Further Chronicles of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery’s eleventh book, was published in March 1920 by The Page Company (Boston).
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Related page: Reviews of Books by L.M. Montgomery: 1908–1921
About Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Further Chronicles of Avonlea is the seventh of eleven books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Anne Shirley Blythe, preceded by Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), and Rainbow Valley (1919), and followed by Rilla of Ingleside (1921), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne of Ingleside (1939), and The Blythes Are Quoted (2009).
Although the book consists of fifteen stories that were not chosen for inclusion in Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), Montgomery agreed to this publication reluctantly at the end of a lawsuit in which she sold to her publisher all remaining rights to her first seven books for approximately US$18,000, under the condition that there be no mention of Anne Shirley in the book nor any depiction of her on its cover. After she had revised the stories to remove mentions of Anne and descriptive sections that she had used in her post-1912 books, Page revealed his intention to publish the 1912 versions that he had in his possession, even though this violated the terms of their agreement. Montgomery’s legal battle with the Page Company was not settled until 1928, but in the end she was victorious and the bootleg book was taken off the market. It was republished in the mid-1950s, however, and remains in print today.
Chapters
I. Aunt Cynthia’s Persian Cat
II. The Materializing of Cecil
III. Her Father’s Daughter
IV. Jane’s Baby
V. The Dream-Child
VI. The Brother Who Failed
VII. The Return of Hester
VIII. The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily
IX. Sara’s Way
X. The Son of His Mother
XI. The Education of Betty
XII. In Her Selfless Mood
XIII. The Conscience Case of David Bell
XIV. Only a Common Fellow
XV. Tannis of the Flats
Editions of Further Chronicles of Avonlea
The Page Company (Boston) published the first edition of Further Chronicles of Avonlea in April 1920. This first edition contains cover art and six black and white illustrations by John Goss. Page released a new edition in 1953 and licensed reprint editions to Grosset and Dunlap (New York).
George G. Harrap and Company (London) published the first UK edition of Further Chronicles of Avonlea in 1925. Harrap published a new edition in 1954.
Angus and Robertson (Sydney) published the first Australian edition of Further Chronicles of Avonlea in 1953.
The Ryerson Press published the first Canadian edition of Further Chronicles of Avonlea in September 1953. The Ryerson Press reprinted this edition for several decades, even after the press became McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1970.
Adaptations of Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Further Chronicles of Avonlea formed part of the basis for the popular television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996), as did The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea, and The Golden Road.
Reviews of Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Reviews of Further Chronicles of Avonlea that have been located so far appeared in periodicals from the United States.
Volume 3 of The L.M. Montgomery Reader includes the full text of seven reviews of Further Chronicles of Avonlea.
“The ‘Avonlea Books’ by Miss Montgomery have appealed more potently to readers of fine fiction than any other literary productions of the last decade. They have afforded acquaintance with a people whose homely virtues, whose daily doings, whose romances, loves, purposes and frailties have been presented with such life-like fidelity and such absorbing interest that the reader seemed transported to their little community, to become part and parcel of them.”
—Wilmington Every Evening (Delaware)
“Miss Montgomery is fast becoming one of those writers whose influence will long outlive her. They are not tales of the moment, but stories of the ages. Many years hence those who follow us will select Miss Montgomery’s stories naturally as those which faithfully recreate the spirit of their time, and it will be nothing more than they deserve.”
—Unidentified review in L.M. Montgomery’s Scrapbook of Reviews
“Only a genius of the first water could conjure up such charming stories as Miss Montgomery has given in her Avonlea incidents.”
—The Evening Missourian (Columbia, MO)