The L.M. Montgomery Reader : : Volume One: A Life in Print / / Benjamin Lefebvre.

• VerfasserIn: Lefebvre, Benjamin,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Thomas F.,; Boone, Arabella,; Bothwell, Austin,; Brown, A. V.,; Chapman, Ethel M.,; Cowan, C. L.,; Dole, Nathan Haskell,; Dwight, Phoebe,; Hale, Katherine,; Lefebvre, Benjamin,; Macdonald, L.M. Montgomery,; Macmurchy, Marjory,; Mahon, A. Wylie,; Mcgillicuddy, Owen,; Montgomery, L. M.,; Montgomery, Lucy Maud,; Muir, Norma Phillips,; Nias, Anne E.,; Rhodenizer, V. B.,; Sinclair, Donald B.,; Weber, E.,; Wuorio, Eva-Lis,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles significant rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors throughout her high-profile career and after her death. Each of its three volumes gathers pieces published all over the world to set the stage for a much-needed reassessment of Montgomery's literary reputation. Much of the material is freshly unearthed from archives and digital collections and has never before been published in book form.The selections appearing in this first volume focus on Montgomery's role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). They give a strong impression of her as a writer and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of "old ideals." These essays and interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss her work's literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections in all.Each volume is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that trace the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery. This volume - and the Reader as a whole - adds tremendously to our understanding and appreciation of Montgomery's legacy as a Canadian author and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Life in Print -- A Note on the Text -- 1. [Such a Delightful Little Person] (1908) -- 2. Author Tells How He Wrote His Story (1908) -- 3. Origin of Popular Book (1908) -- 4. The Author of Anne of Avonlea (1909) -- 5. Miss Montgomery, the Author of the "Anne" Books (1909) -- 6. A Trio of Women Writers (1909) -- 7. Canadian Writers on Canadian Literature - A Symposium (1910) -- 8. Says Woman's Place Is Home (1910) -- 9. Want to Know How to Write Books? Well Here's a Real Recipe (1910) -- 10. Miss Montgomery's Visit to Boston (1910) -- 11. Four Questions Answered (1910) -- 12. Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables (1910) -- 13. How I Began to Write (1911) -- 14. [Seasons in the Woods] (1911) -- 15. With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911) -- 16. [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911) -- 17. A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911) -- 18. Interviews with Authors (1911) -- 19. The Old Minister in The Story Girl (1912) -- 20. L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913) -- 21. L.M. Montgomery at Women's Canadian Club (1913) -- 22. L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914) -- 23. What Twelve Canadian Women Hope to See as the Outcome of the War (1915) -- 24. The Way to Make a Book (1915) -- 25. How I Began (1915) -- 26. [This Hideous War] (1915) -- 27. What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916) -- 28. My Favorite Bookshelf 1917 -- 29. The Author of Anne (1919) -- 30. The Gay Days of Old (1919) -- 31. Introduction to Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920) -- 32. One Little Girl Who Wrote to L.M. Montgomery and Received a Reply (1920) -- 33. A Sextette of Canadian Women Writers (1920) -- 34. Blank Verse? "Very Blank," Said Father (1921) -- 35. "I Dwell among My Own People" (1921) -- 36. Bits from My Mailbag (1922) -- 37. From Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (1923) -- 38. Novel Writing Notes (1923) -- 39. Proud That Canadian Literature Is Clean (1924) -- 40. Canadian Public Cold to Its Own Literature (1924) -- 41. Thinks Modern Flapper Will Be Strict Mother (1924) -- 42. Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences (1924) -- 43. Something about L.M. Montgomery (1925) -- 44. L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside: A Reader's Journal (1925) -- 45. Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925) -- 46. The Day before Yesterday (1927) -- 47. Who's Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927) -- 48. About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of "Anne" (1927) -- 49. On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927) -- 50. Minister's Wife and Authoress (1928) -- 51. An Autobiographical Sketch (1929) -- 52. Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929) -- 53. L.M. Montgomery's Ideas (1930) -- 54. The 'Teen-Age Girl (1931) -- 55. Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931) -- 56. An Open Letter from a Minister's Wife (1931) -- 57. Life Has Been Interesting (1933) -- 58. The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933) -- 59. From Courageous Women (1934) -- 60. Author to Get No Profit as Green Gables Filmed (1934) -- 61. Film Preview of Noted Novel Honors Canadian Woman Writer (1934) -- 62. Is This My Anne (1935) -- 63. Foreword to Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936) -- 64. Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936) -- 65. Memories of Childhood Days (1936) -- 66. The Mother of the Anne Series - Lucy M. Montgomery (1937) -- 67. The Book and the Film (1937) -- 68. For and about Girls (1937) -- 69. Prince Edward Island (1939) -- 70. Beloved Writer Addresses Several Aurora Gatherings (1940) -- 71. Noted Author Dies Suddenly at Home Here (1942) -- 72. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942) -- 73. L.M. Montgomery's "Anne" (1942) -- 74. Body of Island's Beloved Authoress Home for Burial (1942) -- 75. Island Writer Laid to Rest at Cavendish (1942) -- 76. The Creator of "Anne" (1942) -- 77. [L.M. Montgomery's Last Poem] (1942) -- 78. L.M. Montgomery / Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen Macdonald (1942) -- 79. L.M. Montgomery as a Letter-Writer (1942) -- 80. L.M. Montgomery's "Anne" (1944) -- Epilogue: Anne of Green Gables - The Story of the Photoplay (1920) -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index