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L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years 1911-1917
L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years 1911-1917 | Jen Rubio
The years following L.M. Montgomery's departure from Prince Edward Island were among the most eventful of her life. She travelled in England and Scotland on her honeymoon; she began her new role of minister's wife in Leaskdale, Ontario; she gave birth three times; and, in August 1914, she watched Canada go to war. The original publication of Montgomery's journals in 1987 contained only a selection of her entries. Published now for the first time ever is the full record from 1911 to 1917, a wonderful account of the small and the large, the tragic and the funny. She delights in the birth of her first son. A second baby, however, is stillborn on the eve of war. By the time her third is born, war has become a disquieting reality, with local boys dying overseas. This edition includes all of Montgomery's original photographs, many of which have never been published. The hundreds of annotations, completely new and exclusive to this edition, incorporate the most up-to-date historical thinking. A new preface by historian Jonathan F. Vance is lively and insightful. Montgomery's record of global war and politics is fascinating; she would draw on it later in writing her novel Rilla of Ingleside, available in a newly annotated edition from Rock's Mills Press. Another new Rock's Mills Press title, Readying Rilla, reveals how Montgomery crafted and revised her work.
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#BookMail! Volume 3 of LMM‘s complete journals arrived today, and I spent some time happily planning out the next few months of the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead, figuring out where #LMMReread and #LMMAdjacent books should fall, which adjacent reads to include, and scoping out an LMM Christmas plan! 🎉 More details soon 😊

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! When did we even originally start with our Kindred Spirits reads? You would think I would be burned out on LMM by now, but I have just so thoroughly enjoyed exploring one author and her works so completely. 3mo
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks We started in October 2020!! I‘ve really enjoyed this deep dive, too. (Well, obviously or I wouldn‘t keep it going 😂) It‘s been such fun reading along with you and the group! 3mo
TheAromaofBooks We may need a four-year anniversary party! 😂 I can't believe it's been that long!! 3mo
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I know, right?! Maybe I should host an Anne-themed swap or something! 3mo
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