s selections in Twice Upon a Time, along with his notes and critical afterword, are informed by an astute editorial vision that is sure to inspire further productive research into Montgomery’s creative methods."
—Rita Bode, Department of English, Trent University

The book includes the following contents:

A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface
A Note on the Text

Our Uncle Wheeler
A New-Fashioned Flavoring
Miss Marietta’s Jersey
The Old Chest at Wyther Grange
Aunt Ethelinda’s Monument
Aunt Susanna’s Birthday Celebration
The Hurrying of Ludovic
The Little Fellow’s Photograph
The Old South Orchard
The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse
A Garden of Old Delights
A Pioneer Wooing
A Chip of the Old Block
The Indecision of Margaret
Aunt Philippa and the Men
By the Grace of Sarah May
Abel and His Great Adventure
The Schoolmaster’s Bride
Our Neighbors at the Tansy Patch
The Matchmaker
Tomorrow Comes
I Know a Secret
Retribution
An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins
Appendix: Dog Monday’s Vigil

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography

ISBN: 9781487544157


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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in December 2013. A part of "The L.M. Montgomery Library," this book reprints a collection of interviews, essays, forewords, reviews, and other published documents by and about L.M. Montgomery and provides notes and commentary about the documents. In his introduction, Benjamin Lefebvre states that the book "gathers together ninety pieces published from the immediate aftermath of the publication of Anne of Green Gables to a few years after Montgomery’s death. Among the highlights of this volume are a number of essays and letters by Montgomery as well as several interviews with her from across her career."


Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:

Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.

The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The selections give a strong impression of Montgomery as a writer and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of "old ideals." These essays and interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss her work’s literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections in all.

Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.

Reviews

"While Lefebvre’s The L.M. Montgomery Reader is a vital resource of primary sources from and secondary assessments of one of Canada’s most popular twentieth-century authors, it is his insightful and knowledgeable analysis that shapes and gives meaning to the collection. The depth of his knowledge results in a work that is as comprehensible as it is comprehensive."
—Andre Narbonne, American Review of Canadian Studies

"With this volume, Lefebvre broadens our understanding of Montgomery’s reception and reputation both within Canada and internationally, unearthing previously obscure content and commentary and making it accessible to a far wider audience. This reader will thus prove a valuable resource to both existing and future scholars of Montgomery’s work and life, as well as those fans keen for a little more insight into the ever-elusive figure of L.M. Montgomery."
—Sarah Galletly, British Journal of Canadian Studies

The book includes the following contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: A Life in Print by Benjamin Lefebvre
A Note on the Text

1 [Such a Delightful Little Person] (1908)
2 Author Tells How He Wrote His Story (1908)
3 Origin of Popular Book (1908)
4 The Author of Anne of Avonlea (1909)
5 Miss Montgomery, the Author of the “Anne” Books (1909) by A. Wylie Mahon
6 A Trio of Women Writers (1909) by Donald B. Sincair
7 Canadian Writers on Canadian Literature – A Symposium (1910)
8 Says Woman’s Place Is Home (1910)
9 Want to Know How to Write Books? Well Here’s a Real Recipe (1910) by Phoebe Dwight
10 Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston (1910)
11 Four Questions Answered (1910) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
12 Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables (1910)
13 How I Began to Write (1911) by L.M. Montgomery
14 [Seasons in the Woods] (1911) by L.M. Montgomery
15 With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911) by Thomas F. Anderson
16 [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911)
17 A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911)
18 Interviews with Authors (1911) by Anne E. Nias
19 The Old Minister in The Story Girl (1912) by A. Wylie Mahon
20 L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913) by Marjory MacMurchy
21 L.M. Montgomery at Women’s Canadian Club (1913)
22 L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914) by Marjory MacMurchy
23 What Twelve Canadian Women Hope to See as the Outcome of the War (1915)
24 The Way to Make a Book (1915) by L.M. Montgomery
25 How I Began (1915) by L.M. Montgomery
26 [This Hideous War] (1915)
27 What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916)
28 My Favorite Bookshelf (1917) by L.M. Montgomery
29 The Author of Anne (1919) by Ethel M. Chapman
30 The Gay Days of Old (1919) by L.M. Montgomery
31 Introduction to Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920) by Nathan Haskell Dole
32 One Little Girl Who Wrote to L.M. Montgomery and Received a Reply (1920)
33 A Sextette of Canadian Women Writers (1920) by Owen McGillicuddy
34 Blank Verse? “Very Blank,” Said Father (1921) by L.M. Montgomery
35 “I Dwell among My Own People” (1921) by L.M. Montgomery
36 Bits from My Mailbag (1922) by L.M. Montgomery
37 From Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (1923)
38 Novel Writing Notes (1923) by L.M. Montgomery
39 Proud That Canadian Literature Is Clean (1924)
40 Canadian Public Cold to Its Own Literature (1924)
41 Thinks Modern Flapper Will Be Strict Mother (1924)
42 Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences (1924)
43 Something about L.M. Montgomery (1925)
44 L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: A Reader’s Journal (1925) by Altair
45 Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925) by Norma Phillips Muir
46 The Day before Yesterday (1927) by L.M. Montgomery Macdonald
47 Who’s Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927) by V.B. Rhodenizer
48 About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of “Anne” (1927) by Katherine Hale
49 On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927) by Austin Bothwell
50 Minister’s Wife and Authoress (1928) by C.L. Cowan
51 An Autobiographical Sketch (1929) by L.M. Montgomery
52 Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929)
53 L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (1930)
54 The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931) by L.M. Montgomery
55 Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931) by A.V. Brown
56 An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931) by L.M. Montgomery
57 Life Has Been Interesting (1933) by Mrs. L.M. Macdonald (L.M. Montgomery)
58 The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933) by L.M. Montgomery
59 From Courageous Women (1934) by L.M. Montgomery
60 Author to Get No Profit as Green Gables Filmed (1934)
61 Film Preview of Noted Novel Honors Canadian Woman Writer (1934)
62 Is This My Anne (1935) by L.M. Montgomery
63 Foreword to Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936) by L.M. Montgomery
64 Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936) by L.M. Montgomery
65 Memories of Childhood Days (1936) by L.M. Montgomery
66 The Mother of the Anne Series – Lucy M. Montgomery (1937) by Eva-Lis Wuorio, Translated by Vappu Kannas
67 The Book and the Film (1937)
68 For and about Girls (1937) by L.M. Montgomery
69 Prince Edward Island (1939) by L.M. Montgomery, O.B.E.
70 Beloved Writer Addresses Several Aurora Gatherings (1940)
71 Noted Author Dies Suddenly at Home Here (1942)
72 Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942)
73 L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1942)
74 Body of Island’s Beloved Authoress Home for Burial (1942)
75 Island Writer Laid to Rest at Cavendish (1942)
76 The Creator of “Anne” (1942)
77 [L.M. Montgomery’s Last Poem] (1942)
78 L.M. Montgomery / Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen Macdonald (1942)
79 L.M. Montgomery as a Letter-Writer (1942) by E. Weber
80 L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1944) by E. Weber

Epilogue: Anne of Green Gables – The Story of the Photoplay (1920) by Arabella Boone

Sources
Bibliography
Index


ISBN: 9781442644915


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Finding Anne on Prince Edward Island

Finding Anne on Prince Edward Island is a guidebook that features locations that inspired L.M. Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables. The travel guide was published by Ragweed Press as part of their "Island Pathways" series. The book was edited by Kathleen Hamilton and Sibyl Frei. The color photography is by John Sylvester, and the book includes many archival photos from the Prince Edward Island Public Archives.

It's a small spiral bound travel guide. I own a copy of the third printing, which was published in 1998. The guidebook features quotes from L.M. Montgomery's journals and from the Anne of Green Gables novels. The book's introduction states:

"This guidebook is designed for all those who are looking for ANNE and her creator, L.M. Montgomery, and it features the Island locations that you will most want to visit. The chapters are arranged alphabetically by location; each describes a different community on the Island, outlining the places of importance to L.M. Montgomery, and the ANNE attractions to be found there. Entertaining quotations from Anne of Green Gables and the other ANNE books are sprinkled through the chapters."

The contents include the following chapters:

Introduction
Belmont
Bideford
Cavendish
Charlottetown
French River
Hunter River
Kensington
Lower Bedeque
Malpeque
New London
Park Corner
Anne Day Tour
Select Bibliography
Index of Featured Attractions

Each chapter is subdivided into three sections: (1) The Setting, (2) About L.M. Montgomery, and (3) Attractions and Activities. Although so much information is readily available online, I still like to have a guidebook on hand when traveling. I like this one because it is focused on L.M. Montgomery's experiences and perspectives.


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A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921

A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by L.M. Montgomery and edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in January 2019. A part of "The L.M. Montgomery Library," this book reprints a collection 50 poems by L.M. Montgomery that were published over a period of 25 years.


Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century. Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women’s magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short fiction.

A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery’s life and career, claiming her not only as a nature poet but also as the author of a wider range of "songs": of place, of memory, of lamentation, of war, of land and sea, of death, and of love. Many of these poems echo motifs that readers of Montgomery’s novels will recognize, and many more explore surprising perspectives through the use of male speakers. These poems offer today’s readers a new facet of the career of Canada’s most enduringly popular author.

This book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Reviews

"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry."
—Anne Burke, Prairie Journal

"L.M. Montgomery’s verse has considerably more merit than that of many popular versifiers and yet has been unduly neglected, even by Montgomery scholars. A World of Songs expands the current limited horizon of Montgomery’s verse and possesses biographical/historical interest, including insights into publishing verse in the late Romantic period."
—Kevin McCabe, co-editor of The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery

The book includes the following contents:

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface

OVERTURE
The Gable Window

PRELUDE
The Poet’s Thought

SONGS OF PLACE
In Lovers’ Lane
The Fir Lane
In an Old Garden
The Old Home Calls
The Exile
The Summons

SONGS OF MEMORY
Three Days
Companioned
Do You Remember?
Memory Pictures

INTERLUDE
The Singer

SONGS OF LAMENTATION
Irrevocable
I Would Be Well
Night Watches
If I Had Known
The Book
Longing
The Mother

SONGS OF WAR
The Last Prayer
The Three Songs
We Who Wait
Our Women

INTERLUDE
One of the Shepherds

SONGS OF LAND AND SEA
When the Fishing Boats Go Out
When the Fishing Boats Come In
Rain in the Woods
My Pictures
The Wind in the Poplars
The Sea-Shell
Before Storm
A Shore Picture
The Sea to the Shore

SONGS OF DEATH
Too Late
I Have Buried My Dead
Omega
An Old Man’s Grave
The Treasures

SONGS OF LOVE
If Love Should Come
Assurance
The Gray Silk Gown
On the Bridge
Gratitude
With Tears They Buried You To-day
Forever
To One Hated
The Lover’s Catechism

POSTLUDE
The Poet

CODA
What I Would Ask of Life

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index by Title
Index by Date
Index by First Line

ISBN: 9781487505097


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The Bend in the Road CD-ROM

The Bend in the Road: An Invitation to the World and Work of L.M. Montgomery is an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM that was produced in 2000 by the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island.

I purchased the CD-ROM and found it both engaging and content-filled. It is divided into sections on "Life," "Works," "Impact," "Learning," and "Credits," providing a true invitation to L.M. Montgomery's fans. The images and audio clips are extensive. There are galleries of photographs of L.M. Montgomery and photographs taken by her. You can view first edition covers of L.M. Montgomery's novels, explore a genealogy, and watch clips showing her scrapbooks, clothing, needlework and personal belongings.

My favorite portions were the timeline and the video clips of Dr. Elizabeth Epperly viewing L.M. Montgomery's scrapbooks. It was clear to me that a huge amount of time went into the production of the CD-ROM, gearing it towards fans, scholars and educators.

In spite of these attributes, the CD-ROM also has a few downsides. It is designed solely for PC users, and it does not work on Mac computers. Using the CD-ROM was glitchy for me, and it crashed three times as I went through the contents. I tried to go through the CD-ROM in an orderly manner, but sometimes it would jump between sections, so I began using the back button to navigate so I wouldn't miss anything. Another limitation is that the CD-ROM URL links do not work, which hampers its use as an interactive tool.

For those keenly interested in learning more about L.M. Montgomery's life, the CD-ROM is a useful purchase; however, its price of $46.95 (US dollars) might be high for a fan more interested in L.M. Montgomery's books than in her life.


Here is the description of the CD-ROM from The L.M. Montgomery Institute:

The Bend in the Road is a multimedia CD-ROM presentation that invites viewers to discover some of the riches in the life, work, and influence of Canadian hero and internationally acclaimed writer, Lucy Maud Montgomery.

With 342 separate screens, thirty video clips, some one hundred audio clips, over two hundred of Montgomery's own photographs, readings by renowned actor Elizabeth Mawson, introductions to the principal Montgomery sites on Prince Edward Island and in Ontario, glimpses of rare manuscript and archival materials, hot links to related sites, commentary on all of Montgomery's writing, a new bibliography, and questions for discussion and research – The Bend in the Road is designed to appeal to Montgomery scholars and enthusiasts as well as those entirely new to Montgomery's work or life who have an interest in culture, history, or inspiration. The CD-ROM includes a family tree that has photographs and audio clips from some of Montgomery's living relatives. Noted historians, family members, and scholars take viewers on tours through Montgomery's past, the sites that now preserve her memory, and a gallery of Montgomery's own photographs. The Bend in the Road is ideal for individual viewing and also for classroom use; students from elementary grades through graduate school will find ideas and materials to pursue.

ISBN: 9780968729809

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A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917

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.

Reviews

"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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