The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900
A Nonfiction, Biography book. I have been a huge fan of Lucy Maud Montgomery ever since I fell in love with Anne...
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,...
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- ISBN: 9780199002108 / 0
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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,... 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... I have been a huge fan of Lucy Maud Montgomery ever since I fell in love with Anne of Green Gables when I was 5 years old. Despite reading all of her works (The Blue Castle is my favorite) I never really read up much on Maud herself until after I visited Prince Edward Island in 2006. I saw so many quotes and things about her everywhere...
