Round Table on The Blue Castle

The inaugural Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event consists of a round table discussion of Montgomery’s novel The Blue Castle.

Contents

The Event
The Participants
The Video
Image Credit

The Event

The inaugural Conversations About L.M. Montgomery event is a round table discussion of L.M. Montgomery’s 1926 novel The Blue Castle, set in Ontario and depicting twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling, who flees her oppressive home life after she receives life-altering news. Readers around the world frequently claim The Blue Castle as a favourite Montgomery novel, and this event coincides with a discussion of it on the L.M. Montgomery Readathon. Tara K. Parmiter, Rachel McMillan, and Caroline E. Jones talk about the novel in terms of the environment, romance, and the figure of the “bad girl.”

The Participants

Host

Andrea McKenzie

Moderator

Benjamin Lefebvre

Chat Moderator

Kate Sutherland

Speakers

Caroline E. Jones, The Blue Castle and the Bad Girl
Rachel McMillan, The Blue Castle and Romance
Tara K. Parmiter, The Blue Castle and the Environment

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 The Blue Castle, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972. Artist unidentified. The scanned copy is in the site owner’s personal collection.