Two reviews appear in today’s Globe and Mail: Aritha van Herk’s “Blythe Spirits,” a review of The Blythes Are Quoted, and Irene Gammel’s “The Daughters of Lucy Maud,” a review of Jane Urquhart’s L.M. Montgomery.
Irene Gammel’s review of Mary Henley Rubio’s Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings, titled “The fatal disappointments of Lucy Maud,” appears in today’s Globe and Mail, p. D4.
My review of three new Anne books—Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson; and Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel—appears in today’s The Globe and Mail on pages D1 and D9 of the Books section. It can be found online here.
UPDATE: The review is no longer freely available on the Globe and Mail website, but the full text of the review can be found here.
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.”
Beth C. forwarded this review to me, and so thought it would be of interest.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/03_29_07.html
For a complete list of theatrical adaptations of L.M. Montgomery’s work, see the theatre section of An L.M. Montgomery Resource Page.