Magic for Marigold, L.M. Montgomery’s seventeenth book, was published in 1929 by McClelland & Stewart and Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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Contents
About Magic for Marigold Dedication Chapters Editions of Magic for Marigold Reviews of Magic for Marigold
About Magic for Marigold
Magic for Marigold focuses on Marigold Lesley, an imaginative girl growing up amid a large extended family.
Dedication
To
Nora
in memory of a world
that has passed away
Chapters
I. What’s in a Name?
II. Sealed of the Tribe
III. April Promise
IV. Marigold Goes A-visiting
V. The Door That Men Call Death
VI. The Power of the Dog
VII. Lost Laughter
VIII. “It”
IX. A Lesley Christmas
X. The Bobbing of Marigold
XI. A Counsel of Perfection
XII. Marigold Entertains
XIII. A Ghost Is Laid
XIV. Bitterness of Soul
XV. One Clear Call
XVI. One of Us
XVII. Not by Bread Alone
XVIII. Red Ink or—?
XIX. How It Came to Pass
XX. The Punishment of Billy
XXI. Her Chrism of Womanhood
Editions of Magic for Marigold
McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) published the first Canadian edition of Magic for Marigold in 1929, with cover art and a frontispiece illustration by Edna Cooke Shoemaker. Later McClelland and Stewart editions included a Cavendish Library edition in 1947, a Canadian Favourites edition in 1977, and a new edition in 1989.
Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York) published the first U.S. edition of Magic for Marigold in 1929. 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 Magic for Marigold in 1929. George G. Harrap and Company (London) published a new edition in 1935.
Angus and Robertson (Sydney) published the first Australian edition of Magic for Marigold in 1929, through its Cornstalk Publishing Company imprint. It published subsequent editions throughout the twentieth century.
Reviews of Magic for Marigold
Reviews of Magic for Marigold 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 fourteen reviews of Magic for Marigold.
“It would be too bad if anyone should think of this as a children’s book and so miss it, for while it is that, it is much more. It has character analysis, accurate genetic psychology, poetic quality, and a style. Also it makes you laugh, makes you cry; the spirit of it is contagious.”
—Mary Hinkley, Chicago Evening Post
“Few writers have such a keen understanding of children and their mental processes as to enable them to write a full-size novel around such a simple subject, yet in the very simplicity of the nature of children lies the complexity of writing about them. Mr. Montgomery has this understanding in large measure as he has many times demonstrated, and this, his latest book, is a delight to read.”
—The Oregonian (Portland, OR)