Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery

Publisher Marketing:"Anne of Green Gables" is beyond question the most popular girl heroine in recent years. Poets, statesmen, humorists, critics, and the great public have lost their hearts to the charming Anne. "Anne of Green Gables" is not a book of a season, to attain a wide popularity for a brief space and sink into oblivion with many another "best seller," but its literary merit is such that it is bound to have a permanent place in literature and continue to increase in popularity with each succeeding season."In "Anne of Green Gables" you will find the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice." - Mark Twain in a letter lo Francis Wilson. Contributor Bio:  Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery completed her early education in Cavendish with the exception of one year (1890-1891) during which she was at Prince Albert with her father and her step-mother, Mary Ann McRae. In November 1890, while at Prince Albert, Montgomery had her first work published in the Charlottetown paper The Daily Patriot; a poem entitled "On Cape LeForce." She was as excited about this as she was about her return to her beloved Prince Edward Island in 1891. The return to Cavendish was a great relief to her. Her time in Prince Albert was unhappy due to the fact that Montgomery and McRae did not get along and because by, .".. Maud's account, her father's marriage was not a happy one."