This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1923, the year she published Emily of New Moon. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Overview
Short Stories (1)
Miscellaneous Pieces (2)
Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (questionnaire) | Novel Writing Notes (essay)
Dog Monday’s Vigil (short story)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. Our Canadian Literature: Representative Prose and Verse, chosen by Albert Durrant Watson and Lorne Albert Pierce, third edition (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1923), 381–88.
Synopsis
This story about Dog Monday, who belonged to the Blythe family during the First World War, was adapted from chapters 2, 6, 8, 10, 11, 21, 22, 29, and 35 of Rilla of Ingleside.
Collected
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 255–60.
Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (questionnaire)
Edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923.
Synopsis
This book included the responses of 115 authors, most of whom are no longer widely known, to questions about various aspects of the craft of fiction writing, including technique, inspiration, and trends in current literature. Not only are Montgomery’s responses to twelve questions more substantial that most appearing in the collection, but also, they contain details about Montgomery’s approach to writing that do not appear anywhere else.
Montgomery’s responses appear on pages 9, 30, 44, 68–69, 87–88, 160–61, 211, 225, 238, 252, 268, 279–80, 290, 303, 317, 326, 334, 335–56, 373, 382, 390, 400–401, 408, and 420.
Collected
Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Alexandra Heilbron (Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2001), 200–206 (excerpts).
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, 189–96 (excerpts).
Novel Writing Notes (essay)
The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers (Highland Falls, NY), 17 November 1923, 53–54. Scrapbook of Reviews, 230.
Synopsis
This essay about writing appeared as part of a column entitled “Contemporary Writers and Their Work”: “A Series of Autobiographical Letters on the Genesis, Conception, Development, and Writing of Fiction, Poems, and Articles Published in Current Periodicals.”
Collected
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, 197–98.
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“Shorter Works: 1923.” L.M. Montgomery Online, https://lmmonline.org/shorter-works/shorter-works-1923/.