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L.M. Montgomery


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

Died
April 24, 1942

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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.

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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“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

December 2015 New School Classics Group Read

 
  24 votes, 18.5%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  17 votes, 13.1%

 
  15 votes, 11.5%

 
  13 votes, 10.0%

 
  11 votes, 8.5%

 
  7 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

 
  5 votes, 3.8%

1974, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, 144 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

1935, BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, 256 pages
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

 
  3 votes, 2.3%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.8%

1974, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 267 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.8%

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