L.M. Montgomery Research Group

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery (2008)

By Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008

Synopsis

Celebrated author Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid keeper of journals and scrapbooks, collecting mementoes that together form a portrait of a fascinating Canadian life more than one hundred years ago. Her Island scrapbooks, from the years 1893 to 1910, provide a revealing look into her world and her inspiration during the period when she created the beloved character of Anne Shirley, while living in Atlantic Canada as a college student, teacher, and writer. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery scholar Elizabeth Rollins Epperly has selected and annotated more than one hundred pages of these scrapbooks to produce a beautiful gift book for Montgomery readers, history buffs, and scrapbook enthusiasts.

Air Castles / L.M. Montgomery (n.pag.)

Timeline of Important Dates for L.M. Montgomery (n.pag.)

Foreword / Adrienne Clarkson (n.pag.)

L.M. Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables (1-2)

The Island Scrapbooks (3-4)

Editing the Scrapbooks (5-8)

The Blue Scrapbook, 1893 to 1897 (9-90)

The Red Scrapbook, 1890s to mid-1910 (91-167)

Afterword / Francis W.P. Bolger (168)

Selected References (169)

Acknowledgments (170)

Reviews

Lawrence, Susan. Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Quill & Quire, April 2008, 38.

Lefebvre, Benjamin. “Eternally Anne.” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson; Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. The Globe and Mail, 22 March 2008, D1, D9. Online: http://roomofbensown.net/publications/eternally-anne/.