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L.M. Montgomery
1,984 books13.4k followersLucy 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.
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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October 9, 2020
A golden story. Awww....
October 28, 2021
Of course and indeed, if a reader were to approach Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1909 A Golden Wedding (and which I first encountered in the edited by the late Rea Wilmshurst 1991 collection of quasi time themed Montgomery short stories titled After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed) expecting some nuanced and inherently philosophical tale, he or she could very likely be more than a bit textually disappointed. For with regard to L.M. Montgomery’s presented contents and themes, with her actual story, there is if truth be told honestly nothing all that textually deep and thought provoking to be seen in A Golden Wedding, with it just being a simple and also rather generic account of a man returning to his hometown after many years and thanking his now destitute foster family by buying back their foreclosed house, by paying their debts and thus rescuing them from the poorhouse.
However and in my opinion, one also does not always require one’s reading experiences and materials to be fundamentally enlightening and heavily nuanced, as well and definitely, sometimes just reading a short piece of fiction that is the epitome of tender sweetness and all things bright and beautiful is what is both wanted and required. And with this in mind, A Golden Wedding absolutely fits the above to a proverbial T, and not only do I find A Golden Wedding and L.M. Montgomery’s caressingly and sweetly penned text like a flavourful even if rather unsubstantial in substance reading candy treat, and certainly just like a candy, I am also often craving for more and more of the same and will therefore also reread A Golden Wedding and how Lovell Stevens saves Aunt Tom and Aunt Sally from having to spend their Golden Wedding in the poorhouse repeatedly and always with total joy and pleasure.
And indeed, my rating for A Golden Wedding is totally, uncritically and unabashedly five stars (and I do very highly recommend A Golden Wedding but of course will and must end my review with once again pointing out that A Golden Wedding is not anything deep and spectacular but is definitely a pleasant and utterly delightful and wonderful tale, a story feeling like a warm and fluffy reading blanket). Oh and yes, the majority of the L.M. Montgomery short stories which Rea Wilmshurst has included in After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed are my indeed and like A Golden Wedding delightfully sweet even if not all that deep (and therefore, with regard to After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, I do very much think that this is certainly a perfect Lucy Maud Montgomery reading experience for enjoyment but without too much intellectual straining and pondering).
However and in my opinion, one also does not always require one’s reading experiences and materials to be fundamentally enlightening and heavily nuanced, as well and definitely, sometimes just reading a short piece of fiction that is the epitome of tender sweetness and all things bright and beautiful is what is both wanted and required. And with this in mind, A Golden Wedding absolutely fits the above to a proverbial T, and not only do I find A Golden Wedding and L.M. Montgomery’s caressingly and sweetly penned text like a flavourful even if rather unsubstantial in substance reading candy treat, and certainly just like a candy, I am also often craving for more and more of the same and will therefore also reread A Golden Wedding and how Lovell Stevens saves Aunt Tom and Aunt Sally from having to spend their Golden Wedding in the poorhouse repeatedly and always with total joy and pleasure.
And indeed, my rating for A Golden Wedding is totally, uncritically and unabashedly five stars (and I do very highly recommend A Golden Wedding but of course will and must end my review with once again pointing out that A Golden Wedding is not anything deep and spectacular but is definitely a pleasant and utterly delightful and wonderful tale, a story feeling like a warm and fluffy reading blanket). Oh and yes, the majority of the L.M. Montgomery short stories which Rea Wilmshurst has included in After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed are my indeed and like A Golden Wedding delightfully sweet even if not all that deep (and therefore, with regard to After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, I do very much think that this is certainly a perfect Lucy Maud Montgomery reading experience for enjoyment but without too much intellectual straining and pondering).
July 17, 2020
"And you've got your two hands still and an old couple's prayers and blessings. Not such a bad capital, Lovell, not such a bad capital."
October 23, 2024
Nrtc
5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This is a very sweet little story, all about redemption and blessings coming home and heartwarming love. <33
A Favourite Quote: “I'll never forget how kind and good they was to me. There I was, when Dad died, a little sinner of eleven, just heading for destruction. They give me a home and all the schooling I ever had and all the love I ever got. It was Aunt Sally's teachings made as much a man of me as I am. I never forgot 'em and I've tried to live up to 'em.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “For the next fortnight Lovell and Mrs. Stetson did so much travelling round together that Jonah said genially he might as well be a bachelor as far as meals and buttons went.”
5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This is a very sweet little story, all about redemption and blessings coming home and heartwarming love. <33
A Favourite Quote: “I'll never forget how kind and good they was to me. There I was, when Dad died, a little sinner of eleven, just heading for destruction. They give me a home and all the schooling I ever had and all the love I ever got. It was Aunt Sally's teachings made as much a man of me as I am. I never forgot 'em and I've tried to live up to 'em.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “For the next fortnight Lovell and Mrs. Stetson did so much travelling round together that Jonah said genially he might as well be a bachelor as far as meals and buttons went.”
March 25, 2019
I have arranged my thoughts on this short story into a haiku:
"There's no measuring
How kindness shown to a child
Is later valued."
"There's no measuring
How kindness shown to a child
Is later valued."
January 11, 2026
A Golden Wedding surprised me with its emotional restraint. Montgomery is often associated with sentiment, but here she chooses quiet observation. The marriage at the centre of the story is not idealised; it is weathered.
What struck me was how time functions as the story’s true subject. Fifty years of marriage are not condensed into highlights; they are implied through habits, silences, and shared memory. Love appears not as passion, but as continuity.
Reading this, I felt Montgomery honouring endurance without romanticising it. The couple’s bond is neither dramatic nor exemplary—it is simply real. There are regrets here, but they coexist with gratitude.
What lingered was the story’s attentiveness to mutual adjustment. The marriage has survived not because it was perfect, but because it was flexible. Montgomery frames love not as feeling, but as accommodation.
A Golden Wedding stayed with me because it offers a vision of intimacy grounded in time rather than intensity. It suggests that longevity itself can be a form of meaning.
Most recommended.
What struck me was how time functions as the story’s true subject. Fifty years of marriage are not condensed into highlights; they are implied through habits, silences, and shared memory. Love appears not as passion, but as continuity.
Reading this, I felt Montgomery honouring endurance without romanticising it. The couple’s bond is neither dramatic nor exemplary—it is simply real. There are regrets here, but they coexist with gratitude.
What lingered was the story’s attentiveness to mutual adjustment. The marriage has survived not because it was perfect, but because it was flexible. Montgomery frames love not as feeling, but as accommodation.
A Golden Wedding stayed with me because it offers a vision of intimacy grounded in time rather than intensity. It suggests that longevity itself can be a form of meaning.
Most recommended.
June 25, 2025
A lovely story about a couple in the poorhouse and their old hand who returns from the west and spends all he has to restore them to their old home.
July 23, 2025
Many thanks to Project Gutenberg for making L.M. Montgomery's short stories available to read online.
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