Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables.
She was born at Clifton , Prince Edward Island. In 1911, after her marriage to the Rev. Ewen Macdonald, she moved to Leaskdale, Ontario , where she wrote close to a dozen books before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island .
Her major collections are archived at the University of Guelph, while the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute http://www.upei.ca/~lmmi/ at the University of Prince Edward Island coordinates most of the research and conferences surrounding her work. Volume 5 of her journals has just been published by Oxford University Press, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston.
Novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's works http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Montgomer
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- Little More Montgomery http://yukazine.com/lmm/e/index.html has information on the author's life in Ontario
- Anne in Japan FAQ 1.0 http://yukazine.com/lmm/e/AnneJapan.html provides basic information as to Montgomery's popularity in Japan.
- An L.M. Montgomery Resource Page http://www.tickledorange.com/LMM/index.html is an excellent collection.
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