Canada - Part Ten: Creating a Children's Classic - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Reblogged from Sisters of The Bruce:

No one was more surprised than Canadian writer, Lucy MaudMontgomery, when her children's tale, Anne of Green Gables,became an internationalbest seller.

Maud, as she liked to be called, had been earning money from her articles and poems, selling them to various papers and publishing houses. She held no illusions about the quality of her writing, but simply loved to write and to bring the characters fromher vivid imagination, alive and kicking onto the page.

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