Year in Review: 2025

An overview of L.M. Montgomery-related news, events, calls for papers, site updates, and publications from 2025.

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Preamble
Featured Content
Projects
Readathon
Print
Screen
Stage
Events
Call for Papers
Site Updates
In Memoriam
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Preamble

Throughout 2025, which follows last year’s 150th anniversary of L.M. Montgomery’s birth, creative people of all types continued to find new ways to engage with and interpret the life, work, and legacy of this internationally renowned author. I’ve kept busy reorganizing and updating this website over the last little while, and I’ve been working on several new projects that will appear starting later this year.

This past year has been a busy one for me, and it’s included the completion of two new books. The first of these, Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, the fourth book in The L.M. Montgomery Library, appeared in December. It reprints the full text of six multi-chapter fiction serials that Montgomery published over a decade (three of them the same year as the publication of Anne of Green Gables) alongside original commentary. The title “Schooled with Briars” is both an allusion to a poem by Tennyson and the title of a revised version of one of the serials in the book that appeared in Everywoman’s World in 1916. The cover art is taken from the cover of one of the issues of that periodical that contained the serial. I was delighted when University of Toronto Press used that image for the cover of its fall 2025 catalogue.

My next book, The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery’s Writing Life, will appear at the end of February and is now available to pre-order.

Featured Content

Projects

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913 (The L.M. Montgomery Library)

University of Toronto Press, 2025

University of Toronto Press published Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, the fourth volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, in December 2025.

Out of the roughly five hundred shorter works of fiction that L.M. Montgomery published in periodicals between 1895 and 1940, about a dozen consisted of multi-chapter serials. As a form of print storytelling, fiction serials offered more complexity than short stories by virtue of their relatively longer word count, but since they appeared in instalments, they had to be structured for readers who had to wait to find out what happened next.

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, the fourth volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, reprints Montgomery’s six surviving fiction serials published over a ten-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre offers an in-depth analysis of these serials and what they reveal, sometimes problematically, about normative gender roles (including the figure of the “ideal woman”), whiteness and otherness, terminology and ableism, and the ways that her characters’ ability to earn a living is often constrained by complex attitudes about gender and class. He also traces fascinating parallels between this material and her novels, including the iconic Anne of Green Gables. This volume offers readers fresh insights into Montgomery’s career as a contributor to a competitive, metropolitan literary marketplace.

Readathon

The L.M. Montgomery Readathon, maintained by Andrea McKenzie, began reading its final book, Anne of Windy Poplars (which appeared as Anne of Windy Willows in the UK and Australia), in January. See Andrea’s YouTube channel for videos of participants taking turns reading chapters from this novel.

Print

Looking for Anne of Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Her Timeless Heroine

Irene Gammel

Sutherland House (Toronto) published a new edition of Irene Gammel’s Looking for Anne of Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Her Timeless Heroine in August. Gammel’s book had previously appeared in two editions in 2008: Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic (Key Porter Books) and Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic (St. Martin’s Press).

For over a century, Anne Shirley has captivated readers with her fiery red hair, boundless imagination, and plucky spirit. First introduced as the protagonist of Anne of Green Gables in 1908, she quickly became one of fiction’s most iconic characters, with the novel selling over 50 million copies and translated into more than forty languages. Yet little is known about Anne’s origins. Her creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery, a farm girl from Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, was an intensely private person. In Looking for Anne of Green Gables, Irene Gammel draws on her archival discoveries, and on the author’s private journals to reveal an emotional landscape of longing, loss, and a deep yearning for connection—themes that found their way into her famous novel. Blending biography and cultural history, Gammel traces the parallel journeys of Montgomery and her beloved heroine, showing how the author’s personal grief was transformed into the triumphs and joys of Anne Shirley. This dual biography of Montgomery and her timeless character explains how a literary classic was conceived and why it continues to enchant readers today.

A Chapter of Accidents: Twenty-Seven Rediscovered Stories

Selected and Edited by Carolyn Strom Collins

Nimbus Publishing (Halifax) published A Chapter of Accidents: Twenty-Seven Rediscovered Stories, a posthumous collection of Montgomery’s short stories selected and edited by Carolyn Strom Collins, in September.

A funny and heartfelt collection of rare short stories about unlikely pairings by the famed Anne of Green Gables author.

L.M. Montgomery, best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories.

This collection features rare short stories originally published between 1901 and 1932 that haven’t been in print since their initial periodicals. Montgomery scholar Carolyn Strom Collins has curated a selection of funny and heartfelt stories to provide unique insight into how this famed author’s writing developed over her career. With stories like “A Case of Mistaken Identity,” “A Platonic Experiment,” and “Frank’s Revenge,” each tale features an unusual, accidental, or unlikely pair. Montgomery’s brilliantly written characters and strong sense of place paired with Collins’s scholarly context make this collection a must for every Montgomery fan.

Additional Print Texts

Wilfrid Laurier University Press published a paperback edition of Wendy Roy’s book-length study The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L.M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche (2019) in April.

Éditions J’ai lu (Paris) published Jane de Lantern Hill, a new edition of Hélène Le Beau’s French translation of Jane of Lantern Hill, in May. Le Beau’s translation had previously been published as Les vacances de Jane [“Jane’s Vacation”] in 1990.

Penguin Workshop (New York) published Rey Terciero’s graphic novel Dan in Green Gables: A Modern Reimagining of “Anne of Green Gables,” illustrated by Claudia Aguirre, in June.

Nimbus Publishing (Halifax) published a new edition of Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, adapted by Deirdre Kessler and with new illustrations by Briana Corr Scott, in June. Nimbus had published this abridgement in 2008, following an earlier version, entitled A Child’s Anne, published by Ragweed Press (Charlottetown) in 1983. Nimbus has also published a new edition of a French translation of this title by Suzanne Bernard and Jo-Anne Elder, entitled Anne . . . la maison aux pignons verts : Récits pour jeunes lectures, first published in 2010.

Routledge (New York) published Jessica Duffin Wolfe’s The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Literature and Illness, part of the Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature series, in June. The book’s chapter 1, “Prevailing Disorder: Epidemics and Infectious Diseases,” includes a section entitled “Tuberculosis, Fevers, and Measles: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne and Emily Books.”

Arcturus (London) published a sixteen-volume set of abridgements of Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, retold by Samantha Newman and illustrated by Eve O’Brien, in July, as part of The Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables Retold. Titles include Arriving at Green Gables, Anne Gets into Trouble, Kindred Spirits and Sworn Enemies, The Missing Brooch, Teatime with Diana, Look Before You Leap, Anne’s Imagination, School Days, Strange Stories, Anne and Mr. Harrison, A Cracking Adventure, Sweet Miss Lavendar, A Bitter Rivalry, A Queen’s Girl, The Avery Scholarship, and A Bend in the Road.

Several more contributions appeared throughout 2025, including special journal collections, dissertations and theses, journal articles, shorter extensions, paratexts, and reviews, in addition to the latest issues of Cordially Yours (newsletter of the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario) and of The Shining Scroll (newsletter of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society of Minnesota).

Screen

Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley, a Japanese anime series produced by The Answer Studio and directed by Hiroshi Kawamata, premiered in April 2025, with twenty-four episodes released in instalments between 5 April and 27 September. Based on Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island, the series is available to stream (with English audio or with Japanese audio and English subtitles) on the Crunchyroll website, which has also posted news items about this series.

Lucy. Maud

On 18 February, a Variety article by Marta Balaga announced that Megan Follows would star as L.M. Montgomery in an upcoming television series entitled Lucy. Maud. The series is written by Susan Coyne (who wrote the screenplays to two movie adaptations of Anne of Green Gables from Breakthrough Entertainment) and Rosa Laborde and will be produced by Story Girls Productions. To create this series, the producers optioned the screen adaptation rights to Mary Henley Rubio’s 2008 biography, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings.

Balaga’s article includes this quote from Follows, who will also serve as one of the series’ producers (alongside Edwina Follows and Mary Young Leckie) and as one of its directors:

I’ve always been incredibly grateful to be introduced, as a young woman, to the power of a character who was a central figure in her own story. One thing I share with the writers [of the show] is that our lives were greatly influenced by Anne. She defined us as artists, as writers, me as an actor.

I will share more information about this series once it is released.

Stage

A new stage adaptation of Anne of Green Gables premiered at this year’s Stratford Festival! Adapted and directed by Kat Sandler, this play stars Caroline Toal as Anne Shirley, Tim Campbell as Matthew Cuthbert, and Sarah Dodd as Marilla Cuthbert.

When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables she’s a bit of a surprise to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, the brother and sister who had planned to adopt a boy to help out around the farm. With her tenacious spirit and winning personality, Anne earns their love and respect. But when Anne’s fiery temper causes sparks to fly in Avonlea, will she be able to win the town over too? Will her best friend Diana be lost to her forever? What about her arch nemesis Gilbert Blythe?

Generations of readers have fallen in love with Lucy Maud Montgomery’s timeless tale about the red-headed orphan longing for a forever home. Prepare to be swept off your feet once more by a fresh, new adaptation that will touch your hearts and tickle your funny bone.

The play opened on 31 May and concluded its run on 16 November 2025.

Events

Kindred Spirits: The Lucy Maud Montgomery Legacy as Interpreted by Contemporary Book Artists

Kindred Spirits, billed as “a touring book arts exhibit that responds to the work and life of Lucy Maud Montgomery,” consists of pieces created by members of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild. This exhibit appeared at Confederation Court Mall in Charlottetown from 21 June to 23 August 2024, followed by stops at Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library (Ottawa) from 16 September to 7 December 2024 and at Western University’s Weldon Library (London) from January to March 2025.

On 15 April 2025, the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, University of Toronto, held a launch for the exhibit, which it showed until 15 May. This launch included a keynote address by fiction writer, Montgomery scholar, and PhD candidate Melanie J. Fishbane.

In “Connections Across Time: L.M. Montgomery’s Creative Legacy,” Melanie J. Fishbane discusses how Montgomery’s writings span across communities, places, cultures, and time. Thus, when artists and writers interact with Montgomery’s work, they are also discovering a literary, historical, and cultural legacy that the author herself engaged in. Fishbane also shows how she integrated Montgomery’s literary and cultural influences into her novel, Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery. 

A video recording of the event can be watched on YouTube.

Following the exhibit’s run at the Robertson Davies Library, it will move to locations in New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia until the end of 2026. Visit the Kindred Spirits website for more information and to order a copy of the exhibit catalogue.

Maud in Toronto

Back Lane Studios, Toronto, April 2025

Back Lane Studios, a not-for-profit, multi-use space in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood of Toronto, held an exhibit entitled Maud in Toronto throughout April.

Lucy Maud Montgomery spent a lot of time in Toronto, especially during the last seven years of her life when she lived at 210 Riverside Dr. in Swansea. Her ghost is everywhere in this city, with the evidence recorded in her copious diaries. It’s surprising how much she accomplished in the last seven years of her life, despite depression, worries about her sons, money concerns and her husband Ewan’s mental illness. We’ve collected some archival photos, including many taken by Maud herself, and combined them with quotes from her journals.

We’ve also explored some themes that run through her novels and her diaries. One great irony stands out; Her fictional creations represent wish fulfilment, a fantasy of what she would have wanted things to be; her life, on the other hand, was in stark contrast to the world she dreamed of. You’ll learn about some of the challenges she faced and some of the challenges she created for herself at this exhibit.

You will also be impressed by the breadth of Maud’s knowledge: she was interested in so many things — science, astronomy, photography, history. She, truly, was a remarkable woman.

L.M. Montgomery and the Women

ACCUTE panel, George Brown College, 31 May 2025

Organizer and chair: Rita Bode (Trent University)

This panel, organized and chaired by Rita Bode and held at the annual conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English at George Brown College in Toronto, consisted of three papers:

• Zane Aubie (University of Guelph), “How the Maple Leaves Whitened in the Wind: Trauma, Female Agency, and National Maturation in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside”
• Shannon Brown (Dalhousie University), “Ephemeral Montgomery: The Periodical as Proto-Feminist Text”
• Margaret Steffler (Trent University), “Emotional Truths, Fiction, and Real Life: Reading L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro, and Miriam Toews”

Shortcuts and Tesseracts: Time/Space in Children’s Literature and Culture

Children’s Literature Association virtual conference, 9–14 June 2025

The Children’s Literature Association annual conference, held virtually between 9 and 14 June 2025, included two Montgomery-related papers scheduled to be presented on Thursday, 12 June 2025.

• Nick Lundrigan (Acadia University), “Jerry of Green Gables: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Acadians in Anne with an E’s Avonlea” (part of a panel called “Timespace Sets in Nation and Empire”)
• Darian Wilson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), “Re-Storying the Pathologized Child Through Anne of Green Gables” (part of a panel called “Reclaiming Body and Selfhood”)

Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery

virtual round table, 21 June 2025

The L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island hosted a virtual round table called “Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery” on 21 June 2025.

Join the LMMI for a virtual roundtable conversation on June 21, 2025, featuring acclaimed and active writers and artists as they explore the far-reaching influence of L. M. Montgomery across time, genres and art forms.

The conversation will be followed by an opportunity for questions, remarks, and discussion from all participants. All are welcome!

Moderated by Liz Rosenberg, the round table featured Jeanne Birdsall, James Garratt, Lois Metzger, Claudia Mills, and Lesli Weston. For more information, please visit the L.M. Montgomery Institute website.

Cinderella Anne, Paranormal Emily, and Astral Heroines Everywhere: L.M. Montgomery and the Fantastic

Virtual Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts, 17 September 2025

This year’s Virtual Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts included a round table panel called “Cinderella Anne, Paranormal Emily, and Astral Heroines Everywhere: L.M. Montgomery and the Fantastic.”

This panel seeks to remedy a significant omission in fantasy fiction studies and L.M. Montgomery studies by exploring Montgomery’s works in a fantastical context. Anticipated topics include Montgomery’s invocation and adaptation of fairy tales, use of the paranormal and otherworldly, depictions of magic and the magical world, and astronomical/cosmological themes in her work.

Moderated by Trinna S. Frever, the panel included contributions by Heidi Lawrence (Brigham Young University), Brenton Dickieson (University of Prince Edward Island), and Abigail Heiniger (Lincoln Memorial University).

Vision and Commemoration: The Continuing Legacies of L.M. Montgomery

Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site, 25–26 October 2025

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario hosted a two-day conference called “Vision and Commemoration: The Continuing Legacies of L.M. Montgomery,” held in at the Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site on 25 and 26 October 2025. The conference program includes a number of presentations:

• Laura Robinson (Acadia University), “A Monument of Her Own: L.M. Montgomery’s Self-Commemoration”
• Melanie Whitfield, “The Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site from Our Past to the Present: 1965–2025”
• Kathy Gastle, “Lucy Maud Montgomery Museum and Literary Centre Norval”
• Jack Hutton and Linda Jackson-Hutton, “Bala’s Museum with Memories of L.M. Montgomery”
• Juanita Rossiter and Keltie MacPhail, “Revisiting the Pensie Macneill Letters”
• Carolyn Strom Collins and Mary Beth Cavert, “The L.M. Montgomery Literary Society and The Shining Scroll”
• Deborah Quaile, “From Dream to Commemoration: L.M. Montgomery’s Original and Replica Wedding Attire”
• Andrea McKenzie (York University), “A Taste of L.M. Montgomery: Aunt Maud’s Recipe Book and the Crawfords of Norval”
• Ewa Henry-Dawson, “The Legacy of the Imaginary Power of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables”
• Irina Levchenko (University of Austria), “Commemorating L.M. Montgomery’s Feminist Legacy Through Translation”
• Laura Leden (University of Finland), “Reader Response on Instagram: Finnish Retranslations of L.M. Montgomery’s Works Celebrated in Bookstagram Reviews”
• Barb Pratt, “A Tribute to Dr. Elizabeth Waterston and Dr. Mary Rubio”
• Book panel featuring Melanie J. Fishbane, Catherine Little, Janet Wilson, and Kathy Wasylenky

For more information, please visit the website for the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario.

Call for Papers

L.M. Montgomery Day

Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site, 25–26 October 2025

Recently, the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario received a donation from the family of Wilda Clark. Among the many items in the donation was the July 3, 1965, guest book from the special event organized by Wilda involving provincial government recognition of the historic importance of the Leaskdale Manse. The event, during which a commemorative plaque was unveiled, was attended by 700 guests with 385 signing the book.

Wilda Clark is the founder of our organization. She recognized the importance of the manse long before others did and lobbied the local, provincial, and federal governments on a number of occasions in order to advance the historical significance of the site in Leaskdale.

2025 marks the sixtieth anniversary of this epoch moment in time which marked the beginning of a vision of place and what it could become. It would be twenty years before other significant events involving the future site of the Leaskdale Manse would begin rolling forward, but this was the spark that initiated it.

The world has just finished celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s birthdate. This was a commemoration like no other befitting this remarkable literary figure. She has definitely reached “that far-off goal of true and honoured fame” (“The Alpine Path”). Dream, vision, commemoration are key words that describe places, literary works, and events of significance created to pay tribute to Montgomery. There is also commemoration in Montgomery’s own work, her literary pilgrimages, the re-writing of her journals, and her efforts to remember Frede, to name a few.

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Society is requesting proposals for papers that address the commemoration of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life and work. Personal experiences in the dream/vision to commemoration process is encouraged as well as other reflections and perspectives.

Possibilities include but are not limited to:

• Places, museums, historical centers
• Landmark publications
• Literary organizations and their work
• Libraries and archival work
• Special collections
• Digitized projects
• Theater and the arts
• Natural spaces

The LMM Day weekend will be a hybrid event. While we encourage personal attendance, participation by Zoom will be possible. The LMMSO requests that proposals of not more than 450 words be submitted by Monday, March 31, 2025, to Melanie Whitfield (president of the LMMSO) at mzilawhitfield@gmail.com. Successful proposals will be reviewed and evaluated fairly for approval by a special committee. Twenty minutes will be allotted for the delivery of each paper. Registration information and scheduling for LMM Day/Weekend will follow after March 31.

L.M. Montgomery and Change

University of Prince Edward Island, 24–28 June 2026

“It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Is it really the same world I saw then that I see now? It seems so very different.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Selected Journals vol. I

“The only constant in life is change.”
—Heraclitus

The constancy of change pervades Montgomery’s life, work, and legacy. From the social, literary, political, and technological changes that took place throughout her lifetime to the ways in which she wrote about her characters coping with personal change, Montgomery engages change in all aspects of the human experience. Whether considered a positive or negative force, change is vital in both “real” life and in fiction, for without it comes stagnation, boredom, or worse. Change is not an easy force to be reckoned with, and the challenges of change are a common theme in Montgomery’s world.

L.M. Montgomery and Change, the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s seventeenth biennial international conference, invites proposals for research presentations that consider the theme of change in L.M. Montgomery’s works and world. Submissions should engage some aspect of this force in Montgomery’s life, creative work, life-writing, or legacy. Possible topics include, but are not limited, to:

• Changes in society during Montgomery’s lifetime
• Changes to physical environments affected by Montgomery’s legacy
• Paradigm shifts in Montgomery’s fiction or life writing: changes in dreams, life trajectories, expectations, hopes, assumptions, etc.
• Changes to Montgomery’s work due to self-editing, whether to her fiction or her journals
• Montgomery’s own dislike of change as presented in her journals and/or characters
• How Montgomery’s fictional characters deal with or feel about change
• Changes in Montgomery’s style, tone, subject matter, and voice over her career, whether in her fiction, life writing, or poetry
• Changes to the critical responses to Montgomery’s work over time—how have scholars studied or perceived Montgomery’s work?
• Changes to the ways readers (and viewers) find, accept, reject, engage with, and generally consume Montgomery texts.
• Changes made to Montgomery’s work in translation or adaptation, particularly considering the role of equality/diversity/inclusion
• Ways in which Montgomery’s works speak to current changes in aspects of our own lives, from personal circumstances to global events such as war, pandemic, the development of AI
• The agency involved in changing one’s environment or circumstances in Montgomery’s fiction or life writing
• Changes in the natural world—seasons, destructive forces, or the effects of time as presented in Montgomery’s fiction, life writing, or legacy
• Climate change through the lens of Montgomery’s work and legacy
• Affective change: what emotions, somatic experiences, or interconnections does Montgomery render in her writing? Does change hurt or heal?

Please submit 250–300-word proposals (individual paper and panel) and 100- to 150-word biographical statements to the submission form on the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s website (lmmontgomery.ca) by 1 August 2025.  

Proposals should articulate a strong argument and situate that argument in the context of existing Montgomery scholarship. Individual paper and panel proposals are double-blind reviewed. We also welcome proposals for workshops, special exhibits, or other visual displays engaging these ideas. Proposals that view Montgomery’s life and art from different cultural and theoretical perspectives are particularly encouraged. For more information, please contact Caroline Jones (caroline[dot]jones[at]upei[dot]ca) or Allison Hudson (allison[dot]hudson[at]dcu[dot]ie), co-chairs of the 2026 conference. “L.M. Montgomery and Change” is to be a hybrid conference. It will be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on 24-28 June 2026; all sessions will be livestreamed, allowing for virtual presentation, attendance, and participation.

Site Updates

On 24 April 2025, the anniversary of L.M. Montgomery’s death in 1942, a revamped version of this website went live. In addition to retaining this website’s core sections (including books, shorter works, bibliography, editions, and screen), the new website includes several articles of featured content reworked from earlier versions of the website. More reworked articles appeared starting in June, and new featured content will appear regularly moving forward.

Bibliography

By the end of 2025, the bibliography consisted of 8,630 items (up from 7,494 in December 2024) by more than 2,286 contributors—as well as innumerable unsigned items—published since 1890.

Editions

In April, I began the overhaul of the section of this website devoted to editions. Rather than continue to list editions on pages devoted to five-year periods, I decided to create a page for each publisher. So far, this section includes the following publisher pages: Broadview Editions, Nimbus Publishing, W.W. Norton and Company, Oxford University Press, L.C. Page and Company (The Page Company), Penguin Books, Penguin Canada, Rock’s Mills Press, and Viking Canada.

Screen

In January, I added full credits for Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) as well as cast credits for every episode of BBC’s 1952 and 1972 television miniseries adaptations of Anne of Green Gables and every episode of Sullivan Animation’s Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series (2000–2001). In December, I added a new page for Anne Shirley (2025), a new Japanese anime series released earlier this year.

In Memoriam

Jennie Macneill (1929–2025)

Jennie Macneill, a long-time caretaker of L.M. Montgomery’s Cavendish home, died on June 30 at the age of ninety-six. She also contributed two chapters to The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album (1999) as well as thirty articles to Kindred Spirits. Jennie was a mesmerizing speaker, incredibly knowledgeable about Cavendish history, and a great friend to all who knew her. For more information about her life, please see her obituary on the Davison Funeral Home and Chapel website.

Beverley A. Hayden (1941–2025)

Beverley A. Hayden, who for many years was president of the Kindred Spirits Society of Hamilton, died on October 16 at the age of eighty-four. She contributed several articles to the society’s newsletter, The Road to L.M. Montgomery, as well as to Kindred Spirits and The Shining Scroll. For more information about her life, please see her obituary on the Circle of Life Cremation and Burial Centre website.

Image Credit

Front cover of University of Toronto Press’s fall 2025 catalogue, featuring the cover art for L.M. Montgomery’s Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre.