Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), 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.

She published 20 novels and more than a thousand short stories and poems over the course of her career. She was also a prolific essayist. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site—namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park.

Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide. The L. M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, is responsible for the scholarly inquiry into the life, works, culture, and influence of Montgomery.

Early life and education

thumb|Montgomery at the age of eight

Montgomery was born in New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. Her mother, Clara Woolner (née Macneill) Montgomery (1853–1876), died of tuberculosis (TB) when Maud was 21 months old. Stricken with grief, her father, Hugh John Montgomery (1841–1900), placed Maud in her maternal grandparents' custody, though he remained in the vicinity. When Maud was seven, her father moved to Prince Albert, North-West Territories (now Prince Albert, Saskatchewan). From then on Maud was raised by her grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolner Macneill, in the community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Montgomery's early life in Cavendish was very lonely. Despite having relatives nearby, much of her childhood was spent alone. She created imaginary friends and worlds to cope with her loneliness, and Montgomery credited this time of her life with developing her creativity. Her imaginary friends were named Katie Maurice and Lucy Gray and lived in the "fairy room" behind the bookcase in the drawing room. During a church service, Montgomery asked her aunt where her dead mother was, leading her to point upwards. Montgomery saw a trap door in the church's ceiling, which led her to wonder why the minister did not just get a ladder to retrieve her mother from the church's ceiling.

In 1887, at age 13, Montgomery wrote in her diary that she had "early dreams of future fame." She submitted a poem for publication, writing, "I saw myself the wonder of my schoolmates— a little local celebrity." Upon rejection, Montgomery wrote, "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." She later wrote, "down, deep down under all the discouragement and rebuff, I knew I would 'arrive' someday."

After completing her education in Cavendish, Montgomery spent one year (1890) in Prince Albert with her father and her stepmother, Mary Ann McRae (1863–1910), who had married in 1887. While she was in Prince Albert, Montgomery's first work, a poem titled "On Cape LeForce", was published in the Charlottetown paper The Daily Patriot. She was as excited about this as she was about her return to Prince Edward Island in 1891. Before returning to Cavendish, Montgomery had another article published in the newspaper, describing her visit to a First Nations camp on the Great Plains. She often saw Blackfeet and Plains Cree in Prince Albert, writing that she saw many Indians on the Prairies who were much more handsome and attractive than those she had seen in the Maritimes.

Montgomery's return to Cavendish was a great relief to her. Her time in Prince Albert was unhappy, for she did not get along with her stepmother. She wrote that she accepted his proposal out of a desire for "love and protection" and because she felt her prospects were rather poor. Montgomery came to dislike Simpson, whom she regarded as intolerably self-centred and vain to the point of feeling nauseated in his presence. While teaching in Lower Bedeque, she had a brief but passionate affair with Herman Leard, a member of the family with which she boarded. (Leard himself was engaged to neighbour Ettie Schurman while involved with Montgomery.) Of the men she loved, it was Leard she loved the most, writing in her diary: <blockquote>Hermann suddenly bent his head and his lips touched my face. I cannot tell what possessed me—I seemed swayed by a power utterly beyond my control—I turned my head—our lips met in one long passionate pressure—a kiss of fire and rapture such I had never experienced or imagined. Ed's kisses at the best left me cold as ice—Hermann's sent flame through every fibre of my being.</blockquote> On April 8, 1898, 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". She then wrote: <blockquote>If I had—or rather if I could have—kept this resolve I would have saved myself incalculable suffering. For it was but a few days later that I found myself face to face with the burning consciousness that I loved Herman Leard with a wild, passionate, unreasoning love that dominated my entire being and possessed me like a flame—a love I could neither quell nor control—a love that in its intensity seemed little short of absolute madness. Madness! Yes!</blockquote> In Victorian Canada, premarital sex was rare for women, and Montgomery had been brought up in a strict Presbyterian household where she had been taught that all who "fornicated" were among the "damned" who burned in Hell forever, a message she had taken to heart. Despite this, she often invited Leard into her bedroom when everybody else was out, and though she refused to have sex with him, as she wanted to be a virgin bride, she and Leard engaged in kissing and "preliminary lovemaking". Montgomery called Leard in her diary only "a very nice, attractive young animal!", albeit one with "magnetic blue eyes".

Following objections from her family and friends that Leard was not "good enough" for her, Montgomery broke off her relationship with him. He died shortly afterwards of the flu. In 1898, after much unhappiness and disillusionment, Montgomery broke off her engagement to Simpson. She ceased to seek romantic love. Montgomery was greatly upset when she learned of Leard's death in June 1899, writing in her diary: "It is easier to think him as dead, mine, all mine in death, as he could never be in life, mine when no other women could ever lie on his heart or kiss his lips."

In 1898, Montgomery moved back to Cavendish to live with her widowed grandmother. For a nine-month period between 1901 and 1902, she worked in Halifax as a substitute proofreader for the newspapers Morning Chronicle and The Daily Echo.</blockquote> Despite her feeling the story of Anne Shirley had run its course, in 1912 she 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 of her life.

In contrast to this publisher's ideal image of her, Montgomery wrote in a letter to a friend: "I am frankly in literature to make a living out of it." The British scholar Faye Hammill noted that in the books Anne is a tall girl and Montgomery was 37 at the time, which hardly made for a "young school teacher". Hammill also noted that the author of the piece chose to present Montgomery as the idealized female author, who was happiest in a domestic/rural environment and disliked fame and celebrity, which was seen at the time as conflicting with femininity. In emphasizing Montgomery's modesty and desire to remain anonymous, the author was portraying her as the ideal woman writer, who wanted to preserve her femininity by not embarking on a professional career, writing only a part-time job at best. At the same time, Hammill noted that the author was using the anachronistic French name for Prince Edward Island, to add to the picture of a romantic, mist-shrouded fantasy island where the old ways of life continued "unspoiled", just as Montgomery was portrayed as an "unspoiled" woman.

Shortly after her grandmother's death in 1911, Montgomery married Ewen (spelled in her notes and letters as "Ewan") Macdonald (1870–1943), a Presbyterian minister, However, in September 2008, her granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, revealed that Montgomery suffered from depression&mdash;possibly as a result of caring for her mentally ill husband for decades&mdash;and may have ended her life through a drug overdose.

A note was found on Montgomery's bedside table, which read, in part:

<blockquote>

... I have lost my mind by spells and I do not dare think what I may do in those spells. May God forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive me even if they cannot understand. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end to a life in which I tried always to do my best.

</blockquote>

An alternative explanation of this document is provided in Mary Henley Rubio's 2008 biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings, which suggests that Montgomery may have intended it as an entry in part of a journal now lost, rather than a suicide note.

Her major collections (including personal journals, photographs, needlework, two book manuscripts, and her personal library) are archived in the McLaughlin Library's Archival and Special Collections at the University of Guelph.

The first biography of Montgomery was The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery (1975), written by Mollie Gillen. Dr. Gillen also discovered over 40 of Montgomery's letters to her pen-friend George Boyd MacMillan in Scotland and used them as the basis for her work. Beginning in the 1980s, her complete journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, were published by the Oxford University Press. From 1988 to 1995, editor Rea Wilmshurst collected and published numerous short stories by Montgomery. Most of her essays, along with interviews with Montgomery, commentary on her work, and coverage of her death and funeral, appear in Benjamin Lefebvre's The L. M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print (2013). The British public ranked it number 41 among all novels in The Big Read, a 2003 BBC survey to determine the "nation's best-loved novel." The British scholar Faye Hammill observed that Montgomery as an author is overshadowed by her creation; licence plates on Prince Edward Island bear the slogan "P.E.I. Home of Anne of Green Gables" rather than "P.E.I. Birthplace of L.M Montgomery. Much to Montgomery's own annoyance, the media in both the United States and Canada tried to project the personality of Anne Shirley onto her.

Landmarked places

Montgomery's home, the Leaskdale Manse in Ontario, including the area surrounding Green Gables, and her Cavendish home on Prince Edward Island, have both been designated National Historic Sites. Montgomery herself was designated a Person of National Historic Significance by the Government of Canada in 1943.

Bala's Museum in Bala, Ontario, is a house museum established in 1992. Officially it is "Bala's Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery", for Montgomery and her family ate their meals in the boarding house while staying at another boarding house nearby during a July 1922 holiday that inspired her novel The Blue Castle (1926). The museum hosts some events pertaining to Montgomery or her fiction, including a re-enactment of the holiday visit.

Honours and awards

Montgomery was honoured by King George V as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1935 Birthday Honours; there were no Canadian orders, decorations or medals for civilians until the 1970s.

Montgomery was named a National Historic Person in 1943 by the Canadian federal government. Her Ontario residence was designated a National Historic Site in 1997 (Leaskdale Manse), while the place that inspired her famous novels, Green Gables, was formally recognized as "L. M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site" in 2004.

On May 15, 1975, the Post Office Department issued a stamp to "Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables" designed by Peter Swan and typographed by Bernard N. J. Reilander. The 8¢ stamps are perforated 13 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.

A pair of stamps was issued in 2008 by Canada Post, marking the centennial of the publication of Montgomery's classic first novel.

The City of Toronto named a park for her (Lucy Maud Montgomery Park) and in 1983 placed a historical marker there near the house where she lived from 1935 until her death in 1942.

On November 30, 2015 (her 141st birthday), Google honoured Montgomery with a Google Doodle published in twelve countries.

The Royal Canadian Mint issued a commemorative loonie to celebrate Montgomery's 150th birthday. The coin features artwork by Brenda Jones of Montgomery and Anne Shirley, Montgomery's most famous character. The coin was unveiled June 26, 2024 and began circulation on June 27, 2024.

Disputes over royalties intellectual property rights

There have been multiple adaptations of Montgomery's work. Television producer Kevin Sullivan negotiated permission with Montgomery's heirs prior to producing the popular 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, and several sequels, only to have multiple legal disputes with them.

Alison Louder portrays Montgomery in episode 12 of season 9 "Unlucky In Love" (February 1, 2016) and in episode 3 of season 16 "The Write Stuff" (September 26, 2022) of the Canadian television period detective series Murdoch Mysteries. Writer Candace Amarante voiced L.M. Montgomery for 5 episodes of the podcast mini-series Story Girl: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, produced by Knockabout Media and distributed by Acast (December 26, 2024).

Works

Novels

Anne of Green Gables series

thumb|right|Title page of the 1908 first edition of Anne of Green Gables

  1. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
  2. Anne of Avonlea (1909)
  3. Anne of the Island (1915)
  4. Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
  5. Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
  6. Anne of Ingleside (1939)
  7. Rainbow Valley (1919)
  8. Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
  9. The Blythes Are Quoted (2009)
  • Twice Upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939 (2022)

Emily trilogy

  1. Emily of New Moon (1923)
  2. Emily Climbs (1925)
  3. Emily's Quest (1927)

Pat of Silver Bush

  1. Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
  2. Mistress Pat (1935)

The Story Girl

  1. The Story Girl (1911)
  2. The Golden Road (1913)

Standalone novels

  • Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
  • The Blue Castle (1926)
  • Magic for Marigold (1929)
  • A Tangled Web (1931)
  • Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

Short story collections

  • Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
  • "The Hurrying of Ludovic"
  • "Old Lady Lloyd"
  • "Each In His Own Tongue"
  • "Little Joscelyn"
  • "The Winning of Lucinda"
  • "Old Man Shaw's Girl"
  • "Aunt Olivia's Beau"
  • "Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's"
  • "Pa Sloane's Purchase"
  • "The Courting of Prissy Strong"
  • "The Miracle at Carmody"
  • "The End of a Quarrel"
  • Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
  • "Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat"
  • "The Materializing of Cecil"
  • "Her Father's Daughter"
  • "Jane's Baby"
  • "The Dream-Child"
  • "The Brother Who Failed"
  • "The Return of Hester"
  • "The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily"
  • "Sara's Way"
  • "The Son of his Mother"
  • "The Education of Betty"
  • "In Her Selfless Mood"
  • "The Conscience Case of David Bell"
  • "Only a Common Fellow"
  • "Tannis of the Flats"
  • The Road to Yesterday (1974)
  • "An Afternoon With Mr. Jenkins"
  • "Retribution"
  • "The Twins Pretend"
  • "Fancy's Fool"
  • "A Dream Come True"
  • "Penelope Struts Her Theories"
  • "The Reconciliation"
  • "The Cheated Child"
  • "Fool's Errand"
  • "The Pot and the Kettle"
  • "Here Comes the Bride"
  • "Brother Beware"
  • "The Road to Yesterday"
  • "A Commonplace Woman"
  • The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories, selected by Catherine McLay (1979)
  • "Kismet"
  • "Emily's Husband"
  • "The Girl and the Wild Race"
  • "The Promise of Mary Ellen"
  • "The Parting of the Ways"
  • "The Doctor's Sweetheart"
  • "By Grace of Julius Caesar"
  • "Akin to Love"
  • "The Finished Story"
  • "My Lady Jane"
  • "Abel and His Great Adventure"
  • "The Garden of Spices"
  • "The Bride is Waiting"
  • "I Know a Secret"
  • Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1988)
  • "Charlotte's Quest"
  • "Marcella's Reward"
  • "An Invitation Given on Impulse"
  • "Freda's Adopted Grave"
  • "Ted's Afternoon Off"
  • "The Girl Who Drove the Cows"
  • "Why Not Ask Miss Price?"
  • "Jane Lavinia"
  • "The Running Away of Chester"
  • "Millicent's Double"
  • "Penelope's Party Waist"
  • "The Little Black Doll"
  • "The Fraser Scholarship"
  • "Her Own People"
  • "Miss Sally's Company"
  • "The Story of an Invitation"
  • "The Softening of Miss Cynthia"
  • "Margaret's Patient"
  • "Charlotte's Ladies"
  • Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1989)
  • "The Magical Bond of the Sea"
  • "The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse"
  • "Mackereling Out in the Gulf"
  • "Fair Exchange and No Robbery"
  • "Natty of Blue Point"
  • "The Light on the Big Dipper"
  • "An Adventure on Island Rock"
  • "How Don Was Saved"
  • "A Soul That Was Not at Home"
  • "Four Winds"
  • "A Sandshore Wooing"
  • "The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar"
  • "A Strayed Allegiance"
  • "The Waking of Helen"
  • "Young Si"
  • "A House Divided Against Itself"
  • Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1990)
  • After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1991)
  • Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1993)
  • At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1994)
  • Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1995)
  • Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1995)
  • The Blythes Are Quoted, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre (2009) (companion book to Rilla of Ingleside)
  • Modern Heroines: Selected Short Stories, edited by Silvery Books (2023)

Short stories by chronological order

  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1896 to 1901 (2008)
  • "A Case of Trespass" (1897)
  • "A Christmas Inspiration" (1901)
  • "A Christmas Mistake" (1899)
  • "A Strayed Allegiance" (1897)
  • "An Invitation Given on Impulse" (1900)
  • "Detected by the Camera" (1897)
  • "In Spite of Myself" (1896)
  • "Kismet" (1899)
  • "Lillian's Business Venture" (1900)
  • "Miriam's Lover" (1901)
  • "Miss Calista's Peppermint Bottle" (1900)
  • "The Jest that Failed" (1901)
  • "The Pennington's Girl" (1900)
  • "The Red Room" (1898)
  • "The Setness of Theodosia" (1901)
  • "The Story of An Invitation" (1901)
  • "The Touch of Fate" (1899)
  • "The Waking of Helen" (1901)
  • "The Way of the Winning of Anne" (1899)
  • "Young Si" (1901)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1902 to 1903 (2008)
  • "A Patent Medicine Testimonial" (1903)
  • "A Sandshore Wooing" (1903)
  • "After Many Days" (1903)
  • "An Unconventional Confidence" (1903)
  • "Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket" (1903)
  • "Davenport's Story" (1902)
  • "Emily's Husband" (1903)
  • "Min" (1903)
  • "Miss Cordelia's Accommodation" (1903)
  • "Ned's Stroke of Business" (1903)
  • "Our Runaway Kite" (1903)
  • "The Bride Roses" (1903)
  • "The Josephs' Christmas" (1902)
  • "The Magical Bond of the Sea" (1903)
  • "The Martyrdom of Estella" (1902)
  • "The Old Chest at Wyther Grange" (1903)
  • "The Osborne's Christmas" (1903)
  • "The Romance of Aunt Beatrice" (1902)
  • "The Running Away of Chester" (1903)
  • "The Strike at Putney" (1903)
  • "The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar" (1903)
  • "Why Mr. Cropper Changed His Mind" (1903)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1904 (2008)
  • "A Fortunate Mistake" (1904)
  • "An Unpremeditated Ceremony" (1904)
  • "At the Bay Shore Farm" (1904)
  • "Elizabeth's Child" (1904)
  • "Freda's Adopted Grave" (1904)
  • "How Don Was Saved" (1904)
  • "Miss Madeline's Proposal" (1904)
  • "Miss Sally's Company" (1904)
  • "Mrs. March's Revenge" (1904)
  • "Nan" (1904)
  • "Natty of Blue Point" (1904)
  • "Penelope's Party Waist" (1904)
  • "The Girl and The Wild Race" (1904)
  • "The Promise of Lucy Ellen" (1904)
  • "The Pursuit of the Ideal" (1904)
  • "The Softening of Miss Cynthia" (1904)
  • "Them Notorious Pigs" (1904)
  • "Why Not Ask Miss Price?" (1904)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1905 to 1906 (2008)
  • "A Correspondence and a Climax" (1905)
  • "An Adventure on Island Rock" (1906)
  • "At Five O'Clock in the Morning" (1905)
  • "Aunt Susanna's Birthday Celebration" (1905)
  • "Bertie's New Year" (1905)
  • "Between the Hill and the Valley" (1905)
  • "Clorinda's Gifts" (1906)
  • "Cyrilla's Inspiration" (1905)
  • "Dorinda's Desperate Deed" (1906)
  • "Her Own People" (1905)
  • [1905 to 1906, continued]
  • "Ida's New Year Cake" (1905)
  • "In the Old Valley" (1906)
  • "Jane Lavinia" (1906)
  • "Mackereling Out in the Gulf" (1905)
  • "Millicent's Double " (1905)
  • "The Blue North Room" (1906)
  • "The Christmas Surprise At Enderly Road" (1905)
  • "The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby" (1906)
  • "The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner" (1906)
  • "The Fraser Scholarship" (1905)
  • "The Girl at the Gate" (1906)
  • "The Light on the Big Dipper" (1906)
  • "The Prodigal Brother" (1906)
  • "The Redemption of John Churchill" (1906)
  • "The Schoolmaster's Letter" (1905)
  • "The Story of Uncle Dick" (1906)
  • "The Understanding of Sister Sara" (1905)
  • "The Unforgotten One" (1906)
  • "The Wooing of Bessy" (1906)
  • "Their Girl Josie " (1906)
  • "When Jack and Jill Took a Hand" (1905)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1907 to 1908 (2008)
  • "A Millionaire's Proposal" (1907)
  • "A Substitute Journalist" (1907)
  • "Anna's Love Letters" (1908)
  • "Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress" (1907)
  • "Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner" (1907)
  • "By Grace of Julius Caesar" (1908)
  • "By the Rule of Contrary" (1908)
  • "Fair Exchange and No Robbery " (1907)
  • "Four Winds" (1908)
  • "Marcella's Reward" (1907)
  • "Margaret's Patient" (1908)
  • "Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves" (1908)
  • "Missy's Room" (1907)
  • "Ted's Afternoon Off" (1907)
  • "The Girl Who Drove the Cows" (1908)
  • "The Doctor's Sweetheart" (1908)
  • "The End of the Young Family Feud" (1907)
  • "The Genesis of the Doughnut Club" (1907)
  • "The Growing Up of Cornelia" (1908)
  • "The Old Fellow's Letter " (1907)
  • "The Parting of the Ways" (1907)
  • "The Promissory Note" (1907)
  • "The Revolt of Mary Isabel" (1908)
  • "The Twins and a Wedding" (1908)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1909 to 1922 (2008)
  • "A Golden Wedding" (1909)
  • "A Redeeming Sacrifice" (1909)
  • "A Soul that Was Not At Home" (1915)
  • "Abel And His Great Adventure" (1917)
  • "Akin to Love" (1909)
  • "Aunt Philippa and the Men" (1915)
  • "Bessie's Doll" (1914)
  • "Charlotte's Ladies" (1911)
  • "Christmas at Red Butte " (1909)
  • "How We Went to the Wedding" (1913)
  • "Jessamine" (1909)
  • "Miss Sally's Letter" (1910)
  • "My Lady Jane" (1915)
  • "Robert Turner's Revenge" (1909)
  • "The Fillmore Elderberries" 1909)
  • "The Finished Story" (1912)
  • "The Garden of Spices" (1918)
  • "The Girl and the Photograph" (1915)
  • "The Gossip of Valley View" (1910)
  • "The Letters" (1910)
  • "The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse" (1909)
  • "The Little Black Doll" (1909)
  • "The Man on the Train" (1914)
  • "The Romance of Jedediah" (1912)
  • "The Tryst of the White Lady" (1922)
  • "The Chivers Light" (1924)
  • "Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner" (1910)
  • "White Magic" (1921)

Poetry

  • The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
  • The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (1987)
  • A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 (The L. M. Montgomery Library, 2019, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre)

Non-fiction

  • Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)
  • A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 (The L. M. Montgomery Library, 2018)

Journals, letters, and essays

  • The Green Gables Letters from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909 (1960), edited by Wilfrid Eggleston
  • The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1974; originally published in Everywoman's World in 1917)
  • My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery (1980), edited by Francis W.P. Bolger and Elizabeth R. Epperly
  • The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery (5 vols., 1985–2004), edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
  • The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889–1900 (2012), edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
  • The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901–1911 (2013), edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
  • The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print (2013), edited by Benjamin Lefebvre
  • L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1911–1917 (2016), edited by Jen Rubio
  • L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1918–1921 (2017), edited by Jen Rubio
  • L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1922–1925 (2018), with a preface by Jen Rubio
  • L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1926–1929 (2017), edited by Jen Rubio
  • L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1930–1933 (2019), edited by Jen Rubio

Bilingual editions

  • Diese verdammten Sauen / Them Notorious Pigs. Calambac Publishing House, Germany 2023, bilingual edition: English/German, ISBN 978-3-943117-24-0.

Notes and references

Notes

References

Bibliography

  • L. M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911–1942. Edited by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement (2015). McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery at The Canadian Encyclopedia

Works

  • Works by L M Montgomery at Project Gutenberg Australia
  • LM Montgomery Archive at the University of Guelph.
  • Selected Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery at Representative Poetry Online, managed by the University of Toronto Libraries

Organizations

  • The Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario
  • L.M. Montgomery Institute managed by the University of Prince Edward Island.
  • L. M. Montgomery Research Centre