Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30th 1874 with Clifton (today New-London), island of the Prince-Edouard - April 24th 1942 with Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer E famous for its Nouvelle S and Romance generally being held on the island of the Prince-Edouard, with the Canada.

Biography

His/her mother, Clara Woolner Macneill Montgomery, dies when it is only two years old. His/her father, Hugh John Montgomery, leave the province after the death of his wife and, thereafter, settle in the Canadian west, while his/her daughter will live at her maternal grandparent, Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolner Macneill, in the village close to Cavendish. In 1890, it joined her father and his/her mother-in-law with Prince-Albert, in Saskatchewan, but at the end of one year it returns to the Island of Prince Edouard in her grandparents.

She follows a formation to Charlottetown to become Enseignant E and, of 1895 to 1896, she studies the literature with the Université Dalhousie with Halifax, Nova Scotia. At 17 years, it writes for the local newspapers of Halifax, Chronicle and Echo . By after, it joined her father in Saskatchewan during one moment and turns over finally on the island of the Prince-Edouard.

After several employment in various schools on the island, it turns over to Cavendish where it lives with her grandmother become widowed. It is for this period that it finds the inspiration to write its books. In 1911, shortly after the death of his/her grandmother, it marries the reverend Ewan Macdonald, Pasteur Presbytérien, and settles in Ontario, where her husband obtains a station of Pasteur to the church presbytérienne Saint-Paul in Leaksdale (which forms today part of Uxbridge).

The couple has three children: Chester Cameron Macdonald (1912-1964), (Ewan) Stuart Macdonald (1915-1982) and Hugh Alexander, which dies in its birth in 1914.

It is in this presbytery that it writes eleven books. This house is thereafter sold and became a museum ( Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum ).

She is an international success with Anne… the house with the green pinions , which is appeared in 1908 and was translated into 16 languages. Being a text which is addressed to all the family, several very popular audovisuelles works in the Anglo-Saxon world of it were drawn, making it possible Montgomery to write other works without money worries.

She dies in Toronto in 1942, and its body rests with the cemetery of Cavendish.

The Université of Guelph holds the majority of its personal records, whereas L.M. Montgomery Institute with the Université of the Island of the Prince-Edouard coordinates the majority of research and conferences on its work. Oxford University Close recently published its personal newspapers, published by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston.

She is always a considerable best-seller to the Japan, because Anne… the house with the green pinions is an obligatory book in a course which relates to the foreign literature.

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