Book title: L.M. Montgomery: A Popular Canadian Writer for Children

Publisher: Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft

Date: 1991

Type: Book-length study

Book title: L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926–1935

Publisher: Wordbird Press

Date: 2006

Type: Book-length study

Book title: A Writer’s Garden: Inspired Photographs with Selected Writings by L.M. Montgomery

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Date: 2004

Type: Book-length study

Book title: A Collector’s Guide to L.M. Montgomery Firsts

Publisher: N.p.

Date: 2009

Type: Book-length study

Synopsis

Readers and collectors have treasured L.M. Montgomery’s books for over a hundred years. Yet much uncertainty still remains in the identification of her first editions, particularly those from McClelland & Stewart.

After two decades of research in bookstores and libraries across Canada Frank and Juanita Lechowick have finally solved this puzzle.

This field guide presents the Lechowicks’ findings by pinpointing the distinctive features of the very first US and Canadian editions, both in words and in pictures.

Thus this guide does for Montgomery collectors what Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds does for birders. It enables them to compare the points of any of her books they come across with those of the original publications in order to determine whether it is an actual Canadian or US first edition.

A Collector’s Guide to L.M. Montgomery Firsts also tells the story of how one couple got an education in “old books.” It is sure to appeal both to book collectors and to the many fans of Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Contents

Illustrations (n.pag.)

Foreword (n.pag.)

The Quest (1–19)

How to Use this Guide (21)

1908–1920: The First US Editions: L.C. Page & Co. (23)

Anne of Green Gables (25–9)

Anne of Avonlea (31–3)

Kilmeny of the Orchard (35–7)

The Story Girl (39–41)

Chronicles of Avonlea (43–5)

The Golden Road (47–9)

Anne of the Island (51–3)

Further Chronicles of Avonlea (55–7)

1916–1929: The First US Editions: Frederick A. Stokes Co.; The First Canadian Editions: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd. (59–60)

The Watchman (62–5)

Anne’s House of Dreams (66–9)

Rainbow Valley (70–3)

Rilla of Ingleside (74–7)

Emily of New Moon (78–81)

Emily Climbs (82–5)

The Blue Castle (86–9)

Emily’s Quest (90–3)

Magic for Marigold (94–7)

1931–1939: The First US Editions: F.A. Stokes Co.; The First Canadian Editions: M&S, Ltd. (99)

A Tangled Web (100–3)

Pat of Silver Bush (104–7)

Courageous Women (109–11)

Mistress Pat (112–15)

Anne of Windy Poplars (116–19)

Jane of Lantern Hill (120–3)

Anne of Ingleside (124–7)

1942–1953: The First Canadian Editions: The Ryerson Press (129)

Anne of Green Gables (130)

Anne of Avonlea (130)

Anne of the Island (131)

Chronicles of Avonlea (131)

Kilmeny of the Orchard (132)

The Story Girl (132)

The Golden Road (133)

Further Chronicles of Avonlea (133)

Evidence for M&S Firsts (135–44)

Principal References (145)

Other References (146)

Glossary (147–8)

Acknowledgments (149–50)

How to Order this Book (151)

Title Index (153)

Book title: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Bala: A Love Story of the North Woods

Publisher: Bala’s Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Date: 1998

Type: Book-length study

Book title: Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

Publisher: Key Porter Books

Date: 2008

Type: Book-length study

Subsequent edition: Paperback edition, 2010

Synopsis

By any standard, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is a stunning success. The novel about a plucky redhead from Prince Edward Island has been in print for one hundred years, sold more than 50 million copies, been translated into more than 35 languages (including Braille), and become the focus of international academic attention.

But why Anne? How did this little book create such enduring interest? The answer, though more intriguing than even Anne could have imagined, is strangely elusive. In her journal, Maud’s quick pen would froth up the tiniest details of her life into dramatic events, but that same pen revealed barely a word about its most famous creation—at least not until many years later. As a result, the novel’s secrets have remained sealed for over a century.

Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic is the untold story of both Anne and her creator. Irene Gammel delves into the life of a writer who found inspiration everywhere she looked—from fashion magazines and American mass market periodicals to the quiet landways and babbling brooks of her own community. In her early writing, Maud consciously imitated the formula fiction of the day to create marketable stories for juvenile periodicals, religious newspapers, and glamorous women’s magazines. But unlike so many writers of her era, Maud was willing to push beyond these boundaries. Ultimately, in the storm that brewed up the novel, she transcended these influences to create a twentieth-century literary classic that would conquer the world.

Blending biography with cultural history, penetrating and uncensored, Looking for Anne captures both the spirit of Marilla’s critical probing for “bald facts” and Anne’s belief in the infinite power of the imagination. It is a must-read for anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Anne with an “e.”

Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008 (Paperback edition, 2009)

In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than thirty-five languages (including Braille). The author who created her was Lucy Maud Montgomery, a writer who revealed very little of herself and her method of crafting a story. On the centenary of its publication, Irene Gammel tells the braided story of both Anne and Maud and, in so doing, shows how a literary classic was born.

Montgomery’s own life began in the rural Cavendish family farmhouse on Prince Edward Island, the place that became the inspiration for Green Gables. Mailmen brought the world to the farmhouse’s kitchen door in the form of American mass market periodicals, sparking the young Maud’s imagination. From the vantage point of her small world, Montgomery pored over these magazines, gleaning bits of information about how to dress, how to behave, and how a proper young lady should grow. She began to write, learning how to craft marketable stories from the magazines’ popular fiction; at the same time the fashion photos inspired her visual imagination. One photo that especially intrigued her was that of a young woman named Evelyn Nesbit, the model for painters and photographers and lover of Stanford White. That photo was the spark for what became Anne Shirley.

Blending biography with cultural history, Looking for Anne of Green Gables is a gold mine for fans of the novel and answers a trunk load of questions: Where did Anne get the “e” at the end of her name? How did Montgomery decide to give her red hair? How did Montgomery’s courtship and marriage to Reverend Ewan Macdonald affect the story? Irene Gammel’s dual biography of Anne Shirley and the woman who created her will delight the millions who have loved the red-haired orphan ever since she took her first step inside the gate at Green Gables farm in Avonlea.

Contents

Prologue: The Mystery of Anne of Green Gables (13–16)

Part 1: The Perfect Storm, Fall 1903–Spring 1905

One: Old Memories and New Ambitions (19–30)

Two: The Model for Anne’s Face (31–9)

Three: Building Castles in Spain (40–57)

Four: The Orphan Girl and the Snow Queen (58–73)

Part 2: Writing Anne, Spring 1905–Winter 1907

Five: Romantic Orchards, Kindred Spirits, and a Spring Flirtation (77–88)

Six: Maud’s Bosom Friends (89–99)

Seven: Pagan Love and Sacred Promises: Anne and Diana (100–10)

Eight: Good Enemies and Old Love Letters (111–23)

Nine: Wicked Satire in Small-Town Avonlea (124–36)

Ten: This Old Place Has a Soul, Green Gables (137–68)

Eleven: Red Hair, Puffed Sleeves, and the Rituals of Growing Up (169–84)

Twelve: Farewells and Decisions (185–206)

Thirteen: The Mystery of Anne Revealed (207–19)

Part 3: Anne Takes Off, Spring 1907–Fall 1938

Fourteen: The Most Popular Summer Girl (223–40)

Fifteen: The Vows Kept for Life (241–57)

Epilogue: Dramatis Personae (258–62)

Abbreviations (263–4)

Endnotes (265–92)

Selected Bibliography (293–05)

Acknowledgments (306–7)

Index (308–12)

Reviews

Dusmann, Cori. Review of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. Quill & Quire, April 2008, 38–9.

Fiamengo, Janice. “More About Anne.” Review of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 149–50.

Gerson, Carole. “Anne’s Anniversary.” Review of Anne of Green Gables, edited by Cecily Devereux; Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel; Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, adapted by Deirdre Kessler; Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (New Canadian Library); Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (Penguin); Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston; Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson (G.P. Putnam); Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson (Penguin). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 98–111.

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. [Full entry]

Schiefer, Nancy. “Scholarly, sweet work peels the Anne onion.” Review of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. The London Free Press [London, Ont.], 10 May 2008, C8.

Wilker, Carolyn. “Anne at 100.” Review of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. Daily Mercury [Guelph, Ont.], 19 April 2008, C5. Also in Waterloo Region Record [Kitchener, Ont.], 19 April 2008, W10.

Winston, Iris. “Canlit.” Review of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel. National Post, 12 April 2008, WP17.

Related Items

Gammel, Irene. “Irene Gammel on Looking for Anne.” The Beaver: Canada’s History Magazine, April-May 2008, 14-15.

Related Websites

Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre Website for Looking for Anne

Key Porter Website for Looking for Anne

Publisher Listing: Key Porter Books

Publisher Listing: St. Martin’s Press

Book title: Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Date: 2008

Type: Book-length study

ISBN: 9780670066872

URL: http://penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670066872,00.html; http://www.100yearsofanne.com/gables-books-imagining.htm

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.

Contents

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. [Full entry]

Pike, E. Holly. “Who Do We Think You Are?” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery, edited by Irene Gammel; Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Elizabeth MacLeod; After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916–1941, edited by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen; The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume V: 1935–1942, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 112–23. [Full entry]

Somers, Sean. “Imagination Generated Imagery.” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; 100 Years of Anne with an ‘e’: The Centennial Study of “Anne of Green Gables,” edited by Holly Blackford. Canadian Literature, forthcoming. [Full entry]

Book title: Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Date: 2007

Type: Book-length study

ISBN: 978-0-8020-3878-4 (cloth), 978-0-8020-9460-5 (paper)

URL: http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8759&step=4

Synopsis

It might surprise some to know that internationally beloved Canadian writer L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942), author of the Anne of Green Gables series, among other novels, and hundreds of short stories and poems, also held a passion for photography. For forty years, Montgomery photographed her favourite places and people, using many of these photographs to illustrate the hand-written journals she left as a record of her life. Artistically inclined, and possessing a strong visual memory, Montgomery created scenes and settings in her fiction that are closely linked to the carefully composed shapes in her photographs.

Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s Through Lover’s Lane is the first book to examine Montgomery’s photography in any depth; it is also the first study to connect it with her fiction and other writing. Drawing on the work of Montgomery scholars, as well as theorists such as Susan Sontag, Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes, John Berger, and George Lakoff, Epperly connects Montgomery’s practice of photography with the writer’s metaphors for home and belonging. Epperly examines thirty-five of the photographs, uncovering their role in the novelist’s life and fiction. She argues that the shapes in Montgomery’s favourite place in nature—Lover’s Lane in Cavendish, P.E.I.—affected her other photographs, underpinned her colourful descriptions, and grounded her aesthetics. Through Lover’s Lane demonstrates how an artist creates metaphors that resonate within a single work, echo across a lifetime of writing and photography, and inspire readers and viewers across cultures and time.

Contents

Acknowledgments (ix–xi)

Permissions (xiii)

Abbreviations (xv)

Introduction: Seeing Patterns (3–10)

1. Montgomery’s Visual Imagination (11–38)

2. Montgomery’s Photography (39–62)

3. Picturing a Life: Selected Photographs (63–85)

4. Picturing Home: Image as Threshold (86–102)

5. Anne’s Green Arches (103–24)

6. Emily’s “Memory Pictures” (125–44)

7. “My Castle in Spain: The Blue Castle and the Architecture of Images (145–64)

8. Afterimage: Around the “Bend in the Road” (165–78)

Appendix: “Cynthia’s” 1902 Article on Photography (179–82)

Notes (183–91)

Works Cited (193–201)

Illustration Credits (203)

Index (205–17)

Reviews

Pike, E. Holly. “Who Do We Think You Are?” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery, edited by Irene Gammel; Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Elizabeth MacLeod; After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916–1941, edited by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen; The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume V: 1935–1942, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 112–23. [Full entry]

Raible, Chris and Pat. Review of Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. OHS Bulletin: The Newsletter of the Ontario Historical Society 164 (April 2008): 7.

Thomas, Christa Zeller. “Seeing and Being.” Review of Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 145–6.

Book title: The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Date: 1992

Type: Book-length study

Subsequent edition: Paperback edition, 1993

Synopsis

Anne Shirley is the best known of a memorable group of heroines created by Lucy Maud Montgomery, a group that includes Emily Byrd Starr, Valancy Stirling, and Pat Gardiner. These characters are at the centre of Epperly’s book, the first full-length critical study of all L.M. Montgomery’s fiction.

Epperly contends that Montgomery was a master of the romance genre, and through her use of literary allusions, repetitions, irony, and comic inversions she deftly manipulated the normal conventions of romance novels. By studying the fictional biographies of the heroines and their pursuit of romance, Epperly questions the ways romance shapes what we consider valuable in our imaginings and experience.

A book written for L.M. Montgomery fans and scholars.

Contents

Acknowledgments (ix)

Abbreviations (x)

Introduction (3–14)

Part I: Anne

Romancing the Voice: Anne of Green Gables (17–38)

Romance Awry: Anne of Avonlea (39–55)

Recognition: Anne of the Island (56–74)

“This Enchanted Shore”: Anne’s House of Dreams (75–94)

Heroism’s Childhood: Rainbow Valley (95–111)

Womanhood and War: Rilla of Ingleside (112–30)

Recapturing the Anne World: Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside (131–42)

Part II: Emily (143–8)

The Struggle for Voice: Emily of New Moon (149–67)

Testing the Voice: Emily Climbs (168–81)

Love and Career: Emily’s Quest (182–207)

Part III: The Other Heroines

Romancing the Home: Pat of Silver Bush, Mistress Pat, Jane of Lantern Hill (211–27)

A Changing Heroism: An Overview of the Other Novels (228–48)

Epilogue (249–50)

Notes (251–60)

Works Cited (261–6)

Index (267–75)

Reviews

Arsenault, Lisa. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. In Canadian Book Review Annual 1992, edited by Joyce M. Wilson, 263. Toronto: CBRA, 1993.

Duffy, Dennis. “The Tenuous Talents of Our Hometown Hero.” Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Compass: A Jesuit Journal, September–October 1992, 40–2.

Grauer, Lalage. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. University of Toronto Quarterly 64, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 202–3.

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. “Lucy & John.” Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; The Borders of Nightmare: The Fiction of John Richardson, by Michael Hurley. Canadian Literature 138–139 (Autumn–Winter 1993): 153–5.

Rubio, Jennie. “The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: New Readings of L.M. Montgomery.” Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Essays on Canadian Writing 55 (Spring 1995): 161–8.

Scotto, Barbara. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Wilson Library Bulletin, October 1992, 100–1.

Wiggins, Genevieve. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. The American Review of Canadian Studies 23, no. 3 (Autumn 1993): 460–2.

Book title: Theosophic Thoughts Concerning L.M. Montgomery

Publisher: DuVernet

Date: 1988

Type: Book-length study