Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, in 1874. A prolific writer, she published twenty novels and over a thousand short stories, essays, and poems, but she is best known for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. To this list we can now add The Blythes Are Quoted. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942 shortly after she completed The Blythes Are Quoted and is buried in her beloved Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
Benjamin Lefebvre, Ph.D., lives in Waterloo, Ontario. He is director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group and has published widely on Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. He has recently collaborated with Andrea McKenzie to edit a restored and unabridged edition of Montgomery’s novel Rilla of Ingleside, now available from Viking Canada.
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, Ph.D., is professor emerita of English at the University of Prince Edward Island and the founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. An internationally recognized scholar, she is the author of numerous articles and books on Montgomery, the most recent being Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery.
