The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1900-1911

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Mary Henley Rubio (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Guelph) Elizabeth Hillman Waterston (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Guelph)

The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery

The PEI Years, 1900-1911

Mary Henley Rubio (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Guelph), Elizabeth Hillman Waterston (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Guelph)

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Oxford University Press, Canada
09 November 2017

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Children's literature studies: general

Series: L M Montgomery Journals

L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) had begun keeping a private journal before she turned fifteen. From 1918 onward, she had carefully copied out her entries. She intended this detailed life record to be published posthumously. Montgomery's long-hidden version of her early life emerged as the bestselling Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volumes I-V, first published in 1985. Twenty-five years ago, it seemed prudent to offer a tightly organized book with a strong central narrative, but this decision meant setting aside many entries on her personal tastes, her effusions over landscape, and her increasing bouts of depression. L.M. Montgomery's record of her life is published now for the first time without abridgement. The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The P.E.I. Years, 1889-1900 was published in early 2012 to much acclaim. This second book, covering the years 1901 to 1911, continues to provide a more comprehensive portrait of Montgomery's life in PEI than has ever been available before.

This publication covers Montgomery's early adult years, including her work as a newspaper editor in Halifax, Nova Scotia; her publishing career taking flight; the death of her grandmother; and her forthcoming marriage to a local clergyman. It also documents her own reflections on writing, her increasingly problematic mood swings and feelings of isolation, and her changing relationship with the world around her, particularly that of Prince Edward Island.

Available for the first time in paperback, this new edition recreates the format Montgomery herself devised. Over 300 of her photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and professional portraits are reproduced, all with Montgomery's original placement and captions.

By: Mary Henley Rubio (Professor Emerita Professor Emerita University of Guelph), Elizabeth Hillman Waterston (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Guelph)
Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780199029655
ISBN 10: 0199029652
Series: L M Montgomery Journals
Pages: 444
Publication Date: 09 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Henley Rubio is professor emerita at the University of Guelph. Her biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings (Doubleday, 2008) was nominated for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and has successfully sold across the world. Rubio's other publications include co-editing with Elizabeth Hillman Waterston five volumes of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery (Oxford University Press, 1985-2005). Elizabeth Hillman Waterston, FRCS, O.Ont., is professor emerita at the University of Guelph. Her critical work, Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery (Oxford, 2008), considers all of Montgomery's novels in the context of a richly textured imaginative landscape. Other books by Waterston include Rapt in Plaid: Canadian Literature and the Scottish Tradition (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Children's Literature in Canada (Simon & Schuster, 1992), as well as two recent novels: Passion Spent (Lulu, 2007) and At the Corner of Hope (Borealis, 2008).