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This page lists 110 dissertations, theses, and major research papers written about L.M. Montgomery’s life, work, and legacy since 1961.

In chronological order: 1961 | 1967 | 1975 | 1977 | 1979 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1985 | 1986 | 1988 | 1989 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

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1961 (1)

McLaughlin, Gertrude (Sister M. Joanne of Christ). “The Literary Art of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Université de Montréal, 1961.

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1967 (1)

Stevenson, Laura Alice. “The Image of Canada in Canadian Children’s Literature.” MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1967.

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1975 (1)

Macdonald, Rae M. “The Regional Novel in Canada, 1880–1925.” PhD dissertation, Dalhousie University, 1975.

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1977 (4)

Scanlon, Leslie Goddard. “Alternatives: The Search for a Heroine in the Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1977.

Baker, Janet E. “Archibald MacMechan: Canadian Man of Letters.” PhD dissertation, Dalhousie University, 1977.

Ballon, Heather M. “The Bildungsroman in Recent Canadian Fiction.” MA thesis, McGill University, 1977.

Jones, Susan Elizabeth. “Recurring Patterns in the Novels of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Windsor, 1977.

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1979 (1)

Turner, Gordon Philip. “The Protagonists’ Initiatory Experiences in the Canadian Bildungsroman: 1908–1971.” PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1979.

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1981 (1)

Neutze, Christine Dorothy. “Colonial Children: The Fictional Worlds of L.M. Montgomery, Isabel Maud Peacocke and Ethel Turner.” PhD dissertation, University of Auckland, 1981.

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1982 (1)

Williams, Vicki L. “Home Training and the Socialization of Youth in the Sentimental Novels of Marshall Saunders, Nellie McClung, and L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1982. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/1982-00729.

See esp. chapter 4, “Lucy Maud Montgomery,” 69–112.

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1983 (1)

Sobkowska, Krystyna. “The Reception of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery in Poland.” MA thesis, University of Lodz, 1983.

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1985 (2)

Russell, Judith G. “Imagination and Nature in the Life and Work of L.M. Montgomery.” BA Honours thesis, Mount Holyoke College, 1985.

Avery, Heather Margaret. “One Author’s Response to a Changing World: A Study of the Variations in Selected Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1985.

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1986 (2)

McKend, Heather. “Shaping the Self: L.M. Montgomery’s Apprenticeship in Romance.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 1986.

Colson, Amy E. “Characterization in the Novels of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Mount Allison University, 1986.

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1988 (1)

Squire, Shelagh J. “L.M. Montgomery’s Prince Edward Island: A Study of Literary Landscapes and Tourist Development.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1988. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/1988-01470.

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1989 (2)

Wright, Laurie-Catherine. “L.M. Montgomery’s Idealism: The Influence of Emerson.” MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1989.

Alexander, Laurie. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Maritime Women’s Diaries: Laura Wood, Victoria Ross, L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, St. Mary’s University, 1989.

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1991 (4)

Åhmansson, Gabriella. “A Life and Its Mirrors: A Feminist Reading of L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, Volume 1: An Introduction to Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Shirley.” PhD dissertation, University of Uppsala (Swed.), 1991.

Østby, Inger-Marie. “What Constitutes the Artistic Mind?: A Study of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women.” Cand. Phil. thesis, University of Oslo (Nor.), 1991.

Guth, Gwendolyn Ann. “Interplay in the ‘Emily’ Trilogy of L.M. Montgomery: A Canadian Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.” MA thesis, University of Ottawa, 1991. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-15364.

Elvidge, Andrea. “‘Something Worthwhile in Its Line’: L.M. Montgomery and the Female Bildungsroman.” MA thesis, University of Waterloo, 1991.

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1992 (2)

Rubio, Jennie. “‘In an Alphabet I Did Not Know’: Reading Space in Montgomery, Laurence and Munro.” MA thesis, McMaster University, 1992.

Kelly, Leena. “An Approach to Avonlea: On the Characterization in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, University of Oulu (Finland), 1992.

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1993 (2)

Yeast, Denyse Elaine. “Negotiating and Articulating a Self: An Intertextual Reading of L.M. Montgomery’s Public and Private Writings.” MA thesis, University of Calgary, 1993.

Campbell, Marie. “Wordbound: Women and Language in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon Trilogy.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 1993.

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1994 (1)

Maritano, Monica. “Lucy Maud Montgomery e le eroine della ‘children’s literature’ canadese.” MA thesis, Università degli studi di Torino (Italy), 1994.

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1995 (2)

Healey, Keli Jo T. “Keeping Out the Shadows: Overreading L.M. Montgomery’s Novels through Her Journals.” MA thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995.

Ceraldi, Gabrielle. “Gendered Economies: Humour and Sentimentality in Sunshine Sketches and Rilla of Ingleside.” MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 1995.

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1997 (1)

McParland, Andrea Peden. “Trapped in Her Lover’s Arms: The Problem of Courtship and Romance in Selected Novels by L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Lakehead University, 1997.

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1998 (4)

Robinson, Laura Mae. “Educating the Reader: Negotiation in Nineteenth-Century Popular Girls’ Stories.” PhD dissertation, Queen’s University, 1998.

Hammill, Faye Louise. “Inspiration and Imitation: Responses to Canadian Literary Culture in the Work of Frances Brooke, Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan, L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields.” PhD dissertation, University of Birmingham, 1998.

Nelles, Simone. “Pilgrimages in a Land of Penumbra: A Critical Reading of the Religious Theme and Its Complex Variations in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Approaches toward Faith.” MA thesis, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Ger.), 1998.

Klempa, Mary-Margaret. “Passionate Blood, Puritan Conscience: An Intertextual Study of the Private and Public Works of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Concordia University, 1998.

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1999 (2)

Golding Page, Julie Rae. “Kindred to the Spirit: A Christian Perspective on the Imagination as Portrayed in L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Series.” MA thesis, Regent College, 1999. https://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/tren/1203

Wood, Kate. “Patriotic Discourse: Historicizing Anne of Green Gables and PEI’s Turn-of-the-Century Newspapers.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 1999. https://hdl.handle.net/10214/24922.

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2000 (1)

Somers, Seán. “The Dryad’s Bubble: Faith, Nature, and Movement in Charlotte Brontë, L.M. Montgomery, and Haiku.” MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2000.

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2001 (7)

Showalter, Anne. “Touring Avonlea.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 2001. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2001-04914.

Francis, Gillian. “Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Chronicles of the Great War.” BA Honours thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001.

Miller, Gina Clare. “Subversion of Romance and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” MA thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2001.

McCabe, Shauna Joanne. “Representing Islandness: Myth, Memory, and Modernisation in Prince Edward Island.” PhD dissertation, The University of British Columbia, 2001.

Litster, Jennifer H. “The Scottish Context of L.M. Montgomery.” PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh (UK), 2001.

Lefebvre, Benjamin. “Notes toward Editing L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes Are Quoted.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 2001.

Hersey, Eleanor Longridge. “Ravishing Television: Adapting Women’s Fiction for the Small Screen.” PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2001.

See esp. chapter 1, “‘Tennyson Would Never Approve’: Reading and Performance in Kevin Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables”; chapter 2, “‘It’s All Mine: Anne Shirley as Professional Writer in Kevin Sullivan’s Anne of Avonlea”; “Appendix A: Scene Outline for Anne of Green Gables”; “Appendix B: Scene Outline for Anne of Avonlea.”

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2002 (2)

Allard, Danièle. “The Popularity of Anne of Green Gables in Japan—A Study of Hanako Muraoka’s Translation of L.M. Montgomery’s Novel and Its Reception.” PhD dissertation, Université de Sherbrooke, 2002.

Bauer, Ingrid C. “Living in an Unidyllic Idyll: The Worlds of Anne and Heidi; A Comparison between Johanna Spyri’s Heidi and L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, McGill University, 2002.

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2003 (1)

van der Klei, Alice. “The Practice of Memory in Hypertext Wor(l)ds.” PhD dissertation, Université de Montréal, 2003.

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2004 (6)

McRae, Matthew John. “Manufacturing Paradise: Tourism, Development and Mythmaking on Prince Edward Island 1939–1973.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 2004. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2004-05874.

Kotsopoulos, Patsy Aspasia. “Romance and Industry on the Road to Avonlea.” PhD dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2004.

Haire-Sargeant, Lin. “American Girl to New Woman: Themes of Transformation in Books for Girls, 1850–1925.” PhD dissertation, Tufts University, 2004.

Gauthier, Roseanne, and Michelle McDonald. “Towards an Annotated Edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” BA Honours thesis, University of Prince Edward Island, 2004.

Narbonne, André. “The Order of Good Cheer: Carlylean Idealism and the Confederation Humorists Sara Jeannette Duncan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen Leacock.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2004.

Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth. “Girls on the Edge: Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Emerging New World Nationalisms.” MA thesis, Wayne State University, 2004.

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2005 (5)

Sweet, Catherine S. “Secular Pilgrimages: Vacation as Pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island.” MA thesis, McMaster University, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/11375/10623.

Nave, Carolyn J. “The Writer as Artist: Landscapes, Portraits, and Still Lifes in the Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” MA thesis, Hollins University, 2005.

de Jong, Yael. “Breaking the Silence: An Examination of the Portrayal of Mothers in the Works of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Roehampton University (UK), 2005.

Robertson, Beth. “Reaching Anti-Maudernism: Investigations into the Memory of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 2005.

Shaw, Amy J. “These Strange, Ridiculous and Contradictory Creatures: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2005.

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2006 (2)

Lefebvre, Benjamin. “Ambivalence, Belonging, Citizenship: Ideology and the Represented Child in Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction in English.” PhD dissertation, McMaster University, 2006.

See esp. chapter 2, “The Fitness of Things: Anne of Green Gables and L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Discerning Extraordinary Observer,’” 88–132.

Hingston, Kylee-Anne. “Abominable Virtues and Cured Faults: Disability, Deviance, and the Double Voice in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-07202006-172102.

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2007 (2)

Knoppert, Vivianne. “Dearly Beloved . . . and Departed: Reevaluating the Narrative of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Series.” MA thesis, Utrecht University (Neth.), 2007. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/25541.

Webb, Peter. “Occupants of Memory: War in Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction.” PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2007. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12985.

See esp. chapter 2, “Patriotic Fiction of the First World War,” 48–82.

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2008 (2)

Dryden, Jean Elizabeth. “Copyright in the Real World: Making Archival Material Available on the Internet.” PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/11198.

McDonald-Rissanen, Mary. “Sandstone Diaries: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Life Writing.” PhD dissertation, University of Tampere (Fin.), 2008.

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2009 (4)

Jones, Amber L. “The Natural Progression of an Orphan: L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, Tennessee Technological University, 2009.

Harris, Siân. “The Canadian Künstlerroman: The Creative Protagonist in L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence.” PhD dissertation, Newcastle University (UK), 2009. https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/handle/10443/1659.

Czerny, Val. “Let Them Run Wild: Childhood, the Nineteenth-Century Storyteller, and the Ascent of the Moon.” PhD dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2009. https://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209982.

See esp. chapter 3, “The Silent ‘E’s Speak: Anne, Entwine, Fate, Woodbine,” 239–303.

Katt, Beverly. “‘A Little Odd’: Representations of Gender in Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, Central Michigan University, 2009.

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2010 (3)

Thomson, Heather. “‘I Think It Well to Search for Truth Everywhere’: Religious Identity and the Construction of the Self in L.M. Montgomery’s Selected Journals.” MA thesis, University of Ottawa, 2010. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-19389.

Macquarrie, Jenn. “Never Was Such a Race of Dancers: Dance and Nation in Canadian Literature.” PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2010. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13273.

See esp. chapter 5, “Nature’s Healing Dance: Isadora Duncan, Delsarte, and L.M. Montgomery,” 207–47.

Kannas, Vappu. “Down, You Vagabond of a Heart! Romance and Created Personas in the Journals of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Helsinki (Fin.), 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/10138/24758.

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2011 (3)

Whitmore, Erin. “Genre, Domesticity, and Female Agency in Three Rural Novels by Catharine Parr Traill, Margaret Murray Robertson, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.” PhD dissertation, University of New Brunswick, 2011.

Patchell, Kathleen Margaret. “Faith, Fiction, and Fame: Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables.” PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2011. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4455.

Tomkowicz, Robert. “Crossing the Boundaries: Overlaps of Intellectual Property Rights.” Doctor of Laws thesis, University of Ottawa, 2011. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4720.

See esp. section 3, chapter 3, “Trademarks and Copyrights,” 164–81.

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2012 (3)

Stafford, Margot Alison. “The Child and the Book: Imagining Childhood Reading in Anglo-America, 1899–1936.” PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2012. https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11857/.

See esp. chapter 4, “L.M. Montgomery’s Book Friendship for Girl Readers,” 109–53.

Thompson, Rebecca J. “‘That House Belongs to Me’ : The Appropriation of Space, Place, and Heritage in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” MA thesis, Seton Hall University, 2012. https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/1816.

DeGagné, Debra Childs. “‘Women Worth Fighting For’: Revaluing Gender and War in Rilla of Ingleside.” MA thesis, Royal Military College of Canada, 2012. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR93353.pdf.

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2013 (3)

Hickey, David S. “After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2013. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1805.

See esp. “Unearthly Pleasures: The Night Skies of L.M. Montgomery,” 93–158.

Douglas, Jennifer Lynn. “Archiving Authors: Rethinking the Analysis and Representation of Personal Archives.” PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/35808.

Woster, Emily S. “Intertextuality and Life Writing: The Reading Autobiography of L.M. Montgomery.” PhD dissertation, Illinois State University, 2013.

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2014 (2)

Osborne, Sarah C. “Meaning and Imagined Memories: Exploring Literary Landscape Theory through the Aesthetics of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10214/8482.

Lee, Katja. “Women’s Celebrity in Canada: Contexts and Memoirs, 1908–2011.” PhD dissertation, McMaster University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/11375/16531.

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2015 (4)

Gothie, Sarah Conrad. “(Her)itage: Literary Tourism and the Popular Legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113625.

See esp. chapter 2, “Playing ‘Anne’: Red Braids, Green Gables, and Literary Tourists on Prince Edward Island,” 75–107.

Mark, Sabrina. “Changing Clothes: Female Dress and the Widening Sphere in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/1993/30352.

Kannas, Vappu. “‘The Forlorn Heroine of a Terribly Sad Life Story’: Romance in the Journals of L.M. Montgomery.” PhD dissertation, University of Helsinki (Fin.), 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10138/158412.

Canning, Gregory. “‘A Good Show in a Good House to a Good Audience’: Early Film Exhibition in the Maritime Provinces, 1896–1919.” PhD dissertation, Dalhousie University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10222/80170.

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2016 (4)

Groen, Jessica A. “We’ll Find the Time: Performing Traumatic Hope through Fictions of Child Maltreatment.” MA thesis, Purdue University, 2016.

See esp. chapter 5, “Montgomery’s Self-Caring Orphans and the Development of the ‘Narrative-I,’” pp. 66–81.

Wineinger, Rachel E. “Raised by the Book: What Ellen, Jo, and Anne Teach Us about Reading and Girlhood in the Victorian Era.” MA thesis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2016. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1815062402.

See esp. chapter 3, “Anne Shirley: The Girl Who Imagined,” 60–81.

Crain, Elizabeth Ann. “The Power of the Other: A Character Analysis of the Orphan Figure in Children’s Literature.” PhD dissertation, University of Memphis, 2016. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1559.

See esp. chapter 4, “‘The Enchanting Realm Beyond’: Pagan Spiritualism in the Orphan Girl Novels of L.M. Montgomery,” 75–103.

Abram, Zachary. “Knights of Faith: The Soldier in Canadian War Fiction.” PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2016. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5791.

See esp. chapter 1, “From Crusaders to Cannon Fodder: Cultures of Militarization in Canadian War Novels, 1900–1930,” 27–82.

McCargar, Marilla. “Femininity and Higher Education: Women at Ontario Universities, 1890 to 1920.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2016. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3765/.

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2017 (1)

van Heerden, Jeanne-Marie. “‘Little Houses Lovable’: The Portrayal of Houses and Homes in Selected Novels by L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, University of Pretoria, December 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2263/83723.

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2018 (3)

Young, Jessica. “A Maud of Her Own: Re-visioning L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Western Eden’ in Melanie Fishbane’s Historical Fiction.” MA major research paper, Ryerson University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14660613.v1.

Marcus, Jaclyn. “Reading Dress: Fashion and Friendship in A Little Princess and Anne of Green Gables.” MA major research paper, Ryerson University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14655939.v1.

See esp. chapter 3, “‘I Thought of My Lovely Puffed Sleeves and Took Courage’: Transformative Dress in Anne of Green Gables,” 40–58.

Mohabir, Emily Katharina. “Anne of the Imaginative Space: Fan Activities as Textual Negotiation of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Narrative.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 2018. https://scholar.acadiau.ca/islandora/object/theses:3184.

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2019 (2)

Partyka-Sitek, Anna. “Refracting Cultural Faces: Different Annes in Green Gables.” MA thesis, Jagiellonian University (Poland), 2019. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/239335.

Hudson, Allison. “Everyday Magic: The Unique Romanticism of L.M. Montgomery.” MA thesis, Dublin City University (UK), 2019.

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2020 (2)

Hnatow, Alison Elizabeth. “Anne-Girls: Investigating Contemporary Girlhood through Anne with an E.” BA thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2020. https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/39898/1/Hnatow_ETD_2020.pdf.

Mark, Sabrina. “To ‘Make Things Move, Somewhere’: Mobility and the Public Roles of Girls and Women in Popular Girls’ Novels, 1900–1920.” PhD dissertation, University of Manitoba, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1993/34979.

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2021 (6)

Onty, Jannatul Ferdose. “Tracing the Differences in the Representation of ‘Queer’ Identity Found in Few 20th and 21st Century Novels.” MA thesis, Brac University (Bangladesh), 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10361/16114.

Martinsson, Ida. “Ecofeminism in Anne of Green Gables: Giving Up the Connection to Nature and Becoming a Proper Lady.” BA thesis, Linköping University (Swed.), 2021. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177308.

Reed, Ashlyn Nicole. “The Soul Grows by Leaps and Bounds: Analyzing the Diary Structure in Rilla of Ingleside.” Undergraduate Research Scholars thesis, Texas A&M University, 2021. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194341.

López Torrente, Andrea. “The Courage to Imagine: Anne’s Pursuit of Her Ambitions in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island.” BA thesis, Universidad del País Vasco (Spain), 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10810/55824.

Iverson, Tracy Nichole. “An Empty Grave: Grief and Mourning on the Canadian Home Front in the First World War.” MA thesis, University of Calgary, 2021. https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39186.

Kennedy, Amy Anne. “Orphan Trauma and the Narrative of Imagination: Autobiographical Memory, Trauma and Coping Mechanisms in The Alpine Path, Emily of New Moon and Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, University of Iceland, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1946/37954.

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2022 (5)

Sabaliauskaitė, Greta. “Anne Adapted: A (Con)textual Analysis of L.M. Montgomery’s Novel Anne of Green Gables and Anne with an E.” MA thesis, Vilnius University, 2022. https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:143534259/.

McCabe, Taylor D. “Girls Never Grow Up: Generic Impossibility and Narrative Tension in the Late-Nineteenth Century Maturation Serial.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8157639k.

See esp. chapter 1, “Queer Places and In-Between Times: Forestalling Expectations and the Pleasures of Delay in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Series,” 21–57.

Jeong, Hanseul. “Mediated Film Tourists’ Experiences: Navigating Anne with an E-Inspired Travelogues on Social Media.” MA thesis, University of Calgary, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39819.

Hathorn, Taylor McKay. “‘Didn’t Shut My Eyes to Pray: Anne Shirley as an Agent of Conversion and Liberation Theology in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, Mississippi College, 2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2706121527.

MacCoul, Jennifer. “Scope for the Imagination: Cultivating Craft in the Abandoned Farmscapes of Prince Edward Island.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10222/81545.

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2023 (1)

Ihalainen, Roosa-Maria. “Orphanhood, Insidious Trauma, and Belonging in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland, 2023. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uef-20230307.

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Published on 11 August 2007; last updated on 27 February 2024. Please contact the site owner with additions, corrections, questions, and suggestions.