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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.
List of contents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A Life in Print
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)
A. WYLIE MAHON
6. A Trio of Women Writers (1909)
DONALD B. SINCLAIR
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)
PHOEBE DWIGHT
10. Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston (1910)
11. Four Questions Answered (1910)
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
12. Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of
Anne of Green Gables (1910)
13. How I Began to Write (1911)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
14. [Seasons in the Woods] (1911)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
15. With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911)
THOMAS F. ANDERSON
16. [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911)
17. A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911)
18. Interviews with Authors (1911)
ANNE E. NIAS
19. The Old Minister in
The Story Girl (1912)
A. WYLIE MAHON
20. L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913)
MARJORY MACMURCHY
21. L.M. Montgomery at Women’s Canadian Club (1913)
22. L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914)
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)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
25. How I Began (1915)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
26. [This Hideous War] (1915)
27. What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916)
28. My Favorite Bookshelf (1917)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
29. The Author of Anne (1919)
ETHEL CHAPMAN
30. The Gay Days of Old (1919)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
31. Introduction to
Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920)
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)
OWEN MCGILLICUDDY
34. Blank Verse? “Very Blank,” Said Father (1921)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
35. “I Dwell among My Own People” (1921)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
36. Bits from My Mailbag (1922)
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)
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)
ALTAIR
45. Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925)
NORMA PHILLIPS MUIR
46. The Day before Yesterday (1927)
L.M. MONTGOMERY MACDONALD
47. Who’s Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927)
V.B. RHODENIZER
48. About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of “Anne” (1927)
KATHERINE HALE
49. On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927)
AUSTIN BOTHWELL
50. Minister’s Wife and Authoress (1928)
C.L. COWAN
51. An Autobiographical Sketch (1929)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
52. Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929)
53. L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (1930)
54. The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
55. Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931)
A.V. BROWN
56. An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
57. Life Has Been Interesting (1933)
MRS. L.M. MACDONALD (L.M. MONTGOMERY)
58. The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
5.9 From
Courageous Women (1934)
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)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
63. Foreword to
Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
64. Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
65. Memories of Childhood Days (1936)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
66. The Mother of the Anne Series – Lucy M. Montgomery (1937)
EVA-LIS WUORIO, TRANSLATED BY VAPPU KANNAS
67. The Book and the Film (1937)
68. For and about Girls (1937)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
69. Prince Edward Island (1939)
L.M. MONTGOMERY, OBE
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)
E. WEBER
80. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1944)
E. WEBER
Epilogue:
Anne of Green Gables – The Story of the Photoplay (1920)
ARABELLA BOONE
Sources Bibliography Index
About the author
Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre
Summary
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.
