Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as simply L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables.

Biography

Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island. She attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown to get a teaching certificate. In 1895-96 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the age of seventeen, she began working for the newspapers Chronicle and Echo. She moved back to Prince Edward Island, following a time when she lived in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father.

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Prince Edward Island - Prince of Wales College - Charlottetown - Dalhousie University - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

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After working as a teacher in various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish to live with her grandmother. She was inspired to write her first books during this time on Prince Edward Island. In 1911, she married the Rev. Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian Minister, and moved to Ontario where he had taken the position of minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale in present-day Uxbridge Township, that was also affiliated with the former (closed 1968) Presbyterian congregation in nearby Zephyr.

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Cavendish - 1911 - Presbyterian Minister - Ontario - St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale - Uxbridge Township - Zephyr

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She wrote her next eleven books from the Manse at Leaskdale, Ontario. The Manse was sold by the congregation and is now the Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum. The family, with two surviving children, Chester, and Stuart (Hugh Alexander died at birth in 1913), moved in 1926 to the Norval Presbyterian Charge, in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where a Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden can be seen from Highway 7. She died in Toronto in 1942, and was buried at Cavendish.

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Manse - 1926 - Norval Presbyterian Charge - Halton Hills, Ontario - Highway 7 - Toronto - 1942

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Her major collections are archived at the University of Guelph, while the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island coordinates most of the research and conferences surrounding her work. Her complete journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, have recently been published by the Oxford University Press.

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University of Guelph - Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute - University of Prince Edward Island - Oxford University Press

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