[bksvol-discuss] Neat website about authors

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Hey you all, check out this website.  There are a whole list of authors,
with their books, biographies and information.

Quite neat.  I was looking up L. M. Montgomery
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lmmontg.htm

L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery (1874-1942)

Canadian writer, who became famous for her juvenile books, especially ANNE
OF GREEN GABLES (1908) with its six sequels. The main character is a
spirited,
orphan girl, who finds a home with an elderly brother and sister. Montgomery
produced more than 20 novels and other books. Anne of Green Gables was
rejected
by several publishers. She was 34 when it was finally accepted.
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"I'm pretty hungry this morning," she announced, as she slipped into the
chair Marilla placed for her. "The world doesn't seem such a howling
wilderness
as it did last night. I'm so glad it's a sunshiny morning. But I like rainy
mornings real well too. All sorts of mornings are interesting, don't you
think?
You don't know what's going to happen through the day, and there's so much
scope for imagination." (from Anne of Green Gables)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward
Island. When she was two, her mother died of tuberculosis. Her father, who
was
a merchant, remarried, and moved away. Montgomery was raised by her maternal
grandparents in Cavendish. The place was isolated and her childhood was not
particularly happy: she grew up in an atmosphere of strict discipline and
punishment for the slightest reason. She joined her father briefly in Prince
Albert, but then returned to Prince Edward Island.

At an early age Montgomery read widely. She started to write in school and
had her first poem published in a local paper at the age of fifteen. In 1895
Montgomery qualified for a teacher's licence at Prince Wales College,
Charlottetown. During the 1890s she worked as a teacher in Bideford and at
Lower
Bedeque, both on Prince Edward Island.

In 1895-96 Montgomery studied literature at Dalhousie University, Halifax.
She returned to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother, and worked at a
local
post office. In 1911 after her grandmother died, Montgomery married Ewan
MacDonald, the Presbyterian minister, and moved with him to rural Ontario.
While
caring for her grandmother, she wrote the first book of the Anne series. It
drew on her girlhood experiences. The idea was based on a notebook entry
from
1904: "Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is
sent them."

Anne of Green Gables was the story of a talkative, red-haired orphan, Anne
Shirley. She has big green-grey eyes and a narrow, freckled face. Matthew
Cuthbert
and his sister, Marilla, have adopted her from an orphanage in Nova Scotia.
The book became hugely popular, although The New York Times critic (July 18,
1908) wrote: "...there is no real difference between the girl at the end of
the story and the one at the beginning of it. All the other characters in
the
book are human enough." The sequels followed Anne's life from childhood to
adulthood - she marries Gilbert Blythe, a doctor, loses her first child but
her life is then fulfilled with the birth of Little Jem. The initial volume
has been filmed several times, adapted for stage and translated into some 40
languages.

Montgomery's success was shadowed by a nine-year dispute with her publisher
and her husband's bouts of melancholy. "Looking back over his attacks I find
that they have always come on suddenly when he was disappointed or
homesick", Montgomery wrote in her diary on April 12, 1921. "Evidently his
disappointment
and loneliness were repressed into his subconscious mind and began playing
tricks with his nerves, as psycho-analysis has recently discovered such
things
do." In 1925 the family moved to Norval, near Toronto, and then in 1935,
after her husband's retirement, to Toronto. ANNE OF INGLESIDE (1939), the
last
volume in the Anne series, reflected Montgomery's disappointments in life.
During the late 1930s Montgomery suffered a breakdown, and remained
despondent
until her death on April 24, in 1942. At her death she left 10 volumes of
personal diaries (1889-1942), whose publication began in 1985.

Montgomery wrote several collections of stories and two books for adults.
Her other series characters include Emily, who appeared in three novels, and
Pat,
who was in two novels. Montgomery's heroines are frequently motherless, but
adventurous, imaginative and determined. Anne Shirley from Anne of Green
Gables
has a fiery temperament, to do with her red hair. When she marries Gilbert,
she abandons her career as a teacher and is often in an irritable mood.
"It's
all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them
heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?"
Montgomery wrote in Anne of Green Gables. After becoming tired of Anne,
Montgomery created Emily Byrd Starr, who has dark hair and loves nature and
loves
to write. Anne's imagination leads her into conflict with her surroundings,
but Emily uses her imagination to compose poems and stories. In the third
part,
EMILY'S QUEST (1927), she publishes her first book, is confused by reviews,
which are conflicting, and marries Teddy Kent, an artist.
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For further reading: Lucy Maud Montgomery Album by Kevin McCabe and
Alexandra Heilbron (1999); L. M. Montgomery & Canadian Culture, ed. by Irene
Gammel
& Elizabeth Epperly (1999); Anne's World, Maud's World: The Sacred Sites of
L.M. Montgomery by Nancy Rootland (1998); World Authors 1900-1950, ed. by
Martin
Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens (1996); Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery
by Mary Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston (1995); The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass:
L.M.
Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins
Epperly (1992); L.M. Montgomery, ed. by J.R. Sorfleet (1976); The Wheel of
Things
by M. Gillen (1975); The Years Before Anne by F.W.P. Bolger (1974); The
Story of L.M. Montgomery by H.M. Ridley (1956) - Museums: Anne of Green
Gables
Museum, Box 491, Kensington, Prince Edward Island - House where L.M.
Montgomery spent much of her childhood. - Green Gables, Cavendish, Prince
Edward Island
- Montgomery's neighbour's house, which is 'Green Gables' in her novels. -
SEE :
Astrid Lindgren
and her unconventional children's book character Pippi Longstockings; see
also
Louisa Alcott
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Selected works:
List of 37 items
. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, 1908 - Annan nuoruusvuodet - film 1934, dir. George
Nicholls Jnr, starring Anne Shirley (Dawm O'Day, who adopted the name of her
character); Anne of Windy Willows, with the same starts and production team,
followed in 1940 - musical versions, once on Broadway and once in London in
1969
. ANNE OF AVONLEA, 1909 - Anna ystävämme
. KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD, 1910
. THE STORY GIRL, 1911 - Sara Stanleyn tarinat
. THE GOLDEN ROAD, 1913
. ANNE OF THE ISLAND, 1915 - Annan unelmavuodet
. THE WATCHMAN, 1916
. ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS, 1917 - Anna omassa kodissa
. RAINBOW VALLEY, 1919 - Sateenkaarinotko
. FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA, 1920
. RILLA OF INGLESIDE, 1921 - Kotikunnan Rilla
. EMILY OF NEW MOON, 1923 - Pieni runotyttö, trans. into Finnish by I.K.
Inha
. EMILY CLIMBS, 1924 - Runotyttö maineen polulla
. THE BLUE CASTLE, 1926
. EMILY'S QUEST, 1927 - Runotyttö etsii tähteä
. MAGIC FOR MARIGOLD, 1929
. A TANGLED WEB, 1931
. PAT OF SILVER BUSH, 1933
. COURAGEOUS WOMEN, 1934
. MISTRESS PAT, 1935
. ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS, 1936 - Anna opettajana, trans. by Paula Herranen
. JANE OF LANTERN HILL, 1937 - Jane Victoria (osa 1); Jane Victoria tulee
kotiin (osa 2)
. ANNE OF INGLESIDE, 1939 - Annan perhe, trans. by Paula Herranen
. THE GREEN GABLE LETTERS, 1960
. THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY, 1974
. THE ALPINE PATH: THE STORY OF MY CAREER, 1974
. THE DOCTOR'S SWEETHEART, 1979
. MY DEAR MR. M., 1980
. SPIRIT OF PLACE, 1982
. THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY, 1985-87 (2 vols.)
. THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY: 1910-21, 1988
. THE POETRY OF LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY, 1987
. AKIN TO ANNE, 1988
. ALONG THE SHORE, 1989
. THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY: 1921-29, 1993
. AFTER MANY DAYS, 1995
. THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY: 1929-1935, 1999
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