L.M. Montgomery

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born

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

died

April 24, 1942

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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

The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.

Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 351,847 ratings · 13,892 reviews · 107 distinct works

	Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery, Jennifer Lee Carrell (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 4.21 avg rating — 117,331 ratings — published 1908 — 474 editions	My rating:
	Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 33,386 ratings — published 1909 — 213 editions	My rating:
	Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 23,308 ratings — published 1915 — 174 editions	My rating:
	Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5) 4.05 avg rating — 16,748 ratings — published 1910 — 144 editions	My rating:
	Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 13,908 ratings — published 1939 — 50 editions	My rating:
	Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8) 4.07 avg rating — 10,602 ratings — published 1921 — 99 editions	My rating:
	Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7) 3.92 avg rating — 10,524 ratings — published 1919 — 99 editions	My rating:
	Emily of New Moon (Emily of New Moon, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 8,905 ratings — published 1923 — 45 editions	My rating:
	The Blue Castle 4.22 avg rating — 5,555 ratings — published 1926 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Emily Climbs (Emily, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 5,146 ratings — published 1925 — 27 editions	My rating:

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Series by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables (8 books)
by L.M. Montgomery

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Emily of New Moon (3 books)
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The Story Girl (2 books)
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Pat of Silver Bush (2 books)
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Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

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

tags: beginnings , fresh-start , inspirational , mistake , mistakes , new-day , start-over , tomorrow

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

tags: happiness

961 people liked it

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: mistakes

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