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The Green Gables Letters from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909

The Green Gables Letters from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905–1909 is a volume of selected letters from L.M. Montgomery to her longtime correspondent Ephraim Weber, written between 1905 and 1909. It was edited and introduced by Wilfrid Eggleston and published in January 1960 by The Ryerson Press. A second edition, with a new preface by the editor, was published by Borealis Press in 1981, with a trade paperback edition following in 1997.

After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916–1941, edited by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen, was published in 2006.

From the Dust Jacket

An interesting sequence of letters, written by L.M. Montgomery early in the century, were found in 1956 among the papers of Ephraim Weber who was living in the West. Now lodged in the National Archives in Ottawa, the letters, reproduced here exactly as they were written, form a fascinating footnote to the history of Canadian letters.

These letters are of interest and importance not only because they were written during the years of gestation and birth and outstanding success of the book Anne of Green Gables, but also because they reveal a lively extrovert in an eminently healthy balance. This should prove an absorbing book, both to those adults who have nostalgic memories of “Anne,” and to writers who need encouragement in their struggle for literary recognition.

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition (v–ix)

Acknowledgements (n.pag.)

General Introduction (1–22)

The Letters (23–94)

Epilogue (95–102)

Excerpts

Montgomery, L.M. “Anne and More.” In Sleds, Sleighs and Snow: A Canadian Christmas Carol, edited by Anne Tempelman-Kluit, 53–56. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2005.

Montgomery, Lucy Maud. “1907: Prince Edward Island.” In Canada: A Portrait in Letters 1800–2000, by Charlotte Gray, 268–71. [Toronto]: Doubleday Canada, 2003.

Metadata

Editor: Wilfrid Eggleston
Paratexts: General Introduction and Epilogue by Wilfrid Eggleston
Publisher: The Ryerson Press
Date: 1960
Format: Jacketed hardcover
Pagination: vi + 102 pp.



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