L.M. Montgomery Research Group

Jason reminded me of these two YouTube videos that he noticed some time ago. Since they speak for themselves, I won’t speak for them.

Monika Hilder’s paper “Imagining the Ultimate Kindred Spirit: The Feminist Theological Vision of L.M. Montgomery” will appear in Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent: Canadian Perspectives on Contextual Feminist Theology, edited by Mary Ann Beavis, with Elaine Guillemin and Barbara Pell and forthcoming from Novalis Press in Fall 2007.

McClelland and Stewart will reissue its New Canadian Library edition of Anne of Green Gables early in 2008. This edition, first published in 1992, includes an afterword by Margaret Atwood. Here are the covers for both the current edition and the new one. Their NCL edition of Emily of New Moon (with an afterword by Alice Munro, first published in 1989) will likewise be reissued, in late 2007, but the new cover is not yet available.

From CBC News:

The site of the Rainbow Valley amusement park, now a new entrance to P.E.I. National Park, reopens Friday at 10 a.m.

The property is now called Cavendish Grove and will include walking and cycling trails as well as access to Cavendish Beach.

Barb MacDonald of Parks Canada told CBC News that while the amusement park rides are gone from the land, the feeling in the park is still the same.

“The highlight of the property is still there,” said MacDonald.

“The trees are beautiful and very prominent. It will be a wonderful place for people to relax and maybe have a picnic and just enjoy the natural beauty.”

The 16-hectare amusement park was sold to Parks Canada two years ago.

Last summer, some tourism operators in the area complained it was taking Parks Canada too long to reopen the site.

Eventually, Parks Canada intends to make Cavendish Grove the main entrance to this section of the national park, meaning a longer walk to Cavendish Beach.

Thanks to Beth C. for bringing this news to our attention.

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Howey, Ann F. “Reading Elaine: Marjorie Richardson’s and L. M. Montgomery’s Red-Haired Lily Maids.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 32.2 (Summer 2007): 86-109.

The full text of this journal article is available through ProjectMuse to subscribing libraries. The bibliography has been updated accordingly.

The L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island has completely revamped its website!

(It looks great, by the way.)

Finally, it looks like Cavendish is broadening its range of tourist attractions, although probably not in ways that Montgomery would have predicted.  Click here to find out what I’m talking about.

Fitzhenry & Whiteside will publish The Anne of Green Gables Puzzle Book! Written by Marion Hoffman and illustrated by Muriel Wood, the book will be published in August 2007. For more information, click here.