As part of its marketing campaign for its three upcoming publications for the centennial anniversary of Anne of Green Gables, Penguin Canada has launched a new website, which can be found at http://www.100yearsofanne.com/.
Emily of New Moon does not appear to be on Showcase’s schedule for the next two weeks, but reruns continue to air on VisionTV:
There’s a blurb about the Budge Wilson prequel planned for release next month in yesterday’s Globe and Mail:
Penguin plans Anne prequel for anniversary
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
December 19, 2007 at 4:59 AM EST
Toronto — Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, the classic novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. That yarn is now in the public domain - Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942 - but Canada’s Penguin Group is marking the anniversary next month with a “prequel” it has commissioned in association with the Montgomery estate.
The novel, to be published Jan. 29, is called Before Green Gables and it’s the work of veteran Nova Scotia author Budge Wilson.
Not only that, but Nimbus Publishing is releasing a new abridgment of Anne of Green Gables by Deirdre Kessler, called Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young People. Illustrated by David Preston Smith and scheduled for publication in May 2008, the book is available for pre-order on Amazon.ca. No word yet on whether this is a re-issue of Kessler’s 1983 A Child’s Anne.
Here’s a look at the cover art:
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The new website design has a few bugs left, but I thought it was time to unleash it. Here’s the old design and the new, for archiving purposes. A few pages have moved, but pretty much everything is where it used to be. We’ll be adding some functions in the weeks to come, but in the meantime you can help spread the word about this site by using any of the bookmarking sites that are represented by icons following each post. Have we missed any?
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We are pleased to present for the first time the cover for Irene Gammel’s upcoming book, Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, to be published in March 2008 by Key Porter Books (Canada) and St. Martin’s Press (USA). More information about this book will be posted here closer to the publication date.
Links: Publisher’s listing (Key Porter Books); Irene Gammel’s website.
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A new collection of essays, titled Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict and edited by Jean Mitchell, will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2008. Stay tuned for a release date, but in the meantime here is the table of contents.
List of Images and Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict / Jean Mitchell
Part 1: Narrating Self and Other
L.M. Montgomery: The Darker Side / Margaret Doody
L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother Loss / Rita Bode
L.M. Montgomery and the Conflictedness of a Woman Writer / Carole Gerson
Part 2: A World of Conflict and Private Sorrows
Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory / Andrea McKenzie
“That Abominable War”: The Blythes Are Quoted and Thoughts on L.M. Montgomery’s Late Style / Benjamin Lefebvre
Opposing Pacifism: L.M. Montgomery and the Trouble with Ephraim Weber / Paul Tiessen
Reflections of the Great Depression in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Her Pat Books / Heidi MacDonald
Part 3: Performing Difference(s)
“Tempest in a Teapot”: Domestic Service and Class Conflict in L.M. Montgomery’s Journals and Fiction / E. Holly Pike
Performing Motherhood: L.M. Montgomery’s Display of Maternal Dissonance / Margaret Steffler
Montgomery’s “Imp”: Conflicting Representations of Illness in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle / Kylee-Anne Hingston
The Fresh-Air Controversy, Health, and Art in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Novels / Susan Meyer
Sustainable Dissonance: Becoming-Anne through L.M. Montgomery and Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables / Pamela Rossi-Keen
Love and Controversy for Over Eighty Years: Anne, Emily, and Finnish Women: An Interview / Suvi Ahola and Satu Koskimies
Part 4: Avoiding, Mediating, and Resolving Conflicts
Out the Open Window: Avoidance as Conflict Resolution in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction / Trinna S. Frever
“You d—d idiot!” What L.M. Montgomery’s Silent Heroines Really Want to Say / Sarah Clair Atkinson
The Conflicted Worlds behind the Letters of L.M. Montgomery and Ephraim Weber / Hildi Froese Tiessen
“Even a Successful Lawsuit Will Be a Worry”: Law and Community Relations in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Work / Kate Sutherland
Part V: Troubling, Translations and Dissonant Re-readings
“‘Outrageously Sexual’ Anne”: The Media and Montgomery / Laura Robinson
Conflicting Images: Anne of Green Gables in Germany / Martina Seifert
Hanako Muraoka’s Famous and Truncated Translation of Anne of Green Gables: Some Lingering Questions / Danièle Allard
“Bound for Quebec” or “Journey’s End”? Conflicting Stories about the Montgomery Family’s Arrival in Prince Edward Island / Carolyn Strom Collins
How Green is Green Gables?: An Ecofeminist Perspective on L.M. Montgomery / Nancy Holmes
Epilogue
What Occurs: Storm, Dissonance, and Conflict in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Writing / Jane Ledwell
Contributors
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Sullivan Entertainment has launched a new website for its upcoming miniseries Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning. It can be found at http://www.anneofgreengables.com/.