1874-1942 · Canadian novelist from Prince Edward Island, author of Anne of Green Gables
About L. M. Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian novelist from Prince Edward Island. Her mother died when she was an infant and she was raised by strict grandparents in Cavendish, the model for Avonlea. She taught school, worked briefly for a Halifax newspaper and later married the Presbyterian minister Ewan Macdonald. Anne of Green Gables, her first novel, began a series of eight Anne books and made her internationally famous.
Anne of Green Gables opens in Avonlea, a farming village on Prince Edward Island, where the elderly brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have arranged to adopt a boy from a Nova Scotia orphan asylum to help on their farm. Through a mistake the child sent is Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old red-haired girl who talks without stopping, renames everything she loves and has survived a hard childhood by imagination.