Rock’s Mills Press, a publisher in Oakville, Ontario, published editions of four L.M. Montgomery titles between 2015 and 2017.
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Rilla of Ingleside (Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press, 2015) Rilla of Ingleside (Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press, 2015) Anne of Green Gables (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016) Anne’s House of Dreams (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016) Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery’s Reworking of “Rilla of Ingleside” (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016) Emily of New Moon (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016) Emily of New Moon (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2017) Additional Titles
Rilla of Ingleside (Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press, 2015)
Edited by Jen Rubio
Introduction (vii–x), “A Note on the Text” (369), and notes by Jen Rubio.
Milestones in Canadian Literature. Trade paperback. 8.5” × 5.5”. xii, 369 pp. ISBN 978-0-9881-2938-2. Epigraph included; dedication omitted.
A copy of this edition is in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of that copy.
Rilla of Ingleside (Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press, 2015)
Edited by Jen Rubio
Introduction (vii–x), “A Note on the Text” (364), and notes by Jen Rubio.
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. Milestones in Canadian Literature. Trade paperback. 8.5” × 5.5”. xii, 365 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4011-9, ISBN 978-1-5234-4350-5. Epigraph is included; dedication is omitted.
This edition, released with two covers in 2015, is almost identical to the initial Rock’s Mills Press edition of Rilla of Ingleside published earlier in 2015, except that the author’s name now appears as “Lucy Maud Montgomery” and the pagination differs slightly. This edition adds a photograph from Montgomery’s journals of a young man in uniform, with an extract from Montgomery’s journal entry dated 3 February 1917 beneath the caption “Could this be the inspiration behind Rilla’s fiancé, Kenneth Ford?” (365).
The cover art of the first of these two editions reproduced “a neatly folded magazine clipping of an unidentified young woman’s face” found in Montgomery’s personal copy of Rilla of Ingleside, according to the back cover copy.
Copies of both editions are in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of those copies.
Anne of Green Gables (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016)
Preface (v–vii) by Jen Rubio.
Milestones in Canadian Literature. Trade paperback. 8.5” × 5.5”. x, 226 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4015-7. Epigraph and dedication omitted.
The author is credited as “Lucy Maud Montgomery” on the cover but as “L.M. Montgomery” on the title page. Also included are four photographs from L.M. Montgomery’s journals and one photograph of Montgomery as a child.
A copy of this edition is in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of that copy.
Anne’s House of Dreams (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016)
Edited by Jen Rubio
Milestones in Canadian Literature. Introduction (v–x) and notes by Jen Rubio.
Trade paperback. 8.5” × 5.5”. xiv, 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4040-9. Epigraph and dedication omitted.
The author is credited as “Lucy Maud Montgomery” on the cover but as “L.M. Montgomery” on the title page. Included in this edition are two contemporary photographs by Bernadeta Milewski as well as two archival photographs, including one of Montgomery’s cousin Frederica Campbell.
A copy of this edition is in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of that copy.
Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery’s Reworking of “Rilla of Ingleside” (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016)
Edited by Elizabeth Waterston and Kate Waterston
“L.M. Montgomery’s Creative Path to Publication” (v–xvi) by Elizabeth Waterston.
Trade paperback. 5 3/8” × 8 3/8”. xx, 307 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4021-8.
This edition consists of an annotated transcript of L.M. Montgomery’s handwritten manuscript of Rilla of Ingleside, housed at the University of Guelph since 2000 and consisting of 518 pages of text, followed by an additional seventy-one pages of notes.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Kate Waterston, who died in November 2015.
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection.
From the Back Cover
Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery’s 1921 novel about the Canadian home-front during World War I, is both moving and at times very funny.
Montgomery’s original handwritten manuscript of 518 pages, along with 71 pages of notes, survives today, housed at the University of Guelph. The manuscript has been painstakingly rendered in a readable format by Kate Waterston, and is available here, with an introduction by Montgomery expert Elizabeth Waterston.
This edition enables us to witness the process of Montgomery’s literary refinement as she edited her own work. The world has changed much since 1921: books are now mostly composed on computer, leaving little record of a writer’s creative journey. But editing is a key part of the process, and here is one of the most detailed records of it available.
Contents
L.M. Montgomery’s Creative Path to Publication / Elizabeth Waterston (v–xvi)
An Interpretive Transcription of Montgomery’s Manuscript of Rilla of Ingleside / Kate Waterston (xvii–xx, 1–276)
An Interpretive Transcription of Montgomery’s Manuscript of Notes to Rilla of Ingleside / Kate Waterston (277–307)
Emily of New Moon (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. Preface (v–vii) by Jen Rubio.
Milestones in Canadian Literature. Trade paperback. 8.5” × 5.5”. x, 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4014-0. Dedication omitted.
This edition includes four archival photographs, including one of L.M. Montgomery at age fourteen.
A copy of this edition is in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of that copy.
Emily of New Moon (N.p.: Rock’s Mills Press, 2017)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. Preface (v–vii) and notes by Jen Rubio.
Milestones in Canadian Literature. Trade paperback. 8.375” × 5.25”. x, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-7724-4056-0. Dedication omitted.
The author is credited as “Lucy Maud Montgomery” on the cover and on the title page. The preface in this edition is identical to the preface in Rock’s Mills Press’s 2016 edition of Emily of New Moon. Chapter 7 (“The Book of Yesterday”) and chapter 8 (“Trial by Fire”) appear as chapters 8 and 7, respectively. This edition also includes four archival photographs, including one of L.M. Montgomery at age fourteen.
A copy of this edition is in the site owner’s collection. Cover art is a scan of that copy.
Additional Titles
Rock’s Mills Press has also published five volumes of L.M. Montgomery’s unabridged journals, starting with L.M. Montgomery’s Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1911–1917, between 2016 and 2019, and John Passfield’s novel L.M. Montgomery: I Gave You Life in 2024.