News of her grandfather's death gave her an escape from this dilemma, and she returned to Cavendish to care for her grandmother" (p. 82). During the period from 1901 to 1911, Maud lived primarily with her grandmother; however, she left for short periods of time to work as a columnist and editor at the Halifax Daily Echo and to establish her career as a writer (Bloom). According to this biographer, "In 1906 she became engaged to Ewan MacDonald, a minister at the Cavendish Presbyterian church, despite her distaste for the life of a minister's wife and her lack of passion for Ewan; she convinced him to postpone the wedding until after her grandmother's death" (Bloom, p. 83). During this 5-year period, Maud was highly prolific and penned and then published her first and most popular novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), along with three sequels (Bloom). For example, Anne of the Island (1915), was one of the sequels to Anne of Green Gables series that was set around 1900 (Garvey, 1996). Anne of Green Gables was an enormous success and the popularity of the series has contributed to the appeal of her childhood home of Prince Edward Island as an international tourist destination (Merriman). As this biographer enthuses, "Now almost a century later her works remain in print and continue to inspire stage, television, and film adaptations" (Merriman, 2007, p. 2).

Besides writing books, Montgomery was also a contributor to periodicals such as "The Delineator." During the period 1894 through 1926, this was a magazine of "American Fashion" for the world and one of the "Big Six" women's magazines at the turn of the 20th century (Endres & Lueck, 1995). According to these authors, "The Delineator not only featured fashion, homemaking, and child care but also brought plays, theater, opera, literature, and poetry into the lives of its readership. Regular articles in the magazine published plays that women's clubs could produce, synopses of popular operas, and reports of women's literary clubs. The publication also conducted writing contests for aspiring writers" (p. 64).

A list of books written by Montgomery is provided in Table 1 below.

Table 1.

Books Written by L.M. Montgomery

Year/Title

1908 Anne of Green Gables

1909 Anne of Avonlea

1910 Kilmeny of the Orchard

1911 the Story Girl

1912 *Chronicles of Avonlea

1913 *the Golden Road

1915 *Anne of the...

She was a Canadian author most popularly known for her Anne of Green Gables series, but the research also showed that she was a prolific contributor to other publications such as "The Delineator" as well. While she is less well-known for these works, her biographers were consistent in emphasizing her contributions to and influences on modern Canadian literature, and her childhood home has become an international tourist destination due in large part to the descriptions she communicates in her Anne of Green Gables series. Over the years, tens of millions of young readers have enjoyed "Maud's" works over the years, and in the final analysis, it is reasonable to suggest that tens of millions more will be reading her Anne of Green Gables series in the years to come.
References

Bloom, H. (1998). Women writers of children's literature. Philadelphia: Chelsea House.

Endres, K.L. & Lueck, T.L. (1995). Women's periodicals in the United States: Consumer magazines. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Garvey, E.G. (1996). The adman in the parlor: Magazines and the gendering of consumer culture, 1880s to 1910s. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hardock, a. (2007). Lucy Maud Montgomery (Nov. 1874-1942). Uxbridge Online Inc. [Online]. Available: http://www.uxbridge.com/people/maud.html.

Merriman, C.D. (2007). Online Literature. [Online]. Available: http://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/.

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