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This page is dedicated to Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942). It describes her life and her writings. It also depicts of my love for Anne and for Prince Edward Island, Canada where she was born and raised.
Although Anne of Green Gables has put PEI and Montgomery on the map, this page will focus mostly on other books written by her.
Her other books include (in no particular order)
These include, in no particular order:
Meet Patricia Gardiner. She resides in a house named Silver Bush, in PEI. One of Maud Montgomery's later books, Pat is a young child with the old fear of change. First there was an addition to the family. Then there was school. She manages to survive the ordeal more or less intact. She also meets Hilary "Jingle" Gordon one evening when she lost her way home. The two of them become bosum buddies, catching moonrises at night, looking after various pets, leaving a dish of milk for the fairies that occupy the night skies.
Patricia Gardiner, who most of you have met in Pat of Silver Bush, is growing up and finding the world is going much too fast for her tastes. Silver Bush is no longer a place of residence but it practically becomes an obsession with Pat. Betsy, her best friend, had died in the previous novel. Hilary "Jingle" Gordon has moved out of PEI to study architecture. Both characters had provided Pat with some perspective in her life. Who would provide such a thing now that they are both, for all intents and purposes, out of the picture?
The story of A Tangled Web is based on an inheritance of one Harriet Dark, a large nineteenth century jug. In the possession of one Aunt Becky Dark, she has decided to play a little with the rest of the Dark/Penhallow clan to see who should "earn the right" to ownership of this precious heirloom. Everyone wants the jug, for reasons best known to themselves. Personally, I could never figure out some of their reasonings. But, then again, I am not in line for any antique artifact.
Jane of Lantern Hill is a story of love gone awry. Robin Kennedy Stuart lives in Toronto, on a street ironically named Gay Street, with her grandmother, her aunt and her daughter, Jane Victoria. Andrew Stuart lives in Prince Edward Island with his sister Irene close by. The threesome were a happy family for about three years, then the *family relations* who never thought much of the marriage began their own campaign to keep the two lovers apart. Jane, caught in the middle, loves her mother, (but hates St. Agatha's and Toronto), loves "dad" and Lantern Hill. The tug-of-war between the Stuarts in PEI and the Kennedys in Toronto comes to a head one rainy night in March.
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