Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery?

Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as L.M. Montgomery, or Maud to friends, was born on 30 November 1874. She is a Canadian authoress best known for her Anne Shirley series of novels and her vivid portrayals of rural Canadian life. Montgomery was born in the same Prince Edward Island of her stories on 30 November 1874. Her mother succumbed to tuberculosis when she was less than two years old. Her father then left for Canada's western territories, and she was sent to live in Cavendish with her maternal grandparents, who brought her up quite strictly. As a teen-ager, Montgomery moved briefly to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to try out life with her father and his new wife. She went back to her grandparents' home after a year. Montgomery worked as a teacher on the island for a few years before finally moving back to Cavendish to live with her widowed grandmother. It was during this time that inspiration hit and Montgomery took up the pen to write a novel based loosely on her own experiences. ...  more

From: Kidsworld Magazine Date: 19971201 Author: The Emily of New Moon television series is based on the story Emily of New Moon written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Maud, as she liked to be called, wrote two more books about Emily's life: Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest. Maud is best known for writing Anne of Green Gables and seven more novels about Anne and her family. Born in 1873, she started writing the Anne series of books in 1903 while living on Prince Edward Island. Although the Anne and Emily books take place on Prince Edward Island, Maud moved to Ontario in 1911, where she began writing the Emily books in 1923. ... Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.  more

Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  more