Emily Climbs is L.M. Montgomery’s fourteenth book, first published in September 1925 by McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) and the Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York). It is the second of three books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, preceded by Emily of New Moon (1923) and followed by Emily’s Quest (1927). Prior to the publication of Emily’s Quest, however, she published The Blue Castle (1926).
A television series based on Emily of New Moon and its sequels, starring Martha MacIsaac, Stephen McHattie, and Sheila McCarthy, was filmed in Prince Edward Island and aired between 1998 and 1999 and between 2002 and 2003.
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Dedication
To
“Pastor Felix”
in
affectionate appreciation
Contents
I. Writing Herself Out
II. Salad Days
III. In the Watches of the Night
IV. “As Ithers See Us”
V. Half a Loaf
VI. Shrewsbury Beginnings
VII. Pot-Pourri
VIII. Not Proven
IX. A Supreme Moment
X. The Madness of an Hour
XI. Heights and Hollows
XII. At the Sign of the Haystack
XIII. Haven
XIV. The Woman Who Spanked the King
XV. “The Thing That Couldn’t”
XVI. Driftwood
XVII. “If a Body Kiss a Body”
XVIII. Circumstantial Evidence
XIX. “Airy Voices”
XX. In the Old John House
XXI. Thicker Than Water
XXII. “Love Me, Love My Dog”
XXIII. An Open Door
XXIV. A Valley of Vision
XXV. April Love