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: L.M. Montgomery
“Oh, novels! What would I do without you?”
Let’s read Jane of Lantern Hill! Thanks to everyone who commented—here, on social media, in letters and emails, and in …
Reading L.M. Montgomery Together
Would you like to read one (or two) of L.M. Montgomery’s novels with my friend Naomi and me? As I …
Summer
Here are some of the pictures I took this summer in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On …
Eight Years!
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
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 …
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