Spring in Rainbow Valley
I spent last weekend in Prince Edward Island and one of the books I read was L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley, …
Category Archives: L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery and the Halifax Public Gardens
“She’ll feel awful bad if her flowers get frosted, especially them dahlias. Octavia sets such store by her dahlias.” In …
October at Ingleside
“It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” I, too, am “glad I live …
Anne’s House of Dreams and the “great Canadian novel”
“Young Dr. Blythe” is a very busy man and he’s often away from the little white house he and Anne …
Anne Shirley’s Ambitions
I’ve always loved the image of the “bend in the road” that appears in the final chapter of L.M. Montgomery’s …
“It’s good to be alive and to be going home”
In Anne of Green Gables, after a trip to Charlottetown, Anne and Diana return home to Avonlea along the north …
Five Years!
Jane Austen’s letters, her novels Emma and Persuasion, the virtue of charity, the history of Nova Scotia, and the composition …
Birthday “Coincidences” in Emma and Anne of Green Gables
Harriet Smith is delighted by the idea that Robert Martin’s birthday is just two weeks and a day before her …
Anne and Gilbert After the Happy Ending
I didn’t like Anne of Windy Poplars when I was ten and I don’t like it now. I remember disliking …
The Secret Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey
For more than a year now, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have been writing about friendships between women writers …
