Children's Fiction Girls & Women
Emily of New Moon
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Girls & Women
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781551092393
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $2.99
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, in 1874. Her most famous book, Anne of Green Gables, was first published in Boston in 1908 and enjoyed immediate success.
About the author
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, in 1874. After the death of her mother in 1876, Montgomery was raised by her maternal grandparents in the nearby community of Cavendish. She received a teaching certificate in 1894, and studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1895. After a brief career as a teacher at various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish in 1898. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald and moved to Leaskdale, Ontario, where Macdonald was minister in the Presbyterian Church. A prolific writer, she published a number of short stories, poems, and novels, but is best known for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla Of Ingleside. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried in her beloved Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.