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This page lists written materials pertaining to L.M. Montgomery’s life, work, and legacy by authors whose surnames begin with N.

In alphabetical order: M.R. Nababan | André Narbonne | Carolyn J. Nave | Elaine Kalman Naves | Diane Richardson Naylor | Tatiana Nazarenko | Rebekah Needham | Simone Nelles | Claudia Nelson | Libby Nelson | Christine Dorothy Neutze | Emily L. Newman | Hilary Newman | Joy Newsome | Brenda Niall | Jane Nicholas | Stephen Nicholls | Eleanor Hersey Nickel | Colin Nickerson | Kristin Nickerson | Val Nielsen | Maria Nikolajeva | Kateryna Nikolenko | Olga Nikolenko | Jason Nisenson

Mary H. Nixon | Beate Nock | Perry Nodelman | Tara Nogler | Jason Nolan | Stephanie Nolen | Idette Noomé | E. Blanche Norcross | Marek Norman | Laurie Glenn Norris | Michael O. Nowlan | Aoi Nozawa | Mary Nygard | Paul Nygard

Authors by surname: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z

M.R. Nababan

Journal Article (1)

Poyungi, Yurike Suhertian, M.R. Nababan, and Riyadi Santosa. “Translation Techniques of Modality Metaphor in Novel Anne of Green Gables.” Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya 11, no. 1 (January–June 2021): 68–79. https://doi.org/10.26714/lensa.11.1.2021.68-79.

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André Narbonne

Journal Articles (2)

Narbonne, André. “Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stephen Leacock’s Shared Canadian Figure.” The Explicator 72, no. 2 (2014): 84–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2014.902791.

Narbonne, André. “Carlylean Sentiment and the Platonic Triad in Anne of Green Gables.” American Review of Canadian Studies 44, no. 4 (October 2014): 433–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2014.976235.

Reference Item (1)

Narbonne, André. “Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) (30 November 1874–24 April 1942).” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 362: Canadian Literary Humorists, edited by Paul Matthew St. Pierre, 172–86. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2011.

Dissertation/Thesis (1)

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.

Reviews (2)

Narbonne, André. Review of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre; The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 2: A Critical Heritage, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre; The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 3: A Legacy in Review, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. American Review of Canadian Studies 45, no. 2 (June 2015): 249–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2015.1045200.

Narbonne, André. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. American Review of Canadian Studies 45, no. 4 (December 2015): 534–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2015.1123403.

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Carolyn J. Nave

Dissertation/Thesis (1)

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

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Elaine Kalman Naves

Journal Article (1)

Naves, Elaine Kalman. “In Discussion with Mary Pratt.” Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 81 (Spring 1996): 19–23. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4297.

Newspaper Items (3)

Naves, Elaine Kalman. “L.M. Montgomery Symposium Is for Fans and Scholars Alike.” Gazette (Montreal), 4 June 1994, I3.

Also as “Maud Montgomery Subject of Serious Study,” Windsor (ON) Star, 30 July 1994, E3.

Naves, Elaine Kalman. “Inspired by Emily.” Gazette (Montreal), 3 January 1998, H1–H2.

Naves, Elaine Kalman. “Interest in Anne’s Creator Endures.” Gazette (Montreal), 22 May 1999, J1.–J2.

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Diane Richardson Naylor

Newsletter Items (2)

Naylor, Diane Richardson. “My Dream Comes True.” Kindred Spirits, Fall 2003, 8–9.

Naylor, Diane Richardson. “Sewing Circle.” Kindred Spirits, Fall 2003, 15.

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Tatiana Nazarenko

Review (1)

Nazarenko, Tatiana. Review of The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. British Journal of Canadian Studies 8, no. 1 (1993): 118–19.

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Rebekah Needham

Newsletter Item (1)

Needham, Rebekah. “Anne’s Kindred Spirit.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 1, no. 4 (Summer 1992): 30.

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Simone Nelles

Dissertation/Thesis (1)

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.

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Claudia Nelson

Journal Article (1)

Nelson, Claudia. “Drying the Orphan’s Tear: Changing Representations of the Dependent Child in America, 1870–1930.” Children’s Literature 29 (2001): 52–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.0.0797.

Reference Item (1)

Nelson, Claudia. “Montgomery, L.M.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, edited by Jack Zipes, 3: 88–90. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Libby Nelson

Newsletter Items (3)

Nelson, Libby. “Victorian Linens.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 2, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 18.

Nelson, Libby. “Summer Raspberries.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 12 (Summer 1995): 12.

Nelson, Libby. “Rose Petal Jam.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 14 (Winter 1995–1996): 30.

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Christine Dorothy Neutze

Dissertation/Thesis (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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Emily L. Newman

Book Chapter (1)

Newman, Emily L. “‘My Red Hair Is a Curse’: Growing Up Red-Headed with Anne of Green Gables.” In Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, edited by Jessica Carniel and Nike Sulway, 83–93. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

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Hilary Newman

Newsletter Items (3)

Newman, Hilary. “Delayed and Late Marriages in L.M. Montgomery’s Chronicles of Avonlea.” Kindred Spirits, Autumn 1999, 18–19.

Newman, Hilary. “Marriage and Art in the Emily Trilogy.” Kindred Spirits, Summer 2000, 20–22.

Newman, Hilary. “Career and Marriage in the Life of L.M. Montgomery.” Kindred Spirits, Winter 2003, 12–13.

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Joy Newsome

Newsletter Item (1)

Newsome, Joy. “Oakville a Fitting Home for New Musical Treat ‘Blue Castle.’” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 11 (Spring 1995): 30.

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Brenda Niall

Journal Article (1)

Niall, Brenda. “Writing from Home: The Literary Careers of Ethel Turner and L.M. Montgomery.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 15, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 175–80. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.0796.

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Jane Nicholas

Journal Article (1)

Nicholas, Jane. “The Children’s Séance: Child Death, the Body, and Grief in Interwar Ontario.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 11, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 188–207. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2018.0030.

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Stephen Nicholls

Newspaper Item (1)

Nicholls, Stephen. “Road to Avonlea Benched for Hockey.” Gazette (Montreal), 27 February 1990, F1.

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Eleanor Hersey Nickel

Book Chapters (2)

Hersey, Eleanor. “‘It’s All Mine’: The Modern Woman as Writer in Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables Films.” In Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, edited by Irene Gammel, 131–44. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey. “‘The World Hasn’t Changed Very Much’: Romantic Love in Film and Television Versions of Anne of Green Gables.” In 100 Years of Anne with an “e”: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, edited by Holly Blackford, 105–21. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009.

Journal Article (1)

Hersey, Eleanor. “‘Tennyson Would Never Approve’: Reading and Performance in Kevin Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables.” Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 105–6 (Spring–Summer 2002): 48–67. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/3848.

Dissertation/Thesis (1)

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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Colin Nickerson

Newspaper Item (1)

Nickerson, Colin. “Between the Lines: Scholar Outs ‘Anne.’” Boston Globe, 10 June 2000, A01.

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Kristin Nickerson

Newsletter Item (1)

Nickerson, Kristin. “A Gift Wrapping Idea.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 2, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 17.

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Val Nielsen

Reviews (3)

Nielsen, Val. Review of Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, illustrated by Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson. CM: Canadian Review of Materials (Winnipeg), 27 April 2001. https://www.cmreviews.ca/cm/vol7/no17/anne.html.

Also in Children’s Literature Review, Volume 91, edited by Scot Peacock, 183–84. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

Nielsen, Val. Review of Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson. CM: Canadian Review of Materials (Winnipeg), 24 October 2008. https://www.cmreviews.ca/cm/vol15/no5/beforegreengables.html.

Nielsen, Valerie. Review of The Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery. CM: Canadian Review of Materials (Winnipeg), 1 May 2009. https://www.cmreviews.ca/cm/vol15/no18/thegreengablescollection.html.

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Maria Nikolajeva

Book-Length Study (1)

Nikolajeva, Maria. The Rhetoric of Character in Children’s Literature. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Book Chapter (1)

Nikolajeva, Maria. “Beyond Happily Ever After: The Aesthetic Dilemma of Multivolume Fiction for Children.” In Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre, 197–213. New York: Routledge, 2013. Children’s Literature and Culture.

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Kateryna Nikolenko

Journal Article (1)

Nikolenko, Olga, and Kateryna Nikolenko. “‘We All Need Some Kind of Fairy Tale’: Reading H.C. Andersen and L.M. Montgomery in Tumultuous Times.” In “International Notes on L.M. Montgomery,” edited by Lesley D. Clement and E. Holly Pike. Special collection, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 26 May 2023. https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2023.0002.

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Olga Nikolenko

Journal Article (1)

Nikolenko, Olga, and Kateryna Nikolenko. “‘We All Need Some Kind of Fairy Tale’: Reading H.C. Andersen and L.M. Montgomery in Tumultuous Times.” In “International Notes on L.M. Montgomery,” edited by Lesley D. Clement and E. Holly Pike. Special collection, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 26 May 2023. https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2023.0002.

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Jason Nisenson

Review (1)

Nisenson, Jason. Review of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 3: A Legacy in Review, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 54, no. 1–2 (Spring–Fall 2016): 158–61. https://doi.org/10.33137/pbsc.v54i1-2.26848.

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Mary H. Nixon

Newsletter Item (1)

Nixon, Mary H. “A Multiple Choice LMM Quiz.” The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 19 (Spring 1997): 25, 31.

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Beate Nock

Paratext (1)

Nock, Beate. “Epilogue: A Letter from Germany.” Translated by Irene Gammel. In Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, edited by Irene Gammel, 317–20. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

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Perry Nodelman

Book Chapter (1)

Nodelman, Perry. “Progressive Utopia: Or, How to Grow Up without Growing Up.” In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, University of Toronto, March 1979, edited by Priscilla A. Ord, 146–54. Villanova, PA: Villanova University, 1980. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.1979.0006.

Also in Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, edited by Mavis Reimer, 29–38. N.p.: Children’s Literature Association; Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

Journal Articles (3)

Nodelman, Perry. “The Other: Orientalism, Colonialism, and Children’s Literature.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 17, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 29–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1006.

Nodelman, Perry. “Pleasure and Genre: Speculations on the Characteristics of Children’s Fiction.” Children’s Literature 28 (2000): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.0.0563.

Nodelman, Perry. “Rereading Anne of Green Gables in Anne of Ingleside: L.M. Montgomery’s Variations.” Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 75–97. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4923.

Paratext (1)

Nodelman, Perry. “Goodnight, Sweet Prints.” Editorial to Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 1–4. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4918.

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Tara Nogler

Book Chapter (1)

Nogler, Tara. “Snapshot: My Life as Anne in Japan.” In Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, edited by Irene Gammel, 286–94. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

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Jason Nolan

Book Chapters (3)

Kajihara, Yuka, and D. Jason Nolan. “Remembering Maud in Toronto.” In The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album, compiled by Kevin McCabe, edited by Alexandra Heilbron, 312–21. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1999.

Nolan, D. Jason, and Joel Weiss. “Learning in Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community.” In Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, edited by K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar, 293–320. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Nolan, Jason. “Learning with Anne: Early Childhood Education Looks at New Media for Young Girls.” In Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables, edited by Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre, 117–33. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690233-009.

Journal Article (1)

Nolan, D. Jason, Jeff Lawrence, and Yuka Kajihara. “Montgomery’s Island in the Net: Metaphor and Community on the Kindred Spirits E-mail List.” In “L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture.” Special issue, Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 91–92 (Fall–Winter 1998): 64–77. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4494.

Reviews (3)

Nolan, Jason. “Digitizing Anne: Anne of Green Gables, An Interactive CD-ROM Novel.” Review of Anne of Green Gables: An Interactive CD-ROM, by Renaissance Interactive Studios. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 91–92 (Fall–Winter 1998): 173. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4524.

Nolan, Jason, and Yuka Kajihara. “Too Many Bends in the Road.” Review of The Bend in the Road: An Invitation to the World and Work of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, Deirdre Kessler, and Anne-Louise Brookes. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 103 (Fall 2001): 69–70. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/3802.

Nolan, Jason. “In the First Person.” Review of Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Alexandra Heilbron. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 109–10 (Spring–Summer 2003): 151–54. https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/3960.

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Stephanie Nolen

Newspaper Items (2)

Nolen, Stephanie. “Anne Rage: It’s Prince Edward Island’s Dirty Little Secret.” Globe and Mail (Toronto), 11 September 1999.

Nolen, Stephanie. “Does Lesbianism Underlie Anne of Green Gables?” Globe and Mail (Toronto), 31 May 2000, A1.

Review (1)

Nolen, Stephanie. “Life of Anne’s Creator Misses the Romance.” Review of Maud’s House of Dreams: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Janet Lunn. Globe and Mail (Toronto), 30 November 2002, D27.

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Idette Noomé

Book Chapter (1)

Noomé, Idette. “The Nature of the Beast: Pets and People in L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction.” In L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), edited by Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell, 198–211, 245–49. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.

Journal Article (1)

Noomé, Idette. “Shaping the Self: A Bildungsroman for Girls?” Literator 25, no. 3 (November 2004): 125–49. https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.267.

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E. Blanche Norcross

Book-Length Biography (1)

Norcross, E. Blanche. Pioneers Every One: Canadian Women of Achievement. N.p.: Burns and MacEachern, 1979.

See esp. “Maud Montgomery,” 77–87.

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Marek Norman

Book-Length Extension (1)

Ouzounian, Richard, and Marek Norman. Emily. A new musical based on Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, and Emily’s Quest, by L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: McArthur and Company, 2000.

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Laurie Glenn Norris

Reviews (2)

Norris, Laurie Glenn. “Rediscovering Anne.” Review of The Blythes Are Quoted, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB), 2 January 2010, G6.

Norris, Laurie Glenn. “Clippings and Context.” Review of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB), 18 January 2014, F6.

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Michael O. Nowlan

Reviews (3)

Nowlan, Michael O. Review of The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe. The Atlantic Advocate (Fredericton), February 1989, 44–45.

Nowlan, Michael O. Review of Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst. The Atlantic Advocate (Fredericton), December 1989, 60–61.

Nowlan, Michael O. Review of Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst. The Atlantic Advocate (Fredericton), February 1991, 45.

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Aoi Nozawa

Newsletter Item (1)

Nozawa, Aoi. “To Some Japanese Ladies, Happiness on Earth.” Kindred Spirits, Spring 2000, 20.

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Mary Nygard

Newsletter Item (1)

Nygard, Paul, and Mary Nygard. “A Daring Adventure with the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario.” Cordially Yours, Winter 2010, 5–6.

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Paul Nygard

Newsletter Item (1)

Nygard, Paul, and Mary Nygard. “A Daring Adventure with the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario.” Cordially Yours, Winter 2010, 5–6.

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