The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume II: 1910-1921 edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston was published by the Oxford University Press in 1987. L.M. Montgomery wrote extensive journals throughout her life, which provide personal insight to the talented author. Volume II covers the years after Anne of Green Gables was published to wide acclaim. L.M. Montgomery gets married, and she and her husband travel to Scotland and England on their honeymoon. She leaves Prince Edward Island, and she and her husband settle in Ontario.
Here is the description of the volume from the Oxford University Press:
This volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery's journals records a time of great change and upheaval both in Montgomery's life and in society. When she wrote the first entry in this volume she had recently become a world-famous author, having published Anne of Green Gables in 1908. Here we become privy to her response to the death of her grandmother, her marriage and honeymoon trip to Scotland and England, and her departure from Prince Edward Island to the new restrictions of her life as the wife of a Presbyterian minister in an Ontario village.
Montgomery reveals the intensities of friendships, the minutiae of homemaking, and the joys of motherhood along with the traumas of a disturbed marriage. By turns tart and sentimental, sharp-sighted and anxiety-ridden, L.M. Montgomery provides a compelling record of her remarkable life against a background -- both social and literary -- of a tumultuous period in Canadian history.
"The journals, with their vivid account of both daily routines and more significant life events, are written with all the passion, wit and insight into human nature that have made Montgomery's 'books for young people' immortal to readers of all ages."
-Toronto Sun
"These journals are an important contribution, not just to literary and social history, but to the body of Canadian literature."
-Books in Canada
"...one can but commend the editors and their publisher for making such a splendid volume available to us..."
-Atlantic Provinces Book Review
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