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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.
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culture · Canadian novelist (1874–1942) · writer · novelist · children's writer · poet · diarist · biographer · short story writer · journalist · teacher · young adult author · also Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lucy Maude Montgomery, L. M. Montgomery, LM Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery, L. M. Montgomery.
Born 30 November 1874 · Died 24 April 1942 · Q273034
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2026· 8 entries
“I was in bed for ten days. I never felt so sick or weak in my life”
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“it unsettles him and he cannot do his work properly.”
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“a great calm seemed to descend upon me and envelop me. I was at peace. The conviction seized upon me that Verdun was safe-that the Germans would not pass the grim barrier of desperate France. I was as a woman from whom some evil spirit had been driven-or can it be as a priestess of old, who out of depths of agony wins some strange foresight of the future?”
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“I am frankly in literature to make a living out of it.”
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“I would not want him for a lover but I hope at first that I might find a friend in him.”
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“Tears of disappointment would come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide the poor crumpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk.”
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BroadwayWorld: Lucy Maud Montgomery
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s ‘The Blue Castle’ Film Adaptation in the Works (Exclusive)
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2015· 2 entries
Yahoo: Who Is Lucy Maud Montgomery? Google Doodle Celebrates the 'Anne of Green Gables' Author
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Search Engine Land: Lucy Maud Montgomery Google Doodle Honors “Anne Of Green Gables” Author On Her 141st Birthday
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2012· 1 entry
The original novel Anne of Green Gables was ranked number nine among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U
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1997· 1 entry
(Leaskdale Manse), while the place that inspired her famous novels, Green Gables, was formally recognized as "L
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1993· 1 entry
At the University of Prince Edward Island, promotes scholarly inquiry into the life, works, culture, and influence of L
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1988· 1 entry
- dozens of Montgomery's short stories, many of which were only published once in magazine format in the early 20th century and unavailable in the decades that followed, have been compiled into a variety of themed omnibu
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1975· 1 entry
The Post Office Department issued a stamp to "Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables" designed by Peter Swan and typographed by Bernard N
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1974· 1 entry
More than 30 years after the original work had been submitted
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1942· 6 entries
Montgomery was found dead in her bed in her Toronto home
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Died 1942-04-24.
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Montgomery wrote: "Since then my life has been hell, hell, hell
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“Since then my life has been hell, hell, hell. My mind is gone—everything in the world I lived for has gone–the world has gone mad. I shall be driven to end my life. Oh God, forgive me. Nobody dreams of what my awful position is.”
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“Podobno w górnym biegu przemykał się przez lasy zwinnie i szybko, kryjąc mroczne tajemnice...”
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“It wouldn’t do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. (ang.)”
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1941· 3 entries
Montgomery wrote to a friend: "This past year has been one of constant blows to me
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“This past year has been one of constant blows to me. My oldest son has made a mess of his life and his wife has left him. My husband”
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“Oh God, such an end to life. Such suffering and wretchedness.”
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1940· 1 entry
The Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King introduced conscription under the National Resources Mobilization Act, but with the caveat that conscripts could only be used in the defence of North America, and o
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1938· 1 entry
And the revelation that the supposed Ojibwe was actually the Englishman Archie Belaney, Montgomery stated that though Belaney lied about being an Ojibwe, his concerns for the environment, nature, and animals were real, a
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1937· 1 entry
Montgomery gave a speech in Toronto at another annual gathering of the Toronto Book Fair, calling for Canadian writers to write more stories about Canada, arguing that Canadians had great stories worth writing
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1936· 1 entry
To promote Canadian literature, Montgomery met the pseudo-Ojibwe author and environmentalist Grey Owl
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1935· 2 entries
(1935 Birthday Honours), King George V named Montgomery an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and on September 8, 1935, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the ceremony of investiture into the Order was held with th
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Upon her husband's retirement, Montgomery moved to Swansea, Ontario, then a suburb of Toronto (it has now been annexed into the city proper)
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1934· 2 entries
Montgomery's extremely depressed husband signed himself into a sanatorium in Guelph
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Who complained about the dark mood of Pat of Silver Bush, Montgomery replied: "I gave Anne my imagination and Emily Starr my knack for scribbling; but the girl who is more myself than any other is 'Pat of Silver Bush'
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1933· 1 entry
Montgomery published Pat of Silver Bush, which reflected a move towards more "adult" stories for young people
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1928· 1 entry
Montgomery received a cheque for the $15,000 US dollars, the amount that the auditors established Page had cheated her
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1927· 1 entry
Accused Montgomery of causing his brother's death by suing him for shares of the royalties
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1926· 1 entry
The family moved into the Norval Presbyterian Charge in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where today the Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden can be seen from Highway 7
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1925· 2 entries
A Massachusetts court ruled in favour of Montgomery against her publisher, Louis Coues Page, as the judge found that he had systematically cheated her out of the profits from the Anne books since 1908
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Ewen Macdonald became estranged from his flock when he opposed his church's joining the United Church of Canada, and was involved in an incident where he nearly ran over a Methodist minister who was promoting the union
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1924· 1 entry
The Maple Leaf magazine asked its readers to nominate the 14 greatest living Canadians, and all of the winners were men
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1921· 1 entry
Montgomery started writing what became the novel Emily of New Moon, as she planned to replace Anne with Emily as the star of a new series of novels
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1920· 4 entries
The house where Montgomery grew up in Cavendish was torn down by her uncle, who complained that too many tourists were coming on to the property to see the house that inspired that in which Anne was depicted as growing u
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Montgomery was infuriated with the 1919 film version of Anne of Green Gables for changing Anne from a Canadian to an American, writing in her diary: It was a pretty little play well photographed, but I think if I hadn't
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“s book The Story of an African Farm, which defined different types of love, including a”
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Montgomery wrote in her diary a quotation from the South African writer Olive Schreiner's book The Story of an African Farm, which defined different types of love, including a "love without wisdom, sweet as life, bitter
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1918· 3 entries
Montgomery wrote after a visit to Toronto in November: "Toronto was then beginning to be panic stricken over the outbreak of the terrible 'Spanish flu'
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“Toronto was then beginning to be panic stricken over the outbreak of the terrible”
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Montgomery was stricken with the Spanish flu
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1917· 2 entries
When she finally discovered that Page was cheating her
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Montgomery was engaged in five bitter, costly, and burdensome lawsuits with Louis Coues Page, owner of the publishing house L
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1916· 1 entry
To write in her diary: "All my misery seemed to centre around Verdun where the snow was no longer white
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1915· 2 entries
Montgomery gave birth to her third child and was thrown into depression when she discovered she could not produce breast milk to feed her son, who was given cow's milk instead, which was a health risk in the days before
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“I am not one of those who believe that this war will put an end to war. War is horrible, but there are things that are more horrible still, just as there are fates worse than death.”
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1914· 2 entries
About the reports of the "Rape of Belgium":But oh, there have been such hideous stories in the papers lately of their cutting off the hands of little children in Belgium
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Was an intense supporter of the war effort, seeing the war as a crusade to save civilization, regularly writing articles urging men to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force and for people on the home front to bu
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1912· 1 entry
Would publish a short story collection set in Avonlea (with Anne featured in one), Chronicles of Avonlea, then in 1915 a third novel in the series, Anne of the Island, followed by numerous others over the remainder o
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1911· 1 entry
Montgomery married Ewen (spelled in her notes and letters as "Ewan") Macdonald (1870–1943), a Presbyterian minister, and they moved to Ontario, where he had taken the position of minister of St
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1908· 2 entries
And as such, all of the royalties paid by Hollywood for both versions of Anne of Green Gables went to him, not Montgomery
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Montgomery published her first book, Anne of Green Gables
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1905· 2 entries
Montgomery wrote in her journal, "amid the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty
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“amid the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never quite draw it aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it. I seemed to catch a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond—only a glimpse—but those glimpses had always made life worthwhile.”
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1898· 4 entries
Montgomery wrote she had to stay faithful to Simpson: "for the sake of my self respect I must not stoop to any sort of an affair with another man"
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Montgomery moved back to Cavendish to live with her widowed grandmother
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After much unhappiness and disillusionment, Montgomery broke off her engagement to Simpson
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“for the sake of my self respect I must not stoop to any sort of an affair with another man”
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1897· 2 entries
Her short stories were published in magazines and newspapers
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Montgomery received a proposal from Edwin Simpson, a student in French River near Cavendish
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1896· 1 entry
Studied at Dalhousie University (1895–1896).
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1895· 1 entry
And 1896, she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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1894· 1 entry
Studied at Prince of Wales College (1893–1894).
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1893· 1 entry
Montgomery attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown to obtain a teacher's license
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1889· 1 entry
Montgomery began a relationship with a Cavendish boy, Nate Lockhart
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1887· 2 entries
At age 13, Montgomery wrote in her diary that she had "early dreams of future fame
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“early dreams of future fame.”
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-11-30.
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