The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900
A Biography, Nonfiction book. Reading Montgomery's journals was interesting and eye-opening. Some incidents can be found...
The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fifty percent of the material removed to save space, as well as to reflect a quaint, marketable vision of small-town Canada. The editors were instructed to excise anything that was not upbeat or did not "move the story along." The resulting account of Montgomery's youthful life in Prince Edward Island depicts a fun-loving, simple country girl. The unabridged journal, however, reveals something quite different. We now know that Montgomery was anything but simple. She was often anxious, bitter, dark, and political, although always able to see herself and her surroundings with a deep ironic - and often comical - twist. The unabridged version shows her using writing as a means of managing her own mood swings, as well as her increasing dependency on journal keeping, and her ambition as a writer. She was also exceedingly interested in men. We see here a more developed portrait of what she herself described as a "very uncomfortable blend" between "the passionate Montgomery blood and the Puritan Macneill conscience." Full details describe...
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These journals are a fascinating account of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life as well as life in Canada at that time. What she doesn't say is as interesting as what she does include in her journals. Follow those journals with Mary Rubio's "The Gift of Wings"..who has extensively edited Montgomery's journalsthrough interviews with friends,... it took me a year to read this book. I found it a bit repetitive at some times but I love her books so much that it was interesting to see how she lived. Reading Montgomery's journals was interesting and eye-opening. Some incidents can be found in her books, others were rather shocking. Had I not read an extract about her relationship with Herman Leard in the Lucy Maud Montgomery Album before, I would have been flabbergasted, considering the time and place Montgomery lived. As this volume...
