Imagining Anne by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly presents L.M. Montgomery's Prince Edward Island scrapbooks, which she created from 1893 to 1910. Montgomery's scrapbooks present memories from a joyful time in her life during which she created Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables. The book presents full-page images from two scrapbooks owned by the Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace and maintained by the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Epperly provides explanatory notes throughout to provide insight into Montgomery's life and interpret her scrapbook presentations.
This book was first published in February 2008 as Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery by Penguin Canada as part of the "100 Years of Anne" celebration.
In July 2019, a second edition of the book entitled Imagining Anne: L.M. Montgomery's Island Scrapbooks was released by Nimbus Publishing.
Here is the description of the book from Nimbus Publishing:
L. M. Montgomery’s beautiful Island scrapbooks, covering a period from 1893 to mid-1910, are finally back in print. Reflecting Montgomery’s youth and optimism, these full-colour pages are filled with meaningful insight into the life of a young writer’s inspiration during the period when she would create the beloved character of Anne Shirley, who would win the hearts of readers worldwide with the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908.
With annotations and notes from Montgomery scholar Elizabeth Epperly, Imagining Anne allows fans a revealing look inside the mind of one of the most cherished writers of the twentieth century.
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