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Press release: Lefebvre renewed as UPEI’s L.M. Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar

Posted on 1 July 2010 by Benjamin Lefebvre

The following press release appeared on 24 June 2010: Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre, of Waterloo, Ontario and one of the world’s leading experts on Lucy Maud Montgomery, was reappointed as Visiting Scholar for the institute bearing the famed PEI writer’s name, … Continue reading →

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Penguin Canada: Recent foreign deals

Posted on 18 January 2010 by Benjamin Lefebvre

A recent “Industry News” column by Zoe Whittall appeared recently on the Quill & Quire website: Penguin Canada has a number of foreign deals to report: … Hindi rights to the 100th Anniversary Edition of Anne of Green Gables by … Continue reading →

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The Blythes Are Quoted on CBC’s “Year in Books”

Posted on 28 December 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

The publication of The Blythes Are Quoted has been selected as one of the “10 biggest publishing stories of 2009″ on a CBC.ca news story: Fans of the precocious, freckle-faced redhead from P.E.I. had reason to rejoice this year when … Continue reading →

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Follow-up: First-edition Anne

Posted on 12 December 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

To follow up on my earlier article “First-edition Anne Expected to Set Auction Record“: James Adams reports in today’s Globe and Mail that this copy sold at auction for $37,500: A first-edition copy of the Canadian classic Anne of Green … Continue reading →

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Exporting PEI Beef to Japan

Posted on 12 December 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

An article titled “A new job for Anne of Green Gables: selling beef to Japan” appeared in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail: Enterprising farmers on Prince Edward Island are hoping to crack Japan’s stiffly competitive Wagyu beef market by using the … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Vanessa Brown!

Posted on 8 July 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

Congratulations to Vanessa Brown of London, Ontario, who won the second prize in Canada’s First National Book Collecting Contest for best book collectors under the age of thirty, sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC), the Antiquarian Booksellers of … Continue reading →

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Allan King (1930-2009)

Posted on 16 June 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

World-renowned filmmaker Allan King, whose extensive filmography includes thirteen episodes of Road to Avonlea (1990-1996), died yesterday in Toronto at the age of 79. More details can be found on his obituary at the Globe and Mail. See also Lee … Continue reading →

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Mollie Gillen, 1908-2009

Posted on 8 January 2009 by Benjamin Lefebvre

The following article by Sandra Martin appears in today’s Globe and Mail, concerning Mollie Gillen, author of The Wheel of Things: The Life of L.M. Montgomery, who died in Toronto on 3 January 2009, at the age of 100: Mollie … Continue reading →

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A note found on Montgomery’s deathbed

Posted on 24 September 2008 by Benjamin Lefebvre

An article on the front page of this morning’s Globe and Mail-“Is this Lucy Maud’s suicide note?”-reproduces the following scrap of paper found on Montgomery’s bedside the afternoon she died: This copy is unfinished and never will be. It is … Continue reading →

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Globe and Mail: “The Heartbreaking Truth”

Posted on 20 September 2008 by Benjamin Lefebvre

An article titled “The Heartbreaking Truth about Anne’s Creator,” written by Kate Macdonald Butler (Montgomery’s granddaughter), appears in today’s Globe and Mail (pp. F1, F6): Despite her great success, it is known that she suffered from depression, that she was … Continue reading →

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