LMM BIOGRAPHY:

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874 at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada.  Her mother died before she reached two years of age and she was raised by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish, P.E.I. She developed an early love of reading and writing.  When she was sixteen she spent a year with her father who had remarried and relocated to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.  When she returned to Cavendish, Maud, as she like to be called, finished school and then got her teaching certificate from Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown.  She taught for one year at Bideford, P.E.I. then left in order to study at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia for a year.  She returned to teaching; first at Belmont and then at Lower Bedeque.  Her last teaching year was cut short when her grandfather died in the spring of 1898 and Maud returned to Cavendish to care for her grandmother.  Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908 and was an instant success--much to Maud's surprise.  LMM wrote three more novels in P.E.I. and then, upon her grandmother's death in 1911, married Rev. Ewan Macdonald and moved to Ontario--first to Leaskdale where her two sons, Chester and Stuart, were born--and then to Norval and finally to Toronto.  LMM published 20 novels, 2 books of short stories and 1 book of poetry.  She also had over 500 short stories and over 500 poems published in magazines.  She died on April 24, 1942 and was buried in the Cavendish Cemetery, Prince Edward Island.