Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While these works consisted primarily of poems and short stories, she also experimented with a wider range of forms, particularly during the early years of her career, at which point she tested out several authorial identities before settling on the professional moniker ""L.M. Montgomery.""
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 18911917 is the first in a series of volumes collecting Montgomery's extensive contributions to periodicals. Leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre discusses these so-called miscellaneous pieces in relation to the works of English-speaking women writers who preceded her and the strategies they used to succeed, including the decision to publish under gender-neutral signatures. Among the highlights of the volume are Montgomery's contributions to student periodicals, a weekly newspaper column entitled ""Around the Table,"" a long-lost story narrated first by a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and then by the man she wishes she had married instead, and a new edition of her 1917 celebrity memoir, ""The Alpine Path."" Drawing fascinating links to Montgomery's life writing, career, and fiction, this volume will offer scholars and readers alike an intriguing new look at the work of Canada's most enduringly popular author.
By:
L.M. Montgomery
Edited by:
Benjamin Lefebvre
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781487523084
ISBN 10: 1487523084
Series: The L.M. Montgomery Library
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 09 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface A Note on the Text Part 1: Early and Student Publications The Wreck of the ""Marco Polo"" A Western Eden From Prince Albert to P.E. Island The Usual Way Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse High School Life in Saskatchewan Valedictory ""Portia"" – A Study ""Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?"" Crooked Answers The Bad Boy of Blanktown School James Henry, Truant A Girl's Place at Dalhousie College To the Editor Part 2: Maud Montgomery, Newspaper Woman A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery Around the Table Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates Netted Doily Innocent Irreverence Part 3: The Upward Climb to Heights Sublime Two Sides of a Life Story The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Afterword Notes Bibliography Index"
Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Reviews for A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891-1917
In this first volume of `The L.M. Montgomery Library,' Benjamin Lefebvre collects and expertly annotates Montgomery's non-fiction periodical writing, presenting it as a record of her literary apprenticeship ... The thirty-five instalments of her column `Around the Table,' signed `Cynthia,' are enthralling, ... and A Name for Herself is worth the cover price for these pieces alone. -- Faye Hammill * Times Literary Supplement *
