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by Deborah Quaile
with illustrations
by Jennifer Osborn
A scrapbook-style history
follows Maud’s village life
in Norval, Ontario, Canada, where she lived from 1926
to 1935, through photographs, memorabilia, literary quotations,
and local journalism.
© 2006 Deborah Quaile
isbn 0-9733911-1-1
208 pages / soft cover
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L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935
by Deborah Quaile
The professional life and home life of Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald (author of Anne of Green Gables)
were inextricably intertwined. This scrapbook-style history follows Maud’s village life in Norval, Ontario,
Canada, where she lived from 1926 to 1935, through photographs, memorabilia, literary quotations, and local journalism.
In long-unread issues of newspapers and magazines, and in personal archives, author Deborah Quaile has uncovered hints
of Maud that haven’t been seen in decades. The story follows Norval and local history, while at the same time
recreating the life of Canada’s favourite author, from her everyday appearance at church socials, to speaking
engagements in far-flung cities where standing ovations were cordial recognitions of her other existence.
L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935 reconstructs the reality in which the writer revolved,
presenting new material that has not been seen by the current generations of Montgomery scholars and fans.
Knowing her fondness for scrapbooking through archives in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, perhaps these
are the pages L.M. Montgomery would have loved to create.
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