The January-February 2008 issue of Quill & Quire contains an article by Megan Grittani-Livingston titled “Anne is in the air: Penguin ramps up major new Green Gables campaign.” It also includes a very favourable review of Budge Wilson’s Before Green Gables by Sarah Ellis, titled “Channelling L.M.”
New & Noteworthy
L.M. Montgomery (2009)
By Jane Urquhart
New material about the private life of Lucy Maud Montgomery has prompted a searching look at the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables. While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and close community bonds overcame all tribulations, Montgomery’s real life was marked by grief and loneliness. Married to a clergyman who suffered from a debilitating mental illness, Montgomery struggled to keep up appearances in a Victorian society that valued propriety at all costs. Read more....Archives
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