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Reviews"Montgomery's journals provide not only poignant and entertaining reading, but a fine source of social, medical and literary history as well." - Atlantic Books Today, "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, "These are journals so enlightening, so full of wisdom, humor, philosophyand tragedy that they are worth a winter's reading and reflection." - OttawaCitizen, "The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery have given me enormous pleasure....These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child."--Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries, writing in The Boston Sunday Globe, "The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery...have given me enormous pleasure." Carol Shields, The Boston Globe"These journals are an important contribution, not just to literary and social history but to the body of Canadian literature." - Books in Canada"Montgomery comes to life in a way that is only possible in the pages of a journal." - Toronto Star"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"We owe Professors Rubio and Waterston a very large debt of gratitude for their patient work on these volumes; they are a record of life-writing unique in our literature and outstanding in any company." - Clara Thomas, Literary Review of Canada"Montgomery's journals provide not only poignant and entertaining reading, but a fine source of social, medical and literary history as well." - Atlantic Books Today"As a document and tribute to the sensibility of a fine Canadian writer, it is invaluable." - Calgary Herald"For anyone under the mistaken impression that Montgomery's novels represent the pinnacle of her literary output, her journals are a must-read." - Canadian Book Review Annual, "The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery...have given me enormous pleasure." Carol Shields, The Boston Globe, "We owe Professors Rubio and Waterston a very large debt of gratitude fortheir patient work on these volumes; they are a record of life-writing unique inour literature and outstanding in any company." - Clara Thomas, Literary Reviewof Canada, " The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery have given me enormous pleasure....These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child."--Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries , writing in The Boston Sunday Globe, "As a document and tribute to the sensibility of a fine Canadian writer,it is invaluable." - Calgary Herald, "These journals are an important contribution, not just to literary andsocial history but to the body of Canadian literature." - Books in Canada, "For anyone under the mistaken impression that Montgomery's novelsrepresent the pinnacle of her literary output, her journals are a must-read." -Canadian Book Review Annual, "We owe Professors Rubio and Waterston a very large debt of gratitude for their patient work on these volumes; they are a record of life-writing unique in our literature and outstanding in any company." - Clara Thomas, Literary Review of Canada, "For anyone under the mistaken impression that Montgomery's novels represent the pinnacle of her literary output, her journals are a must-read." - Canadian Book Review Annual, "The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomeryhave given me enormous pleasure....These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child."--Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Stone Diaries, writing inThe Boston Sunday Globe, "Montgomery's journals provide not only poignant and entertaining reading,but a fine source of social, medical and literary history as well." - AtlanticBooks Today, "As a document and tribute to the sensibility of a fine Canadian writer, it is invaluable." - Calgary Herald, "The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery...have given me enormouspleasure." Carol Shields, The Boston Globe, "These journals are an important contribution, not just to literary and social history but to the body of Canadian literature." - Books in Canada
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SynopsisElizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.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 andstepmother; 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 livedwith; 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 ofGreen Gables in ensuring Montgomery's lasting place in Canadian literature. This volume is a rich and engrossing prelude to the whole., Providing an intimate portrait of the celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables as well as a unique social history of rural Canada, The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery have won lasting critical and popular acclaim. Volume I, now available in paperback, begins when Lucy Maud Montgomery is fourteen and continues until the year before her marriage., Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.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., Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874- 1942)-whose Anne of Green Gables and many other novels are loved by readers around the world-kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when she was fourteen and continuing them until shortly before her death. Spontaneous and frank, they are unusual for their narrative interest: Montgomery's gifts as a storyteller are as much evidence here as in her novels. This first volume of the immensely successful Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery launched in 1985, takes Montgomery to 1910, the year before her marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island. 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 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.