Montgomery, Lucy Maud ___ 1874-1942 ___ Canadian ___ teacher, writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, but, when she was two, her mother died of TB. Thereafter, she was brought up by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish. She studied at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She worked as a teacher, and also began writing. 'Anne of Green Gables' was written during a period when she went back to Cavendish to look after her grandmother. The book, published in 1908, was very popular, as were several sequels written over the next 30 years. In 1911, she married the Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian minister, and moved to Ontario. In 1925 the family moved to Norval, near Toronto, and then, in 1935, after her husband's retirement, to Toronto. The last of the 'Anne' series was published in 1939. She left behind ten volumes of personal diaries, and publication of these began in 1985.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1889-1942 ___ literary religious family domestic self love/sex

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Library and Archives Canada

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Selected Journals of L M Montgomery 1889-1910
The Selected Journals of L M Montgomery 1921-1929
The Selected Journals of L M Montgomery 1935-1942
 

December 2005, July 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.