Emily of New Moon is L.M. Montgomery’s thirteen book, first published in August 1923 by McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) and the Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York). It is the first of three books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, followed by Emily Climbs (1925) and Emily’s Quest (1927). It was preceded by Rilla of Ingleside (1921), which Montgomery had vowed to be the last of the Anne books.
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.
Dedication
To
Mr. George Boyd Macmillan
Alloa, Scotland
in recognition of
a long and stimulating friendship
Contents
I. The House in the Hollow
II. A Watch in the Night
III. A Hop out of Kin
IV. A Family Conclave
V. Diamond Cut Diamond
VI. New Moon
VII. The Book of Yesterday
VIII. Trial by Fire
IX. A Special Providence
X. Growing Pains
XI. Ilse
XII. The Tansy Patch
XIII. A Daughter of Eve
XIV. Fancy Fed
XV. Various Tragedies
XVI. Check for Miss Brownell
XVII. Living Epistles
XVIII. Father Cassidy
XIX. Friends Again
XX. By Aerial Post
XXI. “Romantic but not Comfortable”
XXII. Wyther Grange
XXIII. Deals with Ghosts
XXIV. A Different Kind of Happiness
XXV. “She Couldn’t Have Done It”
XXVI. On the Bay Shore
XXVII. The Vow of Emily
XXVIII. A Weaver of Dreams
XXIX. Sacrilege
XXX. When the Curtain Lifted
XXXI. Emily’s Great Moment
Reviews of Emily of New Moon (22)
New York Times Book Review and Magazine, 26 August 1923, 24, 26. Children’s Literature Review, edited by Gerard J. Senick (Detroit: Gale, 1985), 8: 138 (excerpted).
Boston Herald, 1 September 1923, 7 (John Clair Minot, “Another Montgomery Novel Vibrant with the Spirit of Youth”).
Chicago Evening Post Literary Review, 7 September 1923, 8 (Ruth M. Sponberg, “A Child Poet Well Presented”). Scrapbook of Reviews, 209. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 242–43.
Hartford (CT) Courant, 9 September 1923, A12.
Times Literary Supplement (London), 13 September 1923, 605. Scrapbook of Reviews, 224. Children’s Literature Review, edited by Gerard J. Senick (Detroit: Gale, 1985), 8: 138–39 (excerpted). The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 244 (as “[The Early Life of a Very Precocious Child]”).
Edinburgh Evening News, 15 September 1923. Scrapbook of Reviews, 344. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 244 (as “[The Dreamland Child]”).
Globe (Toronto), 15 September 1923, 21. Scrapbook of Reviews, 208. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 245 (as “[A Few Years in the Life of a Little Girl]”).
San Francisco Chronicle, “A Pre-flapper Heroine.” 16 September 1923, D5.
Guardian (London), 27 September 1923. Scrapbook of Reviews, 218. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 245–46 (as “[The Eternal Child]”).
The Canadian Bookman (Toronto), October 1923, 264 (Raymond Knister, “A Sheaf of Canadiana”). The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 246 (excerpted as “[True as Far as It Goes]”).
Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Madison), October 1923, 444.
The Scotsman (Edinburgh), 4 October 1923, 2. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 247 (as “[A Type of Colonial Life That Fascinates]”).
Ottawa Citizen, 19 October 1923, 6 (“L.M. Montgomery’s New P.E.I. Story”).
Oregonian (Portland), 30 October 1923, 3 (J.M.T.).
Punch, or the London Charivari (London), 21 November 1923, 504. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 247 (as “[Sweet without Being Sugary]”).
Springfield (MA) Republican, 9 December 1923, 16 (“Prince Edward Island”).
Manitoba Free Press (Winnipeg), 8 December 1923, Christmas Book Supplement, 1. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 248 (as “[Humor and Tenderness]”).
Boston Herald, 11 December 1923, 5 (“Little Orphan Turns Gloom to Happiness in New Home”).
New York Herald, ca. 1923 (Henry Walker). Scrapbook of Reviews, 214. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 248–49 (as “[An Imaginative, Intelligent Child]”).
New York Tribune, ca. 1923 (Isabel Paterson). Scrapbook of Reviews, 220. The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 3: 249–51 (as “[Sweet with No Derogatory Implication]”).
Unidentified clipping, ca. 1923 (“L.M. Montgomery Writes a Charming Study of Girlhood”). Scrapbook of Reviews, 215.
The Catholic Standard (Philadelphia), 1 January 1924. Scrapbook of Reviews, 206.
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