The Canadians - Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Mollie Gillen

Biography of LM Montgomery that would be useful in the classroom level. Larger print, lots of illustrations and photographs. 63 pages

Soft cover

The Years before Anne

by Francis Bolger

Francis W.P. Bolger, Island historian has compiled an informative and complete picture of the fascinating life and brilliant career of Lucy Maud Montgomery, drawing on her scrapbooks, letters, diaries, photos and conversations with family members. 

Soft cover only.

Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery

by Alexandra Heilbron

Alexandra Heilbron uncovers a fascinating side of L. M. Montgomery.  She loving looks at the life of Prince Edward Islands most famous author.  This book includes many photos that have been published for the first time.

The Wheel of Things ~ A Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Mollie Gillen

Lucy Maud Montgomery is Canada's best-known writer of children's fiction. Anne of Green Gables— in print, film, television, on stage—captures people's imaginations as easily now as it did when it burst upon the world in 1908.

Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island and she set her best-loved stories there. She worked briefly as a journalist, but family responsibilities shaped her life as a young single woman. At 36 she married a dour, often depressive Presbyterian minister and moved to Ontario. There she lived a life of contradictions—in private, the romantic, successful imaginative writer; in public the strict, dutiful minister’s wife.

Using diaries and letters Lucy Maud never intended to be made public, The Wheel of Things is a pioneering biography of one of Canada's most successful and important writers. Since its publication, the release of Montgomery's diaries and other work by scholarly writers have confirmed the life story that Mollie Gillen tells so well in this important and path-breaking biography.

This book contains black and white photographs and has 204 Pages.  Paperback

Lucy Maud Montgomery "The Island Lady of Stories"  Soft cover

Interesting soft cover booklet from Prince Edward Island's Women's Institute.  Features information about LM Montgomery and also the words and music to 'The Island Hymn'.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, A Writer's Life

From Kids Can Press and written by Elizabeth MacLeod, this is a lovely book for kids and adults alike! Beautifully designed and illustrated, engaging for the children and interesting for adults. Did you know that in 1914 LMM made $12,000 in royalties from her books.   She earned the same amount that Canada's Prime Minister earned the same year! Measures 11.5 inches by 8.5 inches, is soft covered and has 32 pages.

The Green Gables Letters - Letters from LMM to Ephraim Weber 1905-1909

An interesting sequence of letters, written by L. M. Montgomery early in the century, was found in 1956 among the papers of Ephraim Weber who was living in the West.  Now lodged in the National Archives in Ottawa, the letters reproduced here exactly as they were written, form a fascinating footnote in the history of Canadian letters.

These letters are of interest and importance not only because they were written during the years of gestation and birth and outstanding success of the book  Anne of Green Gables, but also because they reveal a lively extrovert in an eminently healthy balance.  This is an absorbing book, for adults who have nostalgic memories of Anne, and for writers who need encouragement in their struggle for literary recognition or for anyone interested in the social mosaic of life in the early years of the 1900's.

Soft cover