Biography of lm montgomery

 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, natur, 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, medlem av senat Donald Montgomery, who lived close to the Campbells.  She loved her Cavendish home and Silver

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian novelist (–)

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE
Montgomery, c.&#;
Born	()November 30, New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Died	April 24, () (aged&#;67) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Fiction writer
Education	Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
Period	–
Genre	Canadian literature, children's novels, short fiction, poetry
Notable works
Spouse	Ewen MacDonald
Children	3

Lucy Maud MontgomeryOBE (November 30, &#;– April 24, ), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as short stories, poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.^[1] Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Isla

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The Life and Work of L.M. Montgomery

[Cover sheet]

Agreement

Between

L.M. Montgomery

and L.C. Page & Company

(incorporated)

For the publication of

Anne of Green Gables

April 22,

[LMM’s handwritten notes]

Royalties

Feb. $

Mar. $

Feb Regular

Sales . etc.

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[Body of contract]

Agreement made the twenty-second day of April between (Miss) L. M. Montgomery of Cavendish, P.E.I. and L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Inc.), Publishers, having their usual place of business in the City of Boston, Mass.

1. [Copyright] Said L. M. Montgomery hereby grants, bargains, sells, and assigns to L. C. Page & Company (Inc.) a work, the title or subject or description of which is ANNE OF GREEN GABLES a juvenile story including all serial rights, dramatic rights, translations, abridgements, selections and rights therefor of said work, or parts thereof, and hereby grants and assigns to said L. C. Page & Company (Inc.) exclusive rights and power, in their own name, to take