| The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume I |
| 1889 - 1910 |
| Edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterson |
Beginning when Lucy Maud Montgomery is fourteen, this
first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her
marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island.
It recounts her schooldays in Cavendish, redolent with
incidents, impressions, and romantic "crushes" that found
their way into her fiction; a year spent in Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother; a year of
study at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, where
she trained to be a teacher, and another at Dalhousie
University; her teaching years; a powerful infatuation with
the son of a family she lived with; a long and mostly
unhappy period of keeping house for her grandmother; and
the publication of Anne of Green Gables.
The autobiographical content will fascinate every devoted
reader of the Anne books. But the Montgomery journals
are especially interesting because they provide a unique
social history and the privilege of viewing closely the life of
a remarkable woman. Comprising perhaps the most vivid
and detailed memoir in Canadian letters, the journals will
join Anne of Green Gables in ensuring Montgomery's
lasting place in Canadian literature. This volume is a rich
and engrossing prelude to the whole.
first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her
marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island.
It recounts her schooldays in Cavendish, redolent with
incidents, impressions, and romantic "crushes" that found
their way into her fiction; a year spent in Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother; a year of
study at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, where
she trained to be a teacher, and another at Dalhousie
University; her teaching years; a powerful infatuation with
the son of a family she lived with; a long and mostly
unhappy period of keeping house for her grandmother; and
the publication of Anne of Green Gables.
The autobiographical content will fascinate every devoted
reader of the Anne books. But the Montgomery journals
are especially interesting because they provide a unique
social history and the privilege of viewing closely the life of
a remarkable woman. Comprising perhaps the most vivid
and detailed memoir in Canadian letters, the journals will
join Anne of Green Gables in ensuring Montgomery's
lasting place in Canadian literature. This volume is a rich
and engrossing prelude to the whole.
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| "These are journals so enlightening, so full of wisdom, humor, philosophy and tragedy that they are worth a winter's reading and reflection." - Ottawa Citizen |
| _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS |
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Notes Ommissions Index |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE EDITORS Mary Rubio Elizabeth Waterston |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Maud Montgomery |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES |
| VOLUME II |
| VOLUME III |
| VOLUME IV |
| VOLUME V |
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