A Tangled Web - Montgomery, Lucy Maud

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Biographie:
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), often published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist whose fiction made Prince Edward Island one of the most recognisable literary landscapes in children's literature. Born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, and raised largely in Cavendish, Montgomery drew on rural community life, school experience, family feeling, landscape, imagination, friendship, ambition, and the emotional life of girls and young women. Her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables introduced Anne Shirley and became an immediate and lasting success, leading to a sequence of Anne books and a wider body of fiction set in richly observed Canadian communities.Montgomery's achievement extends beyond the popularity of Anne herself. Her novels and stories combine humour, sentiment, social observation, romance, moral development, and a vivid sense of place, making them valuable both as beloved children's classics and as important works in Canadian literary history. Anne of Avonlea shows Montgomery's ability to let a character grow without losing the qualities readers first loved: Anne becomes a teacher and a more responsible young woman, but remains imaginative, fallible, affectionate, and alive to beauty. For readers of classic children's fiction, Canadian literature, girls' stories, school stories, and family reading, Montgomery remains an essential and highly discoverable author....

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The best-known works by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, also known by her pen as L M Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), include a number of novels, essays, short tales, and poems that began with Anne of Green Gables in 1908. Along with 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 articles, she also authored 20 novels. The novel Anne of Green Gables was an instant hit, and the titular character, the orphan Anne Shirley, helped make Lucy Maud Montgomery famous and earned her a global following. The majority of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and those parts of Canada's tiniest province-specifically, Green Gables farm, which served as the inspiration for Prince Edward Island National Park-became literary landmarks and well-liked tourist destinations. In 1935, she received the title of officer of the Order of the British Empire. Scholars and readers from all over the world have read and studied Montgomery's writings, journals, and correspondence. The University of Prince Edward Island's L. M. Montgomery Institute is in charge of doing academic research into L. M. Montgomery's life, works, culture, and influence. On November 30, 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island (now New London)....