Illustration, in a campy, 1970s cartoon style, of a young girl and an elderly woman sitting together on a stone bench in a natural environment, with a full moon shining in the background.

L.M. Montgomery’s Character Pairs

The fifth Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event consists of an open discussion character pairs in L.M. Montgomery’s work.

Contents
The Event
The Participants
The Video
Image Credit

The Event

The fifth Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event consists of an open discussion character pairs in L.M. Montgomery’s work. For this event, the organizers invited readers of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction to consider their favourite character pairs in her work: a romantic couple, a pair of friends, an adult and a young person, a pair of siblings, or two people in conflict. What is it about these relationships that are mutually supportive and enriching—or not? What is the secret to their bond, whether or not they are kindred spirits? And what motivates some characters to sacrifice personal relationships for the sake of something else, like higher education or an artistic practice? Participants were invited to share their ideas, read a key quotation, and reflect on the choices Montgomery made—and didn’t make—as she wrote her books.

The Participants

Host/Moderator

Benjamin Lefebvre

Chat Moderator

Caroline E. Jones

Steering Committee

Melanie J. Fishbane, Sarah Goff, Daniela Janes, Caroline E. Jones, Yuka Kajihara, Benjamin Lefebvre, Andrea McKenzie, and Kate Sutherland

The Video

Image Credit

Detail from the cover of the Canadian Favourites edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1977. Artist unidentified. The scanned copy is in the site owner’s personal collection.

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