Dissertations/Theses

This page lists dissertations, theses, and major research papers written about L.M. Montgomery’s life, work, and legacy since 1961.
Number of items: 152

1946 (1)

Magee, William Henry. “The Growth of Canadian National Feeling as Reflected in the Poetry and Novels of English Canada.” MA thesis, University of British Columbia, 1946. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0105877.

See esp. chapter 4, “Canadianism and Canadian Literature in the First Two Decades of the Twentieth Century,” 91–126.

1961 (1)

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

1967 (1)

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

1975 (1)

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

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.

1978 (1)

Precosky, Donald Alexander. “Canadian Poetry in English 1910 to 1925: The Beginnings of Modernism.” PhD dissertation, University of New Brunswick, 1978.

See esp. chapter 2, “The Canadian Milieu, 1910–1925,” 21–52.

1979 (1)

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

1980 (1)

Smith, Sara Paige. “Anne of Green Gables: A Television Series.” MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980.

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.

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.

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.

1985 (3)

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.

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

Somerville, J. Christine. “Stories and Storytelling in Alice Munro’s Fiction.” MA thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0096514.

See esp. chapter 5, “Life as a Recurring Story,” 126–63.

1986 (2)

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

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

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.

1989 (2)

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

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

1991 (4)

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.

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.

Preface, 7–10.

Part I. Gossip, Gospel or Gothic? An Introduction to Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1, “Positions,” 13–25. 2, “Points of Departure,” 26–36. 3, “Gossip, Gospel or Gothic? Critical Approaches and Methods,” 37–44. 4, “‘The Problem of a Canadian Literature’: L.M. Montgomery and the Canadian Literary Tradition,” 45–52.

Part II. The Story of Anne Shirley: A Journey Away from Self. “Introduction to Part II,” 55–56. 5, Anne of Green Gables: A Critical Introduction,” 57–73. 6, “Anne Shirley,” 74–114. 7, “Realms of the Mind,” 115–42. 8, “Anne’s House of Dreams: Marriage as Heaven and Hell,” 143–68.

Appendix 1: “Books by L.M. Montgomery,” 169–70. Appendix 2: “Articles on L.M. Montgomery,” 171–72. Works Cited, 173–79. Index, 180–83.

Chapter 6, “Anne Shirley,” excerpted as “Lying and the Imagination” in Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, 370–81. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007. A Norton Critical Edition.

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

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 (Fin.), 1992.

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.

1995 (3)

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.

Frascona, Charlotte M. “Reading Women: Attachment and Female Creation of a Self Through Fiction.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1995.

See esp. chapter 3, “The Appeal of Girls’ Books,” 142–267.

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.

1998 (4)

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. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/545/.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Litster, Jennifer H. “The Scottish Context of L.M. Montgomery.” PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh (UK), 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/1842/34966.

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.”

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

2002 (2)

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.

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.

2003 (1)

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

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.

2005 (6)

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

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

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.

Sanders, Joseph Charles. “What Can I Do with a Girl? Discipline and Privilege at the Turn of the Century.” PhD dissertation, University of Kentucky, 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.

2006 (3)

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.

Marotta, Jennifer Susan. “A Moral Messenger to the Canadian Middlemost: A Reading of The Family Herald and Weekly Star, 1874–1914.” PhD dissertation, Queen’s University, 2006.

See esp. chapter 2, “From Humble Beginnings to Media Mogul: Hugh Graham and His Weekly,” 60–123.

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.

2007 (3)

Campbell, Rebecca. “We Gave Our Glorious Laddies: Canadian Women’s War Poetry, 1915–1920.” MA thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0100930.

See esp. “Prologue: The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” 1–13; chapter 2, “Our Homeric Age,” 26–40.

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.

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.

2008 (5)

Terry, Natalie Ann. “‘A Woman That Feareth the Lord, She Shall Be Praised”: An Ethical-Critical Analysis of Theological Rogues in Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Series.” MA thesis, Baylor University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2104/5149.

See esp. chapter 1, “Introduction,” 1–7; chapter 3, “Imagination and Religious Non-conformity in L.M. Montgomery’s Novels,” 41–79; chapter 4, “Imagination and Incarnation: The Interplay of Author, Character, and Reader,” 80–113; chapter 5, “Conclusion,” 114–16.

Smith, Michelle Denise. “Model Nation: Identity and Citizenship in Canadian Women’s Mass-Market Magazines, 1928–45.” PhD dissertation, University of Alberta, 2008. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-pxrp-3×72.

See esp. chapter 1, “Producing Magazines, Producing Canada, 25–118; chapter 3, “Fiction and the Nation: Constructing Canadian Identity in Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal,” 173–208.

Trogen, Kari. “Maud.” MA thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2008.

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

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.

2009 (5)

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

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.

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.

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

Chilewska, Anna. “The Translated Child: Children’s Literature in Translation in Communist and Post-Communist Poland.” PhD dissertation, University of Alberta, 2009.

2010 (4)

Spring, Erin. “A Map of Anne: Space, Place, and Identity Construction in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Series.” MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge (UK), 2010.

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.

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.

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.

2011 (5)

Ward, Sydney. “Canonical Children’s Literature: The Literary Quality in Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and The Secret Garden.” BA thesis, Middlebury College, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/middlebury.21537489.v1.

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.

Virokannas, Maria. “The Complex Anne-Grrrl: A Third Wave Feminist Re-reading of Anne of Green Gables.” Post-graduate thesis, University of Tampere (Fin.), 2011. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-22210.

2012 (4)

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.

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.

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.

Galletly, Sarah. “Work, Class, and Gender in Canadian Fiction, 1890s–1920s.” PhD dissertation, University of Strathclyde (UK), 2012. https://doi.org/10.48730/kc12-p427.

2013 (4)

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

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.

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.

Heiniger, Abigail Ruth. “Jane Eyre and Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman and Constructions of National Identity.” PhD dissertation, Wayne State University, 2013. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/660.

2014 (2)

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

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.

2015 (4)

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.

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.

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.

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.

2016 (6)

Doody, Christopher M. “A Union of the Inkpot: The Canadian Authors Association, 1921–1960.” PhD dissertation, Carleton University, 2016. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2016-11733.

See esp. Introduction, 1–51; chapter 1, “Copyright Reform and Canadian Book Week,” 52–100.

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/.

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.

2018 (3)

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/node/1963.

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.

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.

2019 (3)

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

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

Ashworth, Georgia Rose. “The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary Settings into Heritage Sites.” MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge (UK), 2019. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.46065.

2020 (6)

Foote, Josh. “Let’s Be Civil: The Ambivalences of Civility in the Novels by L.M. Montgomery, Sara Jeannette Duncan, and Nellie McClung.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 2020. https://scholar.acadiau.ca/node/2371.

See esp. “Introduction: White Normativity and the Construction of the ‘Civil’ Canadian Subject,” 1–9; chapter 1, “Women’s Role in the Elevation of Civility: The Exaltation of English Canadian Whiteness,” 11–30; chapter 2, “Montgomery’s Models of Civility: Women as Educators and Caretakers in Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside,” 32–63.

Gazda, Zofia. “Differences in the Creation of the Main Characters of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables in the Novel’s Two Polish Translations by Rozalia Bernsteinowa and Paweł Beręsewicz.” MA thesis, Jagiellonian University (Pol.), 2020. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/250425.

Niewitowska, Kornelia. “Two ‘Matriarchal Utopias’: A Comparative Study of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery and Its Netflix Adaptation.” BA thesis, Jagiellonian University (Pol.), 2020. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/248676.

Collemacine, Kristi. “Call Me Cordelia: Naming and Identity Formation of Young Girls in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literature.” MA thesis, Rutgers University, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7282/t3-kwxf-wy43.

See esp. introduction, 1–3; “The Molding of a World: Jane Eyre and Anne of Green Gables,” 4–24; conclusion, 41–42.

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.

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.

2021 (7)

Onty, Jannatul Ferdose. “Tracing the Differences in the Representation of ‘Queer’ Identity Found in Few 20th and 21st Century Novels.” MA thesis, Brac University (Bang.), 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.

Dirkx, Aline. “L.M. Montgomery et le phénomène d’Anne of Green Gables sous la loupe du féminisme.” MA thesis, Université catholique de Louvain (Bel.), 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/thesis:33460.

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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Marr, Gemma. “The Bucolic, the Backwoods, and the In-Between: Navigating Desire in Atlantic Canadian Literature.” PhD dissertation, Carleton University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2022-15334.

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.

Benatmane, Tinhinane, and Wafaa Benmoussa. “Gendered Language in Lucy M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’” MA thesis, Ibn Khaldun University of Tiaret (Alg.), 2022. http://dspace.univ-tiaret.dz/handle/123456789/2356.

Joyce, Amy. “Who Says It’s a Man’s World: Women’s Post-secondary Education in the Maritime Provinces to 1930.” MA thesis, McGill University, 2022. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/3r0751361.

See esp. chapter 3, “Home Away from Home: Life in Residence,” 44–60.

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.

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.

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.

Becerra Santamaria, Aida. “Becoming Somebody: Identity and Coming of Age in Anne of Green Gables and The Graveyard Book.” BA thesis, Universitat de Lleida (Sp.), 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/84348.

Jelin, Hanna. “Souls of Good Violets: The Significance of Fragrances for Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables as Related Through Embodied Descriptions.” MA thesis, University of Helsinki (Fin.), 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10138/344938.

Gallant, Rowen Amos. “Commodification of Traditional Musical Modalities and Cultural Identity (Re)constructions on Prince Edward Island, 1980s to the Present.” BA thesis, University of Prince Edward Island, 2022. https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:24763.

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 (Lith.), 2022. https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:143534259/.

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Hinshaw, Lauren M. “The Acceptance of Womanhood: Gender Performance and Self-Actualization in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island.” MA thesis, Eastern Washington University, 2023. https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/860.

Anderson, Marie E. “Fighting for What Is Right: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Fan Campaign to Save Anne with an E from Cancellation.” MA thesis, South Dakota State University, 2023. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd2/714/.

McCord, Alana Alexandra Harton Morgan. “‘Beauty, Garlanded in Hell’: The Tenacity of Cultural Christianity in First World War Britain and Canada.” PhD dissertation, St. Michael’s College (University of Toronto), 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/135466.

See esp. chapter 6, “‘And We Must Follow’: Legacy in War and Interwar Literature and Commemoration,” 136–79.

Rahma, Haifa. “The Implications of Patriarchal Culture Toward Gender Discrimination Behavior in Anne with an E Movie Series.” BA thesis, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (Ind.), 2023. https://repository.uinjkt.ac.id/dspace/handle/123456789/74478.

Pino López, Antía. “Shedding Light on the Translation of Idioms: A Study Based on American TV Series.” BA thesis, Universidade da Coruña (Sp.), 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/2183/34196.

Nuril Hakim, Ahmad Rizal Zidan. “Anne’s Motivation to Reach a Better Life Described in Anne of Green Gables.” BA thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang (Ind.), 2023. https://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/57070/.

Sallent Fortes, Aina. “‘Imagining Better than Remembering’: How Netflix’s Anne with an E Rewrote Montgomery’s Classic for Modern Audiences.” BA thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Sp.), 2023. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/292049.

Sebti, Manal. “The Conflict Between Imagination and Societal Expectations in Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” MA thesis, Université de Biskra (Alg.), 2023. http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/26815.

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.

Steele, Fiona Ruth. “When Stories Lead to Sustainable Tourism: The Role Podcasting Plays in the Development of Sustainable Tourism on Islands.” MA thesis, University of Prince Edward Island, 2023. https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:25325/. See esp. “Findings—Overview,” 45–86.

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Nilenfors, Elsa. “Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” BA thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad (Swed.), 2024. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-52534.

Grzanka, Zuzanna. “Anne, Ania, or Anna? Culture-Specific Items in the Polish Translations of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Novels Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea.” MA thesis, Jagiellonian University (Pol.), 2024. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/handle/item/373395.

Tesorero, Oliver B., Jr. “Anne’s Vocabulary: A Discourse Analysis of How the Netflix Series ‘Anne with an E’ Represented a Sesquipedalian.” BA thesis, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, 2024. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24924.60801.