Round Table on Rilla of Ingleside

The second Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event consists of a round table discussion of Montgomery’s novel Rilla of Ingleside.

Contents

The Event
The Participants
The Video
Image Credit

The Event

The second Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event consists a round table discussion of L.M. Montgomery’s 1921 novel Rilla of Ingleside, a sequel to Anne of Green Gables and a work of historical and literary significance as one of the few near-contemporaneous fictional accounts of the Canadian home front during the First World War. This is also the book that started the L.M. Montgomery Readathon in March 2020. Maureen O. Gallagher, Benjamin Lefebvre, and Andrea McKenzie discuss the novel in terms of women’s homefront experiences, the way it was abridged in the 1970s, and its subversions of cultural war myths.

The Participants

Host

Kate Sutherland

Moderator

Caroline E. Jones

Chat Moderators

Sarah Goff and Daniela Janes

Speakers

Maureen O. Gallagher, L.M. Montgomery’s Reframing of the Great War Through Women’s Homefront Experiences
Benjamin Lefebvre, The Abridgement of Rilla of Ingleside
Andrea McKenzie, L.M. Montgomery’s Subversions of Cultural War Myths

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 1973. Artist unidentified. The scanned copy is in the site owner’s personal collection.