Extraordinary Canadians: Lucy Maud Montgomery

by Jane Urquhart

Book Overview

New material about the private life of Lucy Maud Montgomery has prompted a searching look at the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables . While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and close community bonds overcame all tribulations, Montgomery's real life was marked by grief and loneliness. Married to a clergyman who suffered from a debilitating mental illness, Montgomery struggled to keep up appearances in a Victorian society that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670066753
• ISBN13: 9780670066759
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher