The L.M. Montgomery Reader

Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

Benjamin Lefebvre

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University of Toronto Press
08 January 2015

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.

Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery's critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers' contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades.

Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.

By: Benjamin Lefebvre
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 830g
ISBN: 9781442644939
ISBN 10: 1442644931
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 08 January 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Legacy in Review Benjamin LefebvreA Note on the Text 1. Anne of Green Gables (1908) 2. Anne of Avonlea (1909) 3. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) 4. The Story Girl (1911) 5. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) 6. The Golden Road (1913) 7. Anne of the Island (1915) 8. The Watchman and Other Poems (1916) 9. Anne’s House of Dreams (1917) 10. Rainbow Valley (1919) 11. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) 12. Rilla of Ingleside (1921) 13. Emily of New Moon (1923) 14. Emily Climbs (1925) 15. The Blue Castle: A Novel (1926) 16. Emily’s Quest (1927) 17. Magic for Marigold (1929) 18. A Tangled Web/Aunt Becky Began It (1931) 19. Pat of Silver Bush (1933) 20. Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns Mckinley) 21. Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935) 22. Anne of Windy Poplars/Anne of Windy Willows (1936) 23. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) 24. Anne of Ingleside (1939) Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960–2013 Benjamin LefebvreSources Bibliography

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 The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

Now that it is complete, The L.M. Montgomery Reader is sure to be the authoritative source on Montgomery's critical and popular reception as a bestselling author. Benjamin Lefebvre has devoted many years to the Reader, and one cannot imagine anyone better suited for the work. -- Janice Fiamengo, Department of English, University of Ottawa Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship. -- Laurie Glenn Norris Saint John Telegraph-Journal Lefebvre has thoroughly mined earlier scholars' bibliographies and online newspaper archives to find reviews in periodicals from eight different countries, including the Bookman (London), the Globe (Toronto) and Vogue (New York)... Collectively, these reviews ... represent a superb barometer of [Montgomery's] fluctuating cultural value as a writer. -- Irene Gammel The Times Literary Supplement

Winner of PROSE Award for Literature awarded by Association of American Publishers 2016 (United States)
Winner of PROSE Awards: Language and Linguistics 2016
Winner of PROSE Awards: Language and Linguistics 2016.