Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables.

She was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island. She went to Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, in order to get a license as a teacher on P.E.I. Then, in 1895–96 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There she – from the age of seventeen – worked for the newspapers Chronicle and Echo. She moved back to Prince Edward Island, after a time when she lived in Alberta with her father. First she worked as a teacher in island schools, the she moved back to Cavendish and lived with her grandmother. On Prince Edward Island she got the inspiration to write her first books. In 1911, after she married the Rev. Ewen Macdonald, they moved to Leaskdale, Ontario, where she wrote the next 11 books, before the family (now with two children) moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Her major collections are archived at the University of Guelph, while the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island coordinates most of the research and conferences surrounding her work. Volume 5 of her journals has recently been published by Oxford University Press, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston.

Novels

• 1908 – Anne of Green Gables
• 1909 – Anne of Avonlea
• 1910 – Kilmeny of the Orchard
• 1911 – The Story Girl
• 1913 – The Golden Road
• 1915 – Anne of the Island
• 1917 – Anne's House of Dreams
• 1919 – Rainbow Valley
• 1920 – Rilla of Ingleside
• 1923 – Emily of New Moon
• 1925 – Emily Climbs
• 1926 – The Blue Castle
• 1927 – Emily's Quest
• 1929 – Magic for Marigold
• 1931 – A Tangled Web
• 1933 – Pat of Silver Bush
• 1935 – Mistress Pat
• 1936 – Anne of Windy Poplars
• 1937 – Jane of Lantern Hill
• 1939 – Anne of Ingleside

Short stories collections

• 1912 – Chronicles of Avonlea
• 1920 – Further Chronicles of Avonlea
• 1934 – Courageous Women (with others)
• 1974 – The Road to Yesterday
• 1979 – The Doctor's Sweetheart
• 1988 – Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans
• 1989 – Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
• 1990 – Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side
• 1991 – After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed
• 1993 – Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement
• 1994 – At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales
• 1995 – Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence
• 1995 – Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories

Poetry

• 1916 – The Watchman & Other Poems

External links

• Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's works
• Picturing A Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute
• An L.M. Montgomery Resource Page is an excellent collection.
• Little More Montgomery has information on the author's life in Ontario
• Anne in Japan FAQ 1.0 provides basic information as to Montgomery's popularity in Japan.
• Representative Poetry Online
• Famous Canadians
• AnneShirley.net a weblog keeping track of Anne of Green Gables-related news