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How Fair the Realm Literary Allusions Open to the View
L.M. Montgomery’s books are filled with literary allusions to earlier works. Identifying the sources of these allusions isn’t always easy.
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A Note on the Epigraph to Rilla of Ingleside
Identifying not only the text Montgomery’s work alludes to but also the version of that text can reveal clues about her creative process.
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“‘Spleet-New’ from the Publishers”: Anne of Green Gables at 110
On this day in 1908, L.M. Montgomery received her first copies of Anne of Green Gables. But there’s more than one account of this experience.
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Q&A with Indigo
In this Q&A from October 2010, I chatted with Melanie J. Fishbane, at the time an editor at Indigo, about some recent book projects.
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The Dark Side of L.M. Montgomery
This essay, coinciding with the publication of L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes Are Quoted, appeared on 23 October 2009 in The Mark News.