The L.M. Montgomery Reader

Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.
Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades.
Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.

Acknowledgments
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Introduction: A Legacy in Review
Benjamin LefebvreA Note on the Text
1. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
2. Anne of Avonlea (1909)
3. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
4. The Story Girl (1911)
5. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
6. The Golden Road (1913)
7. Anne of the Island (1915)
8. The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
9. Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)
10. Rainbow Valley (1919)
11. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
12. Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
13. Emily of New Moon (1923)
14. Emily Climbs (1925)
15. The Blue Castle: A Novel (1926)
16. Emily’s Quest (1927)
17. Magic for Marigold (1929)
18. A Tangled Web/Aunt Becky Began It (1931)
19. Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
20. Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns Mckinley)
21. Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935)
22. Anne of Windy Poplars/Anne of Windy Willows (1936)
23. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
24. Anne of Ingleside (1939)
Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960–2013
Benjamin LefebvreSources
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