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Two Perspectives on the Circumstances of
L.M. Montgomery's Death:
Was It Suicide or an Accident?
 

At the following link, read Lucy Maud suffered 'unbearable psychological pain' and The heartbreaking truth about Anne's creator -- the link to it is on the same page.

http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080924.wmontgomery24/BNStory/mentalhealth/

Hear Dr. Mary Rubio, LMM biographer, speak about the two interpretations at:
http://www.lmmrc.ca/conference/proceedings.html

CBC News article:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2008/09/22/pe-montgomery-suicide.html
Reaction from Prince Edward Island Montgomery scholar, Dr. Elizabeth Epperly:

Lucy Maud Montgomery named The Guardian's 2008 Newsmaker of Year

Revisiting Anne of Green Gables and Her Creator by Kathleen A. Miller
from The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's Literature, Vol 13, No 2 (2009)


For a look at L.M. Montgomery's life and work (her books, journals, letters, photography, and scrapbooks) as they are included in academics and women's studies, see our links page as well as a complete listing of publications related to L.M Montgomery at:http://lmmresearch.org/bibliography/
 
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An example of Montgomery study:
 
Reimer, Mavis, ed. Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Metuchen, NJ: Children’s Literature Association and Scarecrow, 1992. [Paperback edition, 2003.]
      "Queer Children" : L.M. Montgomery's Heroines - Muriel A. Whitaker
      The Decline Of Anne : Matron vs. Child - Gillian Thomas
      Progressive Utopia : Or, How To Grow Up Without Growing Up - Perry Nodelman
      Calling Back The Ghost Of The Old-Time Heroine : Duncan, Montgomery, Atwood, Laurence and Munro - Catherine Ross
      The Uses of Setting in "Anne Of Green Gables" - Marilyn Solt
      "Anne Of Green Gables" : The Architect Of Adolescence - Mary Rubio
      L.M. Montgomery's Portraits of the Artist : Realism, Idealism and the Domestic Imagination - T.D. MacLulich
      "Kindred Spirits" All : Green Gables Revisited - Carol Gay
      Sexism Down on the Farm? : "Anne Of Green Gables" - Janet Weiss-Townsend
      Community and the Individual in "Anne Of Green Gables" :The Meaning Of Belonging - Susan Drain
      Journeys of the Mother in the World of Green Gables - Nancy Huse
      The Female Bildungsroman in Nineteenth Century America :
      Parameters of a Vision - Eve Kornfield and Susan Jackson
      "Anne Of Green Gables"- A Girls Reading - Temma F. Berg
 
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