NEW! L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

Edited by Dr. Irene Gammel and Dr. Elizabeth Epperly

Despite the enormous popularity of L. M. Montgomery's books, her role in he development of Canada's national culture is not often discussed by historians.  This book contains essays based partly on papers presented at a 1996 international conference on LMM and Canadian Culture and partly on essays by the editors that help us understand our debt to Montgomery's influence on Canadian culture.  249 pages

Hardcover

The Canadians - Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Mollie Gillen

Biography of LM Montgomery that would be useful in the classroom level. Larger print, lots of illustrations and photographs. 63 pages

Soft cover

The Years before Anne

by Francis Bolger

Francis W.P. Bolger, Island historian has compiled an informative and complete picture of the fascinating life and brilliant career of Lucy Maud Montgomery, drawing on her scrapbooks, letters, diaries, photos and conversations with family members. 

Soft cover only.

Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery

by Alexandra Heilbron

Alexandra Heilbron uncovers a fascinating side of L. M. Montgomery.  She loving looks at the life of Prince Edward Islands most famous author.  This book includes many photos that have been published for the first time.

Maud's House of Dreams: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery  

by Janet Louise Lunn

Maud's House of Dreams is a moving and minutely detailed account for young-adult readers of the life and work of Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known around the globe as the author of Anne of Green Gables. The small-town world of Prince Edward Island at the junction of the 19th and 20th centuries was not the most nurturing environment for a young, motherless girl aspiring to be a writer. Left in the care of her cold and indifferent grandparents by an absent father, young Maud's vivid imagination became her "house of dreams": the place in which she would find comfort and solace for all of her life and the wellspring for her numerous poems, short stories, and novels.

Award-winning young adult author Janet Lunn vividly brings to life the story of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Montgomery was not yet two years old when her mother died. The journey from that day to the day Montgomery signed "Lucy Maud Montgomery" at the end of her first published story was long and often painful. In this her life was much like that of her famous character Anne of Green Gables. Both had to overcome loneliness and challenges before finally knowing success. And, as Anne has been for nearly a century, Montgomery is an inspiration to girls and young women around the world.
Today, Lucy Maud Montgomery's books have been translated into nearly every language, and transformed into dozens of plays, musicals, films, and made-for-television series. In 1975 a Canadian Anne of Green Gables postage stamp was issued, and recently, an Anne theme park was opened in Tokyo. At the end of 1999, when lists of the last century's favorite writers were being compiled, the name Lucy Maud Montgomery led all others.

About the Author: Janet Lunn is one of Canada's most popular writers for young adults. Her books include The Root Cellar, Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, The Hollow Tree, and -- with Christopher Moore -- The Story of Canada. Her many distinguished awards, national and international, include The Vicky Metcalf Award for Body of Work, two Governor General's Awards, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. Janet Lunn lives in Ottawa.

Hardcover, 160 pages, young adult

The Wheel of Things ~ A Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Mollie Gillen

Lucy Maud Montgomery is Canada's best-known writer of children's fiction. Anne of Green Gables— in print, film, television, on stage—captures people's imaginations as easily now as it did when it burst upon the world in 1908.

Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island and she set her best-loved stories there. She worked briefly as a journalist, but family responsibilities shaped her life as a young single woman. At 36 she married a dour, often depressive Presbyterian minister and moved to Ontario. There she lived a life of contradictions—in private, the romantic, successful imaginative writer; in public the strict, dutiful minister’s wife.

Using diaries and letters Lucy Maud never intended to be made public, The Wheel of Things is a pioneering biography of one of Canada's most successful and important writers. Since its publication, the release of Montgomery's diaries and other work by scholarly writers have confirmed the life story that Mollie Gillen tells so well in this important and path-breaking biography.

This book contains black and white photographs and has 204 Pages.  Paperback

Lucy Maud Montgomery "The Island Lady of Stories"  Soft cover

Interesting soft cover booklet from Prince Edward Island's Women's Institute.  Features information about LM Montgomery and also the words and music to 'The Island Hymn'.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, A Writer's Life

From Kids Can Press and written by Elizabeth MacLeod, this is a lovely book for kids and adults alike! Beautifully designed and illustrated, engaging for the children and interesting for adults. Did you know that in 1914 LMM made $12,000 in royalties from her books.   She earned the same amount that Canada's Prime Minister earned the same year! Measures 11.5 inches by 8.5 inches, is soft covered and has 32 pages.

The Green Gables Letters - Letters from LMM to Ephraim Weber 1905-1909

An interesting sequence of letters, written by L. M. Montgomery early in the century, was found in 1956 among the papers of Ephraim Weber who was living in the West.  Now lodged in the National Archives in Ottawa, the letters reproduced here exactly as they were written, form a fascinating footnote in the history of Canadian letters.

These letters are of interest and importance not only because they were written during the years of gestation and birth and outstanding success of the book  Anne of Green Gables, but also because they reveal a lively extrovert in an eminently healthy balance.  This is an absorbing book, for adults who have nostalgic memories of Anne, and for writers who need encouragement in their struggle for literary recognition or for anyone interested in the social mosaic of life in the early years of the 1900's.

Soft cover

My Dear Mr. M - Letters to G. B. MacMillan from L. M. Montgomery   Soft cover   

Edited by Francis W. P. Bolger & Elizabeth R. Epperly  

Now in stock, one of the more difficult to locate books by  Montgomery! Currently out of print but we have some copies. L. M. Montgomery was a keen letter writer and her letters to George Boyd MacMillan over their 39 year friendship show the full range of her interest, from domestic concerns, her cats and gardening, to her professional literary career as best-selling author.  During her friendship with MacMillan, L. M. Montgomery changes from a confident and cheerful young woman to a disillusioned but courageous older woman.  I can personally recommend this book as a very interesting reading experience.

Soft cover only