Emily Climbs, L.M. Montgomery’s fourteenth book, was published in September 1925 by McClelland & Stewart and Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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Contents
About Emily Climbs
Dedication
Chapters
Editions of Emily Climbs
Adaptations of Emily Climbs
Reviews of Emily Climbs
Related page: Reviews of Books by L.M. Montgomery: 1923–1939
About Emily Climbs
Emily Climbs is the second of three books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, preceded by Emily of New Moon (1923) and followed by Emily’s Quest (1927). Prior to the publication of Emily’s Quest, however, she published The Blue Castle (1926).
Dedication
To
“Pastor Felix”
in
affectionate appreciation
Chapters
I. Writing Herself Out
II. Salad Days
III. In the Watches of the Night
IV. “As Ithers See Us”
V. Half a Loaf
VI. Shrewsbury Beginnings
VII. Pot-Pourri
VIII. Not Proven
IX. A Supreme Moment
X. The Madness of an Hour
XI. Heights and Hollows
XII. At the Sign of the Haystack
XIII. Haven
XIV. The Woman Who Spanked the King
XV. “The Thing That Couldn’t”
XVI. Driftwood
XVII. “If a Body Kiss a Body”
XVIII. Circumstantial Evidence
XIX. “Airy Voices”
XX. In the Old John House
XXI. Thicker Than Water
XXII. “Love Me, Love My Dog”
XXIII. An Open Door
XXIV. A Valley of Vision
XXV. April Love
Editions of Emily Climbs
McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) published the first Canadian edition of Emily Climbs in 1925, with cover art and a full-colour frontispiece illustration by M.L. Kirk. Later McClelland and Stewart editions included a Cavendish Library edition in 1947, a Canadian Favourites edition in 1974, and New Canadian Library editions in 1989 and 2009.
Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York) published the first U.S. edition of Emily Climbs in 1925. It is identical to the first Canadian edition. Stokes licensed reprint editions to A.L. Burt Company (New York) and Grosset and Dunlap (New York).
Hodder and Stoughton (London) published the first UK edition of Emily Climbs in 1925. George G. Harrap and Company (London) published a new edition in 1928.
Angus and Robertson (Sydney) published the first Australian edition of Emily Climbs in 1925, through its Cornstalk Publishing Company imprint. It published subsequent editions throughout the twentieth century.
Adaptations of Emily Climbs
A television series based on Emily of New Moon and its sequels, starring Martha MacIsaac, Stephen McHattie, and Sheila McCarthy, was filmed in Prince Edward Island and aired between 1998 and 2003.
Reviews of Emily Climbs
Reviews of Emily Climbs that have been located so far appeared in periodicals from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Volume 3 of The L.M. Montgomery Reader includes the full text of twenty reviews of Emily Climbs.
“Emily Climbs is sentimental stuff, but Mrs. Montgomery has descriptive qualities enough to keep her characters alive, and to paint them for us as she imagines them to be.”
—Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Miss Montgomery has an unusually successful way of establishing her heroines in the hearts of her readers. It is the definite and the recurrent charm of her books.”
—Boston Evening Transcript
“This high-spirited girl, whose impulsive character and love of adventure inevitably lead her into all sorts of situations, both humorous and embarrassing, is a genuinely attractive type, lovable, whimsical, full of romance, but never weak or maudlin. Emily is a happy and worthy successor of the beloved Anne.”
—The Montreal Daily Star
“Miss Montgomery is a genuinely gifted writer of books of this type, sensible, wholesome, old-fashioned stories suggesting the tales of the lamented Louisa M. Alcott. It is interesting to note that there is still a vogue for such books, sophisticated and disillusioned as the oncoming generation is supposed to be.”
—The Hartford (CT) Courant