The Last Phone Booth
When I read about the “world’s smallest Austen museum” in a red telephone box in Steventon, Hampshire, in a recent …
Tag Archives: Anne of Green Gables
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 …
Teenaged Gothic Daydreams: Coming of Age in Northanger Abbey
Gisèle M. Baxter’s teaching and research interests include the Gothic inheritance, especially in Victorian/neo-Victorian literature and popular culture, dystopian and …
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. …
On Not Skipping from September to November
Inspired by Christy Ann Conlin’s guest post on “The Sweet Exhilaration of Solitude,” I spent some time in the Halifax …
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 …
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