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L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in the village of Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island in Canada. She was brought up by her grandparents after her mother died when she was two. Later her father moved away to Saskatchewan, where he remarried, and when she spent some months in his new home she was not happy. 'I do not think', she wrote, 'that the majority of grownups have any real conception of the tortures sensitive children suffer over any marked difference between themselves and the other denizens of their small world.'

While working as a reporter for the Halifax Daily Echo, she wrote Anne of Green Gables in the evenings over a period of eighteen months and when it was rejected by four publishers she put it away for two years. Then she revised it and a Boston publisher accepted it at once. When it appeared in 1908 the book proved so popular that ever afterwards she felt constrained by the public's constant demand for more stories about Anne. She did write five sequels – as well as many other novels – and they made her rich, but none reached the classic status of the first.

In 1911 she married Ewan Macdonald. She had two sons; she enjoyed fame and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. She died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried in Cavendish Cemetery, not far from her birthplace.
Penguin Minis: Anne of Green Gables
The Blue Castle
The Blythes Are Quoted
The Story Girl
The Golden Road
The Story Girl
Anne of Green Gables
Emily's Quest
Emily Climbs
Emily of New Moon
Rilla of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of the Island
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, 100th Anniversary Edition
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
The Road to Yesterday
Chronicles of Avonlea
Rilla of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Ingleside
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of the Island
Emily's Quest
Emily Climbs
Emily of New Moon
Anne of Green Gables

Books

Penguin Minis: Anne of Green Gables
The Blue Castle
The Blythes Are Quoted
The Story Girl
The Golden Road
The Story Girl
Anne of Green Gables
Emily's Quest
Emily Climbs
Emily of New Moon
Rilla of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of the Island
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, 100th Anniversary Edition
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
The Road to Yesterday
Chronicles of Avonlea
Rilla of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Ingleside
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of the Island
Emily's Quest
Emily Climbs
Emily of New Moon
Anne of Green Gables