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L.M. Montgomery


Born
in Clifton (New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada
November 30, 1874

Died
April 24, 1942

Genre

Influences


Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.

Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

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Quotes by L.M. Montgomery  (?)
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“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Polls

January 2016 New School Group Read

1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 366 pages
 
  22 votes, 15.4%

 
  21 votes, 14.7%

1915, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 201 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.1%

 
  12 votes, 8.4%

1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.4%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.4%

 
  11 votes, 7.7%

1999, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, 617 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.9%

 
  7 votes, 4.9%

 
  7 votes, 4.9%

 
  7 votes, 4.9%

1984, The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 450 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.5%

 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1926, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1957, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 246 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

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