| Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in New London (Clifton), Prince
Edward Island on November 30, 1874, the daughter of Hugh John
Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill. After her mother's death from
tuberculosis in September of 1876, and her father's decision to move to
the West, Lucy Maud made her home in Cavendish with her material
grandparents, Alexander and Lucy Macneill. Her grandparents provided
a comfortable home, but they were very strict and limited her social life.
Lucy Maud escaped through her love of reading. She also wrote prose
and poetry. As a child, she attended a one-room school in Cavendish.
At fifteen, she moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father and
his new wife. While there, she had success when a poem and short story
Edward Island on November 30, 1874, the daughter of Hugh John
Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill. After her mother's death from
tuberculosis in September of 1876, and her father's decision to move to
the West, Lucy Maud made her home in Cavendish with her material
grandparents, Alexander and Lucy Macneill. Her grandparents provided
a comfortable home, but they were very strict and limited her social life.
Lucy Maud escaped through her love of reading. She also wrote prose
and poetry. As a child, she attended a one-room school in Cavendish.
At fifteen, she moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father and
his new wife. While there, she had success when a poem and short story
were accepted for publication by the Charlottetown Daily Patriot. Lucy returned to Prince Edward
Island after only a year and attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. She obtained a
teacher's license and taught in Bideford, Prince Edward Island from 1894 to 1895. The next year she
studied at Dalhousie College in Halifax and then returned to the Island to teach at Belmont, Lot 16
from 1896 to 1897 and at Lower Bedeque from 1897 to 1898.
After the death of her grandfather in 1898, Lucy Maud returned to Cavendish to live with her
grandmother. She spent the next 13 years there. Lucy Maud continued to write and it was during this
period that her first novel, Anne of Green Gables was published. After the death of her grandmother in
1988, Lucy Maud married Rev. Ewen Macdonald, a Presbyterian minister to whom she had been
engaged since 1906. They moved to Ontario where they had three children. Lucy Maud combined a
literary career with teaching and household obligations. She produced more than 20 novels, books and
collections of verse.
Lucy Maud Montgomery died on April 24, 1942, at the age of sixty-seven. She was buried in the
Cavendish Cemetery, in a plot she had herself chosen. [Information for this brief biography was
abstracted from the Introduction to Spirit of Place, written by Francis W.P. Bolger.]
In recent years, selected writings from Lucy Maud Montgomery's Journals have been published and
are available to readers. Volume One of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery (1986) covers the
period from 1889 to 1902; Volume Two (1988) the period from 1910 to 1921; Volume Three (1993)
from 1921 to 1929; Volume Four (1998) from 1920 to 1935; Volume Five (2004) from 1935 to 1942.
Hundred of books have been written by and about Lucy Maud Montgomery. Some of the most
memorable include: Spirit of Place (1982), Anne of Green Gables Cookbook (1988), Fragrance of
Sweet Grass (1993), The Annotated Anne of Green Gables (1997), Remembering Lucy Maud
Montgomery (2001), A Writer's Garden (2004), The Way to Slumbertown (2005) and The Intimate Life
of Lucy Maud Montgomery (2005).
Island after only a year and attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. She obtained a
teacher's license and taught in Bideford, Prince Edward Island from 1894 to 1895. The next year she
studied at Dalhousie College in Halifax and then returned to the Island to teach at Belmont, Lot 16
from 1896 to 1897 and at Lower Bedeque from 1897 to 1898.
After the death of her grandfather in 1898, Lucy Maud returned to Cavendish to live with her
grandmother. She spent the next 13 years there. Lucy Maud continued to write and it was during this
period that her first novel, Anne of Green Gables was published. After the death of her grandmother in
1988, Lucy Maud married Rev. Ewen Macdonald, a Presbyterian minister to whom she had been
engaged since 1906. They moved to Ontario where they had three children. Lucy Maud combined a
literary career with teaching and household obligations. She produced more than 20 novels, books and
collections of verse.
Lucy Maud Montgomery died on April 24, 1942, at the age of sixty-seven. She was buried in the
Cavendish Cemetery, in a plot she had herself chosen. [Information for this brief biography was
abstracted from the Introduction to Spirit of Place, written by Francis W.P. Bolger.]
In recent years, selected writings from Lucy Maud Montgomery's Journals have been published and
are available to readers. Volume One of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery (1986) covers the
period from 1889 to 1902; Volume Two (1988) the period from 1910 to 1921; Volume Three (1993)
from 1921 to 1929; Volume Four (1998) from 1920 to 1935; Volume Five (2004) from 1935 to 1942.
Hundred of books have been written by and about Lucy Maud Montgomery. Some of the most
memorable include: Spirit of Place (1982), Anne of Green Gables Cookbook (1988), Fragrance of
Sweet Grass (1993), The Annotated Anne of Green Gables (1997), Remembering Lucy Maud
Montgomery (2001), A Writer's Garden (2004), The Way to Slumbertown (2005) and The Intimate Life
of Lucy Maud Montgomery (2005).
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