See Events page for details on a Carolyn Collins presentation -- "Re-creating the 1919 Lost Silent Movie of Anne of Green Gables" at the Dedham, Massachusetts, Historial Society 7:00 pm meeting on November 19, 2009.
November 30L.M. Montgomery was born on this date in 1874,
in
Clifton, Prince Edward Island.
This
is also the birthday of Lt. Col. John MacCrae who wrote “In Flanders Fields,” the moving poem of World War 1 alluded to in Rilla of Ingleside.
It was November – the month of crimson sunsets,
parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.
NEXT MEETING OF THE L. M. MONTGOMERY LITERARY SOCIETY: DECEMBER
12, 2009 (Saturday) 1 pm (Place TBA)
Anne
of Avonlea was published in September of 1909.
A September day on Prince Edward Island hills; a crisp wind blowing up over the sand dunes from the sea; a long red road, winding through fields and woods, now looping
itself about a corner of thick set spruces, now threading a plantation of young maples with great feathery sheets of ferns
beneath them, now dipping down into a hollow where a brook flashed out of the woods and into them again, now basking in open
sunshine between ribbons of golden-rod and smoke-blue asters; air athrill with the pipings of myriads of crickets, those glad
little pensioners of the summer hills.
Check the News page for information on Montgomery's last book, just published, and a new Anne of Green Gables-related
film!
Find Simon
Lloyd's presentation on "Making Maud Feel at Home: Collecting L.M. Montgomery at the University of Prince Edward Island" on
our Shining Scrolls Online page.
You will find quotes for
the day from the Anne of Green Gables Treasury of Days and a quick journey through Anne of Green Gables
(last sentences from each chapter) on the Read Anne page. See Events link on this site for updates on the Literary Society activities and information
about a book club in St. Paul, MN. for adults who love children's literature.
The 2009 and 2008 issues of
The Shining Scroll are available [Shining Scrolls Online link]. The last 2008 edition of our newsletter features overviews of the
excellent Montgomery conferences held on Prince Edward Island and in Guelph, Ontario. In addition, read about Montgomery's
friend, Edith Russell, new book releases, and a history of the 116th Battalion, C.E.F. from Montgomery's county
in World War 1.
Join the L.M. Montgomery
Literary Society Group on Facebook.
The L. M. Montgomery Literary Society is a group of readers with a special interest in the life of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942),
her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, as well as her 19 other novels, 500 short stories, poetry, letters
and five volumes of journals (for a listing of her work, see the Books and Links pages).The Literary Society was organized in 1991 by Carolyn
Strom Collinsand Christina Wyss Eriksson after the publication of their first
collaboration, The Anne of Green Gables Treasury. The first meeting was held on Montgomery’s birthdate, November 30, at the Children’s Literature Research Collections
at the University of Minnesota. About thirty people shared their interest in Montgomery’s work and examined the collection
of Montgomery books in the Kerlan Collection.
Carolyn and Christina asked Mary Beth Cavert to edit a newsletter for the society in February 1992 and they chose to
name it The Shining Scroll, after a line in the poem The Fringed Gentian that inspired Montgomery
to persevere in her dream of becoming a successful writer. The Shining Scroll provides special articles and original
research by the Society’s members, summarizes the society’s activities, announces newly published books and events
related to Montgomery, and news from PEI. Reference copies (and digital copies) of The Shining Scroll are located
in the Montgomery Collections at the University of Prince Edward Island Robertson Library and the Montgomery Archival Collections
at Guelph University in Ontario. Archives of The Shining Scroll will be available (someday!) online at these
Montgomery scholar websites:L.M. Montgomery Research Groupand The L.M. Montgomery Research Centre. A list of all articles from
the newsletters is on the Shining Scroll Index Page. Please look at ourItems of Interest page for information about LMM related news, and keep checking our web site, we are adding new content frequently.
The Fringed Gentian
Carol Gaboury, a member of our literary society until
her death in 1998, identified (in the Winter 1989 issue of Kindred Spirits Newsletter of Vermont) this information
about the poem, The Fringed Gentian:
It was published in Godey's Lady's Book inMarch 1884 as part of a continued story called Tam, the Story of a Woman by Ella Rodman Church and Augusta De Bubna. Montgomery used the words "Alpine Path" from this
poem as the title to her autobiography, published in Everywoman's World (1917).
Read more about The Alpine Path on our biography page. See the orginal clipping that she
placed in her scrapbook here.
