LM Montgomery was a Canadian author born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island. She wrote the Anne Shirley series of novels and lived a rich life before passing away in Toronto in 1942.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as LM Montgomery, or Maud to friends, was born November 30, 1874. She is a Canadian author best known for her Anne Shirley series of novels and her vivid portrayals of rural Canadian life.
Montgomery was born on the same Prince Edward Island in her stories on November 30, 1874. Her mother succumbed to tuberculosis when she was less than two years old. Her father then left for the western territories of Canada, and she was sent to live in Cavendish with her maternal grandparents, who brought her up quite rigorously. As a teenager, Montgomery moved briefly to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to try her hand at life with her father and his new wife. She returned to her grandparents’ house after a year.
Montgomery worked as a teacher on the island for a few years before finally returning to Cavendish to live with her widowed grandmother. It was during this period that inspiration struck and Montgomery took up his pen to write a novel loosely based on his own experiences. He published Anne of Green Gables, his first novel, in 1908.
The author married Ewan Macdonald, a minister, three years after its initial publication and shortly after her grandmother’s death. The couple moved to Ontario so that Macdonald could assume his ministerial duties at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale (now Uxbridge Township).
The St. Paul manse eventually became the present Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum and witnessed the birth of eleven more Montgomery books and three Macdonald children: Chester Cameron, Ewan Stuart and Hugh Alexander. Unfortunately, Hugh Alexander died shortly after his birth.
In 1926, the Macdonalds moved to Halton Hills, Ontario and settled in Norval Presbyterian Charge. After a rich life, Lucy Maud Montgomery died in Toronto, Canada in 1942.
The author’s best loved works include Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne’s House of Dreams and Anne of Ingleside.
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