This page lists dissertations, theses, and major research papers written about L.M. Montgomery since 1961, arranged in reverse chronological order.
2022 (5)
Sabaliauskaitė, Greta. “Anne Adapted: A (Con)textual Analysis of L.M. Montgomery’s Novel Anne of Green Gables and Anne with an E.” M.A. thesis, Vilnius University, 2022. https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:143534259/.
McCabe, Taylor D. “Girls Never Grow Up: Generic Impossibility and Narrative Tension in the Late-Nineteenth Century Maturation Serial.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2022. See esp. chapter 1, “Queer Places and In-Between Times: Forestalling Expectations and the Pleasures of Delay in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Series,” pp. 21–57. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8157639k.
Jeong, Hanseul. “Mediated Film Tourists’ Experiences: Navigating Anne with an E-Inspired Travelogues on Social Media.” M.A. thesis, University of Calgary, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39819.
Hathorn, Taylor McKay. “‘Didn’t Shut My Eyes to Pray: Anne Shirley as an Agent of Conversion and Liberation Theology in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, Mississippi College, 2022.
MacCoul, Jennifer. “Scope for the Imagination: Cultivating Craft in the Abandoned Farmscapes of Prince Edward Island.” M.A. thesis, Dalhousie University, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10222/81545.
2021 (5)
Iverson, Tracy Nichole. “An Empty Grave: Grief and Mourning on the Canadian Home Front in the First World War.” M.A. thesis, University of Calgary, 2021. https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39186.
López Torrente, Andrea. “The Courage to Imagine: Anne’s Pursuit of Her Ambitions in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island.” B.A. thesis, Universidad del País Vasco, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10810/55824.
Reed, Ashlyn Nicole. “The Soul Grows by Leaps and Bounds: Analyzing the Diary Structure in Rilla of Ingleside.” Undergraduate Research Scholars thesis, Texas A&M University, 2021. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194341.
Martinsson, Ida. “Ecofeminism in Anne of Green Gables: Giving Up the Connection to Nature and Becoming a Proper Lady.” B.A. thesis, Linköping University, 2021. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177308.
Onty, Jannatul Ferdose. “Tracing the Differences in the Representation of ‘Queer’ Identity Found in Few 20th and 21st Century Novels.” M.A. thesis, Brac University, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10361/16114.
2020 (2)
Hnatow, Alison Elizabeth. “Anne-Girls: Investigating Contemporary Girlhood through Anne with an E.” B.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2020. https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/39898/1/Hnatow_ETD_2020.pdf.
Mark, Sabrina. “To ‘Make Things Move, Somewhere’: Mobility and the Public Roles of Girls and Women in Popular Girls’ Novels, 1900–1920.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Manitoba, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1993/34979.
2019 (2)
Partyka-Sitek, Anna. “Refracting Cultural Faces: Different Annes in Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, Jagiellonian University (Poland), 2019.
Hudson, Allison. “Everyday Magic: The Unique Romanticism of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Dublin City University, 2019.
2018 (3)
Young, Jessica. “A Maud of Her Own: Re-visioning L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Western Eden’ in Melanie Fishbane’s Historical Fiction.” M.A. major research paper, Ryerson University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14660613.
Marcus, Jaclyn. “Reading Dress: Fashion and Friendship in A Little Princess and Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. major research paper, Ryerson University, 2018. See esp. chapter 3, “‘I Thought of My Lovely Puffed Sleeves and Took Courage’: Transformative Dress in Anne of Green Gables.”
Mohabir, Emily Katharina. “Anne of the Imaginative Space: Fan Activities as Textual Negotiation of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Narrative.” M.A. thesis, Acadia University, 2018. https://scholar.acadiau.ca/islandora/object/theses:3184.
2017 (1)
van Heerden, Jeanne-Marie. “‘Little Houses Lovable’: The Portrayal of Houses and Homes in Selected Novels by L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Pretoria, December 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2263/83723.
2016 (2)
Crain, Elizabeth Ann. “The Power of the Other: A Character Analysis of the Orphan Figure in Children’s Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Memphis, 2016. See chapter 4, “‘The Enchanting Realm Beyond’: Pagan Spiritualism in the Orphan Girl Novels of L.M. Montgomery,” 75–103. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1559.
Green, Jessica A. “We’ll Find the Time: Performing Traumatic Hope through Fictions of Child Maltreatment.” M.A. thesis, Purdue University, 2016. See esp. chapter 5, “Montgomery’s Self-Caring Orphans and the Development of the ‘Narrative-I,’” pp. 66–81.
2015 (4)
Gothie, Sarah Conrad. “(Her)itage: Literary Tourism and the Popular Legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2015. See chapter 2, “Playing ‘Anne’: Red Braids, Green Gables, and Literary Tourists on Prince Edward Island,” 75–107. https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113625.
Mark, Sabrina. “Changing Clothes: Female Dress and the Widening Sphere in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Manitoba, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/1993/30352.
Kannas, Vappu. “‘The Forlorn Heroine of a Terribly Sad Life Story’: Romance in the Journals of L.M. Montgomery.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Helsinki, 2015.
Canning, Gregory. “‘A Good Show in a Good House to a Good Audience’: Early Film Exhibition in the Maritime Provinces, 1896–1919.” Ph.D. dissertation, Dalhousie University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10222/80170.
2014 (2)
Osborne, Sarah C. “Meaning and Imagined Memories: Exploring Literary Landscape Theory through the Aesthetics of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10214/8482.
Lee, Katja. “Women’s Celebrity in Canada: Contexts and Memoirs, 1908–2011.” Ph.D. dissertation, McMaster University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/11375/16531.
2013 (3)
Hickey, David S. “After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2013. See esp. “Unearthly Pleasures: The Night Skies of L.M. Montgomery,” 93–158.
Douglas, Jennifer Lynn. “Archiving Authors: Rethinking the Analysis and Representation of Personal Archives.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2013.
Woster, Emily S. “Intertextuality and Life Writing: The Reading Autobiography of L.M. Montgomery.” Ph.D. dissertation, Illinois State University, 2013.
2012 (3)
Stafford, Margot Alison. “The Child and the Book: Imagining Childhood Reading in Anglo-America, 1899–1936.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2012. See chapter 4, “L.M. Montgomery’s Book Friendship for Girl Readers,” 109–53. https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11857/.
Thompson, Rebecca J. “‘That House Belongs to Me’ : The Appropriation of Space, Place, and Heritage in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” M.A. thesis, Seton Hall University, 2012. https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/1816.
DeGagné, Debra Childs. “‘Women Worth Fighting For’: Revaluing Gender and War in Rilla of Ingleside.” M.A. thesis, Royal Military College of Canada, 2012. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR93353.pdf.
2011 (1)
Patchell, Kathleen. “Faith, Fiction, and Fame: Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2011.
2010 (3)
Thomson, Heather. “‘I Think It Well to Search for Truth Everywhere’: Religious Identity and the Construction of the Self in L.M. Montgomery’s Selected Journals.” M.A. thesis, University of Ottawa, 2010.
Macquarrie, Jenn. “Never Was Such a Race of Dancers: Dance and Nation in Canadian Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2010.
Kannas, Vappu. “Down, You Vagabond of a Heart! Romance and Created Personas in the Journals of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Helsinki, 2010.
2009 (4)
Jones, Amber L. “The Natural Progression of an Orphan: L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, Tennessee Technological University, 2009.
Harris, Siân. “The Canadian Künstlerroman: The Creative Protagonist in L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence.” Ph.D. dissertation, Newcastle University, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/10443/1659.
Czerny, Val. “Let Them Run Wild: Childhood, the Nineteenth-Century Storyteller, and the Ascent of the Moon.” Ph.D. dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2009.
Katt, Beverly. “‘A Little Odd’: Representations of Gender in Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, Central Michigan University, 2009.
2008 (2)
Dryden, Jean Elizabeth. “Copyright in the Real World: Making Archival Material Available on the Internet.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2008.
McDonald-Rissanen, Mary. “Sandstone Diaries: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Life Writing.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tampere (Finland), 2008.
2007 (2)
Knoppert, Vivianne. “Dearly Beloved . . . and Departed: Reevaluating the Narrative of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Series.” M.A. thesis, Utrecht University, 2007.
Webb, Peter. “Occupants of Memory: War in Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2007.
2006 (2)
Lefebvre, Benjamin. “Ambivalence, Belonging, Citizenship: Ideology and the Represented Child in Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction in English.” Ph.D. dissertation, McMaster University, 2006.
Hingston, Kylee-Anne. “Abominable Virtues and Cured Faults: Disability, Deviance, and the Double Voice in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2006.
2005 (4)
Shaw, Amy J. “These Strange, Ridiculous and Contradictory Creatures: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2005.
Robertson, Beth. “Reaching Anti-Maudernism: Investigations into the Memory of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 2005.
de Jong, Yael. “Breaking the Silence: An Examination of the Portrayal of Mothers in the Works of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Roehampton University, 2005.
Sweet, Catherine S. “Secular Pilgrimages: Vacation as Pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island.” M.A. thesis, McMaster University, 2005.
2004 (6)
Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth. “Girls on the Edge: Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Emerging New World Nationalisms.” M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 2004.
Narbonne, André. “The Order of Good Cheer: Carlylean Idealism and the Confederation Humorists Sara Jeannette Duncan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen Leacock.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2004.
Haire-Sargeant, Lin. “American Girl to New Woman: Themes of Transformation in Books for Girls, 1850–1925.” Ph.D. dissertation, Tufts University, 2004.
Kotsopoulos, Patsy Aspasia. “Romance and Industry on the Road to Avonlea.” Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2004.
Gauthier, Roseanne, and Michelle McDonald. “Towards an Annotated Edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” B.A. Honours thesis, University of Prince Edward Island, 2004.
McRae, Matthew John. “Manufacturing Paradise: Tourism, Development and Mythmaking on Prince Edward Island 1939–1973.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 2004.
2003 (1)
van der Klei, Alice. “The Practice of Memory in Hypertext Wor(l)ds.” Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Montréal, 2003.
2002 (2)
Allard, Danièle. “The Popularity of Anne of Green Gables in Japan—A Study of Hanako Muraoka’s Translation of L.M. Montgomery’s Novel and Its Reception.” Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Sherbrooke, 2002.
Bauer, Ingrid C. “Living in an Unidyllic Idyll: The Worlds of Anne and Heidi; A Comparison between Johanna Spyri’s Heidi and L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, McGill University, 2002.
2001 (6)
Showalter, Anne. “Touring Avonlea.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 2001.
Miller, Gina Clare. “Subversion of Romance and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy.” M.A. thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2001.
McCabe, Shauna Joanne. “Representing Islandness: Myth, Memory, and Modernisation in Prince Edward Island.” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of British Columbia, 2001.
Litster, Jennifer H. “The Scottish Context of L.M. Montgomery.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2001.
Lefebvre, Benjamin. “Notes toward Editing L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes Are Quoted.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 2001.
Francis, Gillian. “Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Chronicles of the Great War.” B.A. Honours thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001.
2000 (1)
Somers, Seán. “The Dryad’s Bubble: Faith, Nature, and Movement in Charlotte Brontë, L.M. Montgomery, and Haiku.” M.A. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2000.
1999 (1)
Wood, Kate. “Patriotic Discourse: Historicizing Anne of Green Gables and PEI’s Turn-of-the-Century Newspapers.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 1999.
1998 (3)
Robinson, Laura Mae. “Educating the Reader: Negotiation in Nineteenth-Century Popular Girls’ Stories.” Ph.D. dissertation, Queen’s University, 1998.
Nelles, Simone. “Pilgrimages in a Land of Penumbra: A Critical Reading of the Religious Theme and Its Complex Variations in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Approaches toward Faith.” M.A. thesis, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany), 1998.
Klempa, Mary-Margaret. “Passionate Blood, Puritan Conscience: An Intertextual Study of the Private and Public Works of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Concordia University, 1998.
1997 (1)
McParland, Andrea Peden. “Trapped in Her Lover’s Arms: The Problem of Courtship and Romance in Selected Novels by L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Lakehead University, 1997.
1995 (2)
Healey, Keli Jo T. “Keeping Out the Shadows: Overreading L.M. Montgomery’s Novels through Her Journals.” M.A. thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995.
Ceraldi, Gabrielle. “Gendered Economies: Humour and Sentimentality in Sunshine Sketches and Rilla of Ingleside.” M.A. thesis, University of Manitoba, 1995.
1994 (1)
Maritano, Monica. “Lucy Maud Montgomery e le eroine della ‘children’s literature’ canadese.” M.A. thesis, Università degli studi di Torino (Italy), 1994.
1993 (2)
Yeast, Denyse Elaine. “Negotiating and Articulating a Self: An Intertextual Reading of L.M. Montgomery’s Public and Private Writings.” M.A. thesis, University of Calgary, 1993.
Campbell, Marie. “Wordbound: Women and Language in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon Trilogy.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 1993.
1992 (2)
Rubio, Jennie. “‘In an Alphabet I Did Not Know’: Reading Space in Montgomery, Laurence and Munro.” M.A. thesis, McMaster University, 1992.
Kelly, Leena. “An Approach to Avonlea: On the Characterization in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” M.A. thesis, University of Oulu (Finland), 1992.
1991 (4)
Åhmansson, Gabriella. “A Life and Its Mirrors: A Feminist Reading of L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, Volume 1: An Introduction to Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Shirley.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Uppsala (Swed.), 1991.
Østby, Inger-Marie. “What Constitutes the Artistic Mind?: A Study of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women.” Cand. Phil. thesis, University of Oslo (Norway), 1991.
Guth, Gwendolyn Ann. “Interplay in the ‘Emily’ Trilogy of L.M. Montgomery: A Canadian Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.” M.A. thesis, University of Ottawa, 1991.
Elvidge, Andrea. “‘Something Worthwhile in Its Line’: L.M. Montgomery and the Female Bildungsroman.” M.A. thesis, University of Waterloo, 1991.
1989 (2)
Wright, Laurie-Catherine. “L.M. Montgomery’s Idealism: The Influence of Emerson.” M.A. thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1989.
Alexander, Laurie. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Maritime Women’s Diaries: Laura Wood, Victoria Ross, L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, St. Mary’s University, 1989.
1988 (1)
Squire, Shelagh J. “L.M. Montgomery’s Prince Edward Island: A Study of Literary Landscapes and Tourist Development.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 1988.
1986 (2)
McKend, Heather. “Shaping the Self: L.M. Montgomery’s Apprenticeship in Romance.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 1986.
Colson, Amy E. “Characterization in the Novels of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Mount Allison University, 1986.
1985 (2)
Russell, Judith G. “Imagination and Nature in the Life and Work of L.M. Montgomery.” B.A. Honours thesis, Mount Holyoke College, 1985.
Avery, Heather Margaret. “One Author’s Response to a Changing World: A Study of the Variations in Selected Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 1985.
1983 (1)
Sobkowska, Krystyna. “The Reception of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery in Poland.” M.A. thesis, University of Lodz, 1983.
1982 (1)
Williams, Vicki L. “Home Training and the Socialization of Youth in the Sentimental Novels of Marshall Saunders, Nellie McClung, and L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 1982.
1981 (1)
Neutze, Christine Dorothy. “Colonial Children: The Fictional Worlds of L.M. Montgomery, Isabel Maud Peacocke and Ethel Turner.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Auckland, 1981.
1979 (1)
Turner, Gordon Philip. “The Protagonists’ Initiatory Experiences in the Canadian Bildungsroman: 1908–1971.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1979.
1977 (4)
Jones, Susan Elizabeth. “Recurring Patterns in the Novels of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, University of Windsor, 1977.
Ballon, Heather M. “The Bildungsroman in Recent Canadian Fiction.” M.A. thesis, McGill University, 1977.
Scanlon, Leslie Goddard. “Alternatives: The Search for a Heroine in the Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 1977.
Baker, Janet E. “Archibald MacMechan: Canadian Man of Letters.” Ph.D. dissertation, Dalhousie University, 1977.
1975 (1)
Macdonald, Rae M. “The Regional Novel in Canada, 1880–1925.” Ph.D. dissertation, Dalhousie University, 1975.
1967 (1)
Stevenson, Laura Alice. “The Image of Canada in Canadian Children’s Literature.” M.A. thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1967.
1961 (1)
McLaughlin, Gertrude (Sister M. Joanne of Christ). “The Literary Art of L.M. Montgomery.” M.A. thesis, Université de Montréal, 1961.