Life after death: the real Lucy Maud Montgomery
Unlike Anne, who refuses her full scholarship to college in order to stay home at Green Gables and teach in the local one-room school, Montgomery aspired to more and fought hard for it. To afford tuition to attend an accelerated-year teachers’ college in , the year she turned 19, she taught music lessons and saved every penny. The difference was made up by, of all people, her grandmother. This generosity wasn’t because she was proud of her granddaughter, like Anne’s Marilla, but because she was pragmatic; when her husband passed, the homestead would go to the eldest male heir. If Montgomery didn’t find work, she’d be homeless.
Fast-tracking through a two-year program in one year, Montgomery got her teacher’s licence and worked a few teaching jobs across the island to make ends meet. On the side, she pursued her real passion of writing and saw successes trickling in: her first paid (in the form of magazine subscriptions) poem, “The Violet’s Spell,” to Ladies Home Journal, her first legitimate cheque ($5 for a contest won at the Evening Mail) and a puff column at the Halifax Echo that she published under the pen name “Cynthia.”
L. M. Montgomery Institute
L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, on November 30, , to Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill. When Montgomery was 21 months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. Her father left her in the care of her mother's parents, Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneill of Cavendish, and moved to western Canada, where he eventually settled in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and remarried.
As an only child living with an elderly couple, Montgomery found companionship in her imagination, nature, books, and writing. When she was nine, she began writing poetry and keeping a journal. She also spent time with her Uncle John and Aunt Annie Campbell (her mother's sister), and their family in Park Corner. There she spent many happy days, playing with her cousins and visiting her paternal grandfather, Senator Donald Montgomery, who lived close to the Campbells. She loved her Cavendish home and Silver Bush (as the Campbell farm was called) in Park Corner.
At the age of six, she began attending the one-room school near her grandparents' home in Cavendish. She completed her early education ther
MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (Macdonald), diarist, author, teacher, newspaperwoman, and public speaker; b. 30 Nov. in Clifton (New London), P.E.I., only child of Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill; m. 5 July the Reverend Ewen (Ewan) Macdonald (d. ) in Park Corner, P.E.I., and they had three sons, the second of whom died at birth; d. 24 April in Swansea (Toronto) and was buried in Cavendish, P.E.I.
L. M. Montgomery, called both Lucy Maud and Maudie as a child and Maud as an adult (she once asserted that “my friends call me ‘Maud’ and nothing else”), was raised in Cavendish near the north shore of Prince Edward Island; under the fictional name of Avonlea, this beautiful rural community provides the setting for her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. She was born into two of the province’s most prominent landholding families. Both the Macneills and the Montgomerys boasted ties to distinguished clans in Scotland, some members of which were published authors, and they had relatives who were active in Island politics. As she matured, Maud was aware of tension between her “passionate Montgomery blood” and her “Puritan Macneil
Early Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, New London, Prince Edward Island, on November 30th, Her parents were Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill. She was 21 months old when she lost her mother due to tuberculosis.
Being a lonely child, living with an elderly couple, Montgomery found companionship and solace in imagination, fantasy, nature, books, and writing. From the age of six, she began to attend the school near her grandparents&#; home in Cavendish and completed her early education, except a single year there, the one year she spent in Prince Albert. She began writing poetry and keeping a journal from an early age of nine.
Therein she achieved her first publication a poem named &#;On Cape LeForce&#; published by a The Patriot, a Prince Albert newspaper. She returned to Cavendish, in and she completed grade ten in The succeeding year (), she studied in order to gain a teacher&#;s license at Prince of Wales College, prodigally completing the two-year course in a single year and graduating with honors.
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Lucy was taken care of by her maternal grandparents, Alexander Mcneill and
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