biography
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Montgomery, L(ucy) M(aud)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1874–1942)
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| biography:
| Novelist, raised in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, E Canada. She was earning money as a writer by the 1890s. Her first book was the phenomenally successful Anne of Green Gables (1908), after which she published several sequels. Her works are sometimes highly satirical; at her best she captures memorably the mysteries and terrors of early childhood, as in Magic for Marigold (1929). She married the Rev Ewan MacDonald in 1911, and moved to Ontario. At her death she left 10 volumes of unpublished personal diaries (1889–1942), whose publication began in 1985. |
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