| The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume IV |
| 1929-1935 |
| Edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston |
The fourth volume of the immensely successful Selected
Journals of L. M. Montgomery, covers the tumultuous period
in the writer's life from 1929 to 1935.
By 1929 Lucy Maud was 54 years old and known world-wide
as the author of Anne of Green Gables and many other
books, yet this was also a time of numerous setbacks. The
stock market crash, a drop in royalties from her many books,
the need to provide her two sons with a university education,
her husband's modest church salary often in arrears, and the
fact that many loans she had made to friends and family were
not repaid, placed Montgomery in the position where she had
to type her own manuscripts for the first time since 1910.
She also had to face personal crises as her sons' university
results were extremely disappointing, her husband suffered a
total nervous breakdown, she had concerns over her own
mental state, there was further controversy in her husband's
parish - Norval Presbyterian Church, and Montgomery
became the unwilling object of a young woman's declaration
of passionate love.
Yet was not a period without joy as well, the volume opens
with joyful travels to Prince Edward Island and western
Canada and ends with her looking forward with great
excitement to a new life in Toronto.
For anyone wishing to better understand this complex and
gifted author, as well as the time and place in which she
lived, these journals offer a wealth of insight and information.
Journals of L. M. Montgomery, covers the tumultuous period
in the writer's life from 1929 to 1935.
By 1929 Lucy Maud was 54 years old and known world-wide
as the author of Anne of Green Gables and many other
books, yet this was also a time of numerous setbacks. The
stock market crash, a drop in royalties from her many books,
the need to provide her two sons with a university education,
her husband's modest church salary often in arrears, and the
fact that many loans she had made to friends and family were
not repaid, placed Montgomery in the position where she had
to type her own manuscripts for the first time since 1910.
She also had to face personal crises as her sons' university
results were extremely disappointing, her husband suffered a
total nervous breakdown, she had concerns over her own
mental state, there was further controversy in her husband's
parish - Norval Presbyterian Church, and Montgomery
became the unwilling object of a young woman's declaration
of passionate love.
Yet was not a period without joy as well, the volume opens
with joyful travels to Prince Edward Island and western
Canada and ends with her looking forward with great
excitement to a new life in Toronto.
For anyone wishing to better understand this complex and
gifted author, as well as the time and place in which she
lived, these journals offer a wealth of insight and information.
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| "Montgomery comes to life in a way that is only possible in the pages of a journal." - Toronto Star |
| _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS |
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the Text 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Notes List of Deletions Mistakes in Montgomery's date-headings Appendices Chronology Index |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE EDITORS Mary Rubio Elizabeth Waterston |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Maud Montgomery |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES |
| VOLUME V |
| VOLUME I |
| VOLUME II |
| VOLUME III |
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