What follows is a list of literary allusions appearing in L.M. Montgomery’s collection of linked short stories Chronicles of Avonlea, first published in 1912.
{ Epigraph } { 1. The Hurrying of Ludovic } { 2. Old Lady Lloyd } { 3. Each in His Own Tongue } { 4. Little Joscelyn } { 5. The Winning of Lucinda } { 6. Old Man Shaw’s Girl } { 7. Aunt Olivia’s Beau } { 8. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham’s } { 9. Pa Sloane’s Purchase } { 10. The Courting of Prissy Strong } { 11. The Miracle at Carmody } { 12. The End of a Quarrel }
Epigraph
The unsung beauty hid / life’s common things below. —Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier, “Songs of Labor” (1850 poem), dedication, line 30: “The unsung beauty hid life’s common things below.”
1. The Hurrying of Ludovic
a delusion and a snare Properly, “a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.” From Thomas Denman (1779–1854), British judge and politician, in his judgment on the case of Daniel O’Connel vs. The Queen (1844).
the alligator in the old rhyme, who wouldn’t go along, and wouldn’t keep still, but just kept bobbing up and down Unknown.
’twas a crowded hour of glorious life Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, “The Call” (1791 poem): “One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name” (lines 3–4).
2. Old Lady Lloyd
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3. Each in His Own Tongue
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4. Little Joscelyn
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5. The Winning of Lucinda
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6. Old Man Shaw’s Girl
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7. Aunt Olivia’s Beau
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8. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham’s
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9. Pa Sloane’s Purchase
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10. The Courting of Prissy Strong
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11. The Miracle at Carmody
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12. The End of a Quarrel
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