Eight Years!
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
Category Archives: L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery’s Halifax: A Literary Soirée, June 18th
L.M. Montgomery lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when she was a student at Dalhousie University in 1895-96 and then when …
“Born again”: Valancy’s Journey from False Religion to True Faith
Here’s one more post on L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle before my new blog series on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey …
Valancy Stirling’s Inner Life
My sister Bethie Baxter objects to my criticism of Valancy Stirling’s lack of ambition. She read the blog post I …
“Going in for realities” in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle
“Valancy was in the midst of realities after a lifetime of unrealities,” writes L.M. Montgomery in her 1926 novel The …
Searching for Maud in the “Emily” Series
It’s a pleasure to introduce Melanie J. Fishbane’s guest post on L.M. Montgomery’s journals and her “Emily” books. Melanie is …
A Visit to Green Gables
I went to Prince Edward Island last weekend and visited Green Gables for the first time in a few years. …
An Invitation to Read The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s 1926 novel The Blue Castle this fall. Would anyone like to join me? When …
“She knew that a hard struggle was before her”: Emily’s Quest
At the beginning of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily’s Quest (1927), Emily Starr has “very clear-cut ideas of what she was going …
“I have to write”: Emily Climbs
In L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Climbs (1925), one of the novels Emily Starr reads is The Children of the Abbey (1796), …
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