Name for Herself - Selected Writings, 1891-1917

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.

List of 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

About the author

By L.M. Montgomery
Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Lefebvre, Benjamin (University of Winnipeg Lefebvre, L M Montgomery, L. M. Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery
• Assisted by: Benjamin Lefebvre (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781487523084
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2308-4
• No. of pages: 454
• Series: The L.M. Montgomery Library; The L.M. Montgomery Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories