L.M. Montgomery Research Group

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/.

Following its acquisition of the entire Sullivan/Montgomery catalog, CTV will be rebroadcasting An Avonlea Christmas, which first appeared in 1998 as Happy Christmas Miss King, on Sunday, December 16. This two-hour telefilm depicts the events of the King family two-and-a-half years after the final episode of Road to Avonlea. Read more about it on CTV’s website.

McClelland & Stewart has released artwork for its reissue of the New Canadian Library edition of Emily of New Moon, due out on 4 December 2007!

This edition will precede the NCL reissue of Anne of Green Gables, due out in late January 2008.

The following items have been added to the LMMRG bibliography:

Beharriel, S. Ross. Review of The Green Gables Letters: From L. M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905-1909, ed. Wilfrid Eggleston. Canadian Forum 40.476 (September 1960): 142.

Gillis, Stacy. Review of Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, ed. Irene Gammel. British Journal of Canadian Studies 16.2 (2003): 425-26.

Hazel, Kathryn-Jane. Review of The Ecstasy of Resistance: A Biography of George Ryga, by James Hoffman; Writing a Life: L. M. Montgomery, by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston; Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence, ed. Christyl Verduyn. British Journal of Canadian Studies 12.1 (1997): 151-52.

Holland, Clifford G. Review of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume 1: 1889-1910, ed. Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston. Queen’s Quarterly 93.3 (Autumn 1986): 667-68.

Lovell-Smith, Rose. “Ending Only to Begin Again: The Child Reader and One Hundred Years of Sequel and Series Writing.” Children’s Literature and the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Roderick McGillis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 31-39.

Neutze, Christine Dorothy. Colonial Children: The Fictional Worlds of L. M. Montgomery, Isabel Maud Peacocke and Ethel Turner. Ph.D. diss. U of Auckland, 1981.

Smith, Karen. Review of Lucy-Maud [sic] Montgomery: A Preliminary Bibliography, compiled by Ruth Weber Russell, D. W. Russell, and Rea Wilmshurst. Dalhousie Review 67.1 (Spring 1987): 143-45.

Stott, Jon C. “L.M. Montgomery 1874-1942.” Writers for Children: Critical Studies of Major Authors Since the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Jane M. Bingham. New York: Scribners, 1988. 415-22.

Sumiko, Yokokawa. “The Forty Years of Anne of Green Gables in Japan.” TALL 5.4 (Mar.-Apr. 1996): 37-43.

Thaler, Danielle. “The Novel for Adolescents in Quebec: Stereotypes and New Conventions.” Reflections of Change: Children’s Literature Since 1945. Ed. Sandra Beckett. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 131-40.

Tiessen, Paul. Review of Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L. M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” ed. Mavis Reimer. English Studies in Canada 21.3 (September 1995): 357-59.

Watters, R. E. “Letters from Avonlea.” Review of The Green Gables Letters: From L. M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, ed. Wilfrid Eggleston. Canadian Literature 5 (Summer 1960): 87-88.

Whitaker, Muriel. “Literary Pen-Pals.” Review of My Dear Mr. M.: Letters to G. B. MacMillan from L. M. Montgomery, ed. Francis W. P. Bolger and Elizabeth R. Epperly. Canadian Literature 90 (Autumn 1981): 141-43.

—. “Women Alone.” Review of The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, edited by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe; Proper Deafinitions: Collected Theograms, by Betsy Warland; People You’d Trust Your Life To, by Bronwen Wallace. Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 228-30.

Whitfield, Caroline. Review of Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, ed. Irene Gammel. Dalhousie Review 84.1 (Spring 2004): 179-80.

The latest issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (31.3, September 2007) is now available through ProjectMuse to subscribing libraries. The issue includes Kate Lawson’s new article, “The Victorian Sickroom in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle and Emily’s Quest: Sentimental Fiction and the Selling of Dreams” (232-249).

Yuka alerted us to the following article about an exhibit at the ROM in Toronto that features the manuscript of Anne of Green Gables.