| Lucy Maud Montgomery Contributor(s): Gillen, Mollie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550414615 ISBN-13: 9781550414615 Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: Lucy Maud Montgomery is known to millions of readers the world over as the creator of Canada_s most famous redhead, Anne of Green Gables. Born in the tiny Prince Edward Island village of Clifton in 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in the seaside community of Cavendish on the north shore of the island. Opportunities for women were limited in the rural Victorian society of the time, but Lucy Maud showed an unusually independent turn of character by trying her hand first as a teacher and then as a journalist in Halifax before returning to the isolation of Cavendish to care for her widowed grandmother. It was during these thirteen long years that she wrote "Anne of Green Gables" and established herself as Canada_s most popular and widely-read author. In 1911 she married Presbyterian minister Ewan Macdonald and moved to Ontario. Her spiritual home remained Prince Edward Island, however, and she continued to write of it with nostalgic fondness until her death in 1942. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Canadians |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6.7" W x 8.49" (0.26 lbs) 64 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 51957 Reading Level: 7.4 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lucy Maud Montgomery is known to millions of readers the world over as the creator of Canada's most famous redhead, Anne of Green Gables. Born in the tiny Prince Edward Island village of Clifton in 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in the seaside community of Cavendish on the north shore of the island. Opportunities for women were limited in the rural Victorian society of the time, but Lucy Maud showed an unusually independent turn of character by trying her hand first as a teacher and then as a journalist in Halifax before returning to the isolation of Cavendish to care for her widowed grandmother. It was during these thirteen long years that she wrote Anne of Green Gables and established herself as Canada's most popular and widely-read author. In 1911 she married Presbyterian minister Ewan Macdonald and moved to Ontario. Her spiritual home remained Prince Edward Island, however, and she continued to write of it with nostalgic fondness until her death in 1942. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gillen, Mollie: - Mollie Gillen |