Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery’s thirteenth book, was published in August 1923 by McClelland & Stewart and Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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Contents
About Emily of New Moon
Dedication
Chapters
Editions of Emily of New Moon
Adaptations of Emily of New Moon
Reviews of Emily of New Moon
Related page: Reviews of Books by L.M. Montgomery: 1923–1939
About Emily of New Moon
Emily of New Moon is the first of three books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, followed by Emily Climbs (1925) and Emily’s Quest (1927). It was preceded by Rilla of Ingleside (1921), which Montgomery had vowed to be the last of the Anne books.
Dedication
To
Mr. George Boyd Macmillan
Alloa, Scotland
in recognition of
a long and stimulating friendship
Chapters
I. The House in the Hollow
II. A Watch in the Night
III. A Hop out of Kin
IV. A Family Conclave
V. Diamond Cut Diamond
VI. New Moon
VII. The Book of Yesterday
VIII. Trial by Fire
IX. A Special Providence
X. Growing Pains
XI. Ilse
XII. The Tansy Patch
XIII. A Daughter of Eve
XIV. Fancy Fed
XV. Various Tragedies
XVI. Check for Miss Brownell
XVII. Living Epistles
XVIII. Father Cassidy
XIX. Friends Again
XX. By Aerial Post
XXI. “Romantic but not Comfortable”
XXII. Wyther Grange
XXIII. Deals with Ghosts
XXIV. A Different Kind of Happiness
XXV. “She Couldn’t Have Done It”
XXVI. On the Bay Shore
XXVII. The Vow of Emily
XXVIII. A Weaver of Dreams
XXIX. Sacrilege
XXX. When the Curtain Lifted
XXXI. Emily’s Great Moment
Editions of Emily of New Moon
McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) published the first Canadian edition of Emily of New Moon in 1923, with cover art and a full-colour frontispiece illustration by M.L. Kirk. Some later printings of the McClelland and Stewart edition include an erroneous copyright date of 1925. Later McClelland and Stewart editions included a Cavendish Library edition in 1947, a Canadian Favourites edition in 1973, and New Canadian Library editions in 1989 and 2007.
Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York) published the first U.S. edition of Emily of New Moon in 1923. 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 of New Moon in 1923. George G. Harrap and Company (London) published a new edition in 1928.
Angus and Robertson (Sydney) published the first Australian edition of Emily of New Moon in 1925, through its Cornstalk Publishing Company imprint. It published subsequent editions throughout the twentieth century.
Adaptations of Emily of New Moon
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 of New Moon
Reviews of Emily of New Moon that have been located so far appeared in periodicals from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Volume 3 of The L.M. Montgomery Reader includes the full text of eleven reviews of Emily of New Moon.
“Emily is only a 10-year-old child who gets to be 12 before the story ends, so that the book might by some critics be classed as a juvenile. But such classification would tend to damn it with faint praise. Emily is far older than the calendar allows, and while youngsters will enjoy her story, their elders will appreciate it more.”
—The Springfield (MA) Sunday Republican
“Miss Montgomery’s literary gift is genuine; she conveys to the reader a delicious sense of leisure and space, there is, in her work, none of that effect of breathless rush which characterizes so many of the books now offered for the delectation of the rising generation; the author of Emily of New Moon is blessed with a keen eye for character, an ample fund of kindly humor, and with the power to hold her reader’s interest from start to finish.”
—The Hartford (CT) Courant