| The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume II: 1910-1921 Contributor(s): Rubio, Mary (Editor), Waterston, Elizabeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195418018 ISBN-13: 9780195418019 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: 818.520 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. This volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery's journals records a time of great change and upheaval both in Montgomery's life and in society. When she wrote the first entry in this volume she had recently become a world-famous author, having published Anne of Green Gables in 1908. Here we become privy to her response to the death of her grandmother, her marriage and honeymoon trip to Scotland and England, and her departure from Prince Edward Island to the new restrictions of her life as the wife of a Presbyterian minister in an Ontario village. Montgomery reveals the intensities of friendships, the minutiae of homemaking, and the joys of motherhood along with the traumas of a disturbed marriage. By turns tart and sentimental, sharp-sighted and anxiety-ridden, L.M. Montgomery provides a compelling record of her remarkable life against a background -- both social and literary -- of a tumultuous period in Canadian history. |