L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (2016)

L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is a TV movie adaption of L.M. Montgomery's novel that was developed and produced by Breakthrough Entertainment. Starring Ella Ballentine as Anne Shirley, Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert, and Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert, the film tells the story of how a young orphan named Anne Shirley finds her home at Green Gables.

The adaptation was filmed in Canada and directed by John Kent Harrison. The screenplay was written by Susan Coyne. The film had several executive producers: Nat Abraham, Ramon Estevez, Joan Lambur, Ira Levy, Kate Macdonald Butler (L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter), Michael McGuigan, and Peter Williamson. The music for the film was composed by Richard Pell and Lawrence Shragge.

The 90-minute long movie aired on YTV in Canada on February 15, 2016. Subsequently, the film was broadcast and distributed in several counties and regions worldwide, including Germany, Australia, Central Europe, the UK, the United States, and Japan.

The movie is the first in a trilogy and is followed by L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire and Dew.

Here is the film's description:

It’s 1907 on Canada’s beautiful Prince Edward Island, where brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are hoping to adopt a boy to help on their farm, Green Gables. But instead of a boy, the irrepressible and imaginative Anne Shirley arrives by mistake. Will Anne find a way to stay at Green Gables?

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Forty Years of Nippon Animation Exhibition

The Suginami Animation Museum in Tokyo, Japan is holding an exhibition called "Forty Years of Nippon Animation," which features displays on many memorable anime produced by the studio, including Anne of Green Gables (Akage no An). The exhibition opened on January 27, 2016 and will extend through April 17, 2016.

Nippon Animation is the studio responsible for creating the beloved World Masterpiece Theater and Chibi Maruko-chan. In 2015, the studio celebrated its 40th anniversary. The Suginami Animation Museum is celebrating this milestone with an exhibition on the studio's history. The exhibition spotlights the World Masterpiece Theater, the long-running Japanese television anime series based on classic children's stories. These beloved stories included Anne of Green Gables (Akage no An), A Dog of Flanders, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Swiss Family Robinson, Princess Sara (based on A Little Princess), 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, and Rascal the Raccoon.

The exhibition includes a chronology of the World Masterpiece Theater and presentations of clips and episodes from many of the series. Photographs of the real locations in Europe, Canada, and the US where several stories were set are on display. These photographs were used to model the animated settings in the series, including Anne of Green Gables, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Little Princess, and Romeo and the Black Brothers.

The Suginami Animation Museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day (closed on Mondays). The museum is located at 3F Suginami Kaikan, 3-29-5 Kamiogi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167-0043.

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Suginami Animation Museum
"Forty Years of Nippon Animation" Exhibition at Tokyo Art Beat
Japan Journal, Part 4: Animation Museums in Tokyo: Suginami - A review of the exhibit at Brian Camp's Film and Anime Blog

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Google Doodle Celebrates Lucy Maud Montgomery on her 141st Birthday

Today's Google Doodle celebrates L.M. Montgomery's 141st birthday with three animated doodles by Olivia When featuring scenes from Montgomery's beloved story Anne of Green Gables.

In one Google Doodle, Anne Shirley and Diana Barry are laying in a field of field of flowers. Anne is writing, while Diana is reading. The pair are wearing flower crowns in their hair.

In a second Google Doodle, Anne Shirley turns green when she tastes the layered cake she prepared for Mrs. Allen's visit to the Cuthbert home. Anne accidentally flavored her cake with anodyne liniment, thinking it was vanilla. Marilla had poured her liniment into an old vanilla bottle and hadn't relabeled the bottle.



A third Google Doodle pictures show scenes on the Lake of Shining Waters, with Anne walking to school, Anne and Diana running together, and Gilbert Blythe saving Anne after she played Elaine, in the chapter titled, "An Unfortunate Lily Maid."



Google posted the following info about the L.M. Montgomery Google Doodles:

Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote her first novel in 1905. It was rejected by every single publishing house that received it. A few years later, Montgomery tried shopping it again and succeeded. Her story about the adventures of a red-headed girl in Prince Edward Island became a smash hit. That novel ultimately became one of Canada’s most all-time popular books, being translated into around 20 languages and selling more than 50 million copies to date. Anne of Green Gables and its many sequels made Montgomery a wildly successful author and turned PEI into a destination for the book’s thousands of fans.

One of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Montgomery also wrote hundreds of poems and short stories as well as a number of novels apart from the Anne series. She was the first Canadian woman to be made a member of the British Royal Society of Arts and was also appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Today, on what would have been her 141st birthday, we salute Lucy Maud Montgomery with a Doodle that pays tribute to her most iconic book.

Doodler Olivia When, herself an Anne of Green Gables fan, wanted to honor Montgomery by illustrating several scenes from the beloved novel, including a particularly memorable one in which Anne mistakenly bakes a cake with liniment (a medicated oil) instead of vanilla. Here’s to Anne with an “e” Shirley and her revered creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942

L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in October 2015. This volume of scholarship examines L.M. Montgomery's life and work during her decades living in Ontario, Canada. The book was edited by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement. There are contributions by Elizabeth Waterston, Mary Beth Cavert, Margaret Steffler, Laura M. Robinson, Caroline E. Jones, William V. Thompson, Melanie J. Fishbane, Katherine Cameron, Emily Woster, Natalie Forest, E. Holly Pike, Linda Rodenburg, Kate Sutherland, Lesley D. Clement, and Kate Macdonald Butler.

Here is the description of the volume from McGill-Queen’s University Press:

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying Rev. Ewan Macdonald in 1911, she lived in Ontario for three decades. There she became a mother of two sons, fulfilled the duties of a minister's wife, advocated for copyright protection and recognition of Canadian literature, wrote prolifically, and reached a global readership that has never waned.

Engaging with discussions on both her life and her fiction, L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys explores the joys, sorrows, and literature that emerged from her transformative years in Ontario. While this time brought Montgomery much pleasure and acclaim, it was also challenged and complicated by a sense of displacement and the need to self-fashion and self-dramatize as she struggled to align her private self with her public persona. Written by scholars from various fields and including a contribution by Montgomery's granddaughter, this volume covers topics such as war, religion, women's lives, friendships, loss, and grief, focusing on a range of related themes to explore Montgomery's varied states of mind.

An in-depth study of one of Canada's most internationally acclaimed authors, L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys shows how she recreated herself as an Ontario writer and adapted to the rapidly changing world of the twentieth century.

Contributors include Elizabeth Waterston (Guelph), Mary Beth Cavert (Independent), Margaret Steffler (Trent), Laura M. Robinson (Royal Military College), Caroline E. Jones (Austin Community College), William V. Thompson (Grant MacEwan University), Melanie J. Fishbane (Humber College), Katherine Cameron (Concordia University College), Emily Woster (Minnesota-Duluth), Natalie Forest (York), E. Holly Pike (Memorial-Grenfell), Linda Rodenburg (Lakehead-Orillia), Kate Sutherland (York), Lesley D. Clement (Lakehead-Orillia), Kate Macdonald Butler (Heirs of L.M. Montgomery Inc.).

Reviews

“With its interest in placing Montgomery’s work in new cultural and historical contexts, L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys expands our understanding of this canonical Canadian author. Although there is no disputing that PEI had an enduring impact on Montgomery's literary sensibility, Ontario played its part too, as the essays in this collection abundantly reveal.” Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa

“Coherent and well-structured, L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys breaks new ground with its singular focus on the Ontario years. It will unquestionably command the attention of an academic audience, but is also accessible to the general reader who has an interest in Montgomery or in Canadian culture.” Joy Alexander, Queen’s University, Belfast

“L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys is important because it resists Montgomery’s own obsessive returns to Prince Edward Island, as well as those of her readers and critics. The collection remains grounded in her Ontario experience, demonstrating its influence on all the writing she did in the second half of her life.” The Times Literary Supplement

The book includes the following content and essays:

Introduction by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement

Prologue

1. Leaskdale: L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley by Elizabeth Waterston

A New Home in Leaskdale: War and Religion

2. “To the Memory of”: Leaskdale and Loss in the Great War by Mary Beth Cavert
3. “Being a Christian” and a Presbyterian in Leaskdale by Margaret Steffler

The Changing World of Women: Mother, Daughter, Friend

4. “A Gift for Friendship”: Revolutionary Friendship in Anne of the Island and The Blue Castle by Laura M. Robinson
5. The New Mother at Home: Montgomery’s Literary Explorations of Motherhood by Caroline E. Jones

Shadows in Rainbow Valley: Loss and Grief

6. The Shadow on the House of Dreams: Montgomery’s Re-Visioning of Anne by William V. Thompson
7. “My Pen Shall Heal, Not Hurt”: Writing as Therapy in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted by Melanie J. Fishbane

Interlude

L.M.M. by Katherine Cameron

A Sense of Place: Reading and Writing

8. Old Years and Old Books: Montgomery’s Ontario Reading and Self-Fashioning by Emily Woster
9. (Re)Locating Montgomery: Prince Edward Island Romance to Southern Ontario Gothic by Natalie Forest

Travels to Muskoka: Commodification and Tourism

10. Propriety and the Proprietary: The Commodification of Health and Nature in The Blue Castle by E. Holly Pike
11. Bala and The Blue Castle: The “Spirit of Muskoka” and the Tourist Gaze by Linda Rodenburg

Life in Toronto: Professional and Cultural Links

12. Advocating for Authors and Battling Critics in Toronto: Montgomery and the Canadian Authors Association by Kate Sutherland
13. Toronto’s Cultural Scene: Tonic or Toxin for a Sagged Soul? by Lesley D. Clement

Epilogue

14. Dear Grandmother Maud on the Road to Heaven by Kate Macdonald Butler

Appendix

Montgomery’s Ontario Legacies: A Community Presence in the Twenty-First Century by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement with the assistance of Kristina Eldridge and Chloe Verner


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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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Maud of Leaskdale (2011)

Maud of Leaskdale (2011) is a one-woman play by Conrad Boyce about L.M. Montgomery's years living in Leaskdale, Ontario, Canada. Based upon L.M. Montgomery's journals, Maud of Leaskdale is told using Montgomery's own words and is two hours long. Boyce wrote the script by "choosing excerpts from L.M. Montgomery’s journals and shaping the excerpts into a coherent account of her inner and outer life." The play was produced by the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario (LMMSO).

Conrad Boyce wrote Maud of Leaskdale with a specific actress in mind to play the title role of Maud—Jennifer Carroll. Happily, Carroll agreed to play the role of Lucy Maud Montgomery. In October 2011, Maud of Leaskdale premiered at the LMMSO International Conference. In the summer of 2012, Carroll performed the play at the Historic Leaskdale Church, where Ewan Macdonald, L.M. Montgomery’s husband, was minister from 1910 to 1926. In 2014, Jennifer Carroll presented the show at the biennial conference held by the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island. Carroll has continued to portray Maud for more than a decade in Leaskdale where the production has been celebrated.

The play is described as follows:

“Experience the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery during her first 15 years in Ontario (1911-1926), when she became a devoted mother, a world-famous author, and the loyal wife of a Presbyterian Minister. It was a time of simple joys and heart-rending tragedy, brought to life through Montgomery’s own powerful words. Compiled and directed by Conrad Boyce.”

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Maud of Leaskdale poster advertising the play from 2024 from DiscoverUxbridge.ca.

References:
Maud of Leaskdale starring Jennifer Carroll. 2024. Discover Uxbridge. Retrieved from: https://discoveruxbridge.ca/events/event/maud-of-leaskdale-starring-jennifer-carroll/.

MacDonald, Shane. (2016, August 17). Uxbridge’s Jennifer Carroll brings Lucy Maud Montgomery to life in Maud of Leaskdale play. DurhamRegion.com. Retrieved from: https://www.durhamregion.com/things-to-do/uxbridge-s-jennifer-carroll-brings-lucy-maud-montgomery-to-life-in-maud-of-leaskdale-play/article_119e01f2-925c-5f8d-ae21-472b41deff89.html

Pratt, Barb. (2021, August 5). Maud of Leaskdale – Ten Years! The Standard. Retrieved from: https://www.thestandardnewspaper.ca/post/maud-of-leaskdale-ten-years


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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in May 2014. This book republishes a collection of 20 articles and essays that were published in scholarly journals, magazines, and books about L.M. Montgomery's writings and literary reputation since her death. In his introduction, Benjamin Lefebvre states that the book "extends this major reassessment of Montgomery’s critical reputation from the years since her death to the present day. It does so, first, by discussing the major trends, shifts, and turning points in her reception by academic critics and popular readers, and second, by including a selection of twenty items from the interdisciplinary field of L.M. Montgomery Studies from 1966 to 2012."


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 second volume, A Critical Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s critical reputation in the years since her death. It traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. The introduction also considers Montgomery’s publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers.

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

"Benjamin Lefebvre is a key figure in the field of 'Montgomery studies,' with a keen eye to the 'pop-cult' aspects of Montgomery's reputation and readership. His encyclopaedic knowledge of Montgomery and her works is evident in the knowledgeable and readable introduction, the annotations, and the useful headnotes that contextualize each selection."
—Heather Murray, Department of English, University of Toronto

"The L.M. Montgomery Reader, volume 2, presents a generous selection of material, judiciously chosen and clearly organized. The essays included cover an excellent range of primary texts, critical approaches, and eras."
—Faye Hammill, Professor of English, University of Strathclyde

The book includes the following contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: A Critical Heritage
BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

A Note on the Text

1 Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966)
ELIZABETH WATERSTON

2 The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973)
HELEN PORTER

3 Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983)
T.D. MACLULICH

4 Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989)
ROSAMOND BAILEY

5 Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992)
MARY RUBIO

6 Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993)
DIANE TYE

7 L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994)
OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS

8 Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994)
HELEN M. BUSS

9 “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995)
CAROLE GERSON

10 “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995)
LAURA M. ROBINSON

11 Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995)
REA WILMSHURST

12 L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995)
ELIZABETH EPPERLY

13 “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999)
IRENE GAMMEL

14 Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000)
CECILY DEVEREUX

15 Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002)
MONIQUE DULL

16 The Maud Squad (2002)
CYNTHIA BROUSE

17 “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004)
JENNIFER H. LITSTER

18 Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008)
ANDREA MCKENZIE

19 Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008)
EMILY AOIFE SOMERS

20 Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012)
VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE


ISBN: 9781442644922


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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

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