This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1896. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Contents
Overview
“Which Has the Most Patience Under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life—Man or Woman?” (poem and sketch)
Crooked Answers (sketch)
The Bad Boy of Blanktown School (sketch)
James Henry, Truant (sketch)
A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College (essay)
Our Charivari (short story)
In Spite of Myself (short story)
Our Practical Joke (short story)
A Missing Pony (short story)
Overview
During the first four months of 1896, while she was a student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Montgomery added six more items to her list of publications. In February, Montgomery won first prize as well as honourable mention for a poem and a sketch she’d submitted to a writing contest in the Evening Mail. She also published three teaching-related sketches in two student magazines (The Prince of Wales College Observer and The Dalhousie Gazette) as well as an essay about women in higher education for the Halifax Herald. All of these items appear in A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917.
“Which Has the Most Patience Under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life—Man or Woman?” (poem and sketch)
“The Prize Awarded,” Evening Mail (Halifax), [February 1896] (signed Belinda Bluegrass/Enid). Scrapbook 7 (“Written January 1896 / Published February 1896 / In ‘Halifax Evening Mail’”).
First line: “As my letter must be brief.”
Synopsis
“Which Has the Most Patience Under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life—Man or Woman?” was a writing contest sponsored by the Halifax Evening Mail in early 1896 to which Montgomery won first prize (for a poem signed Belinda Bluegrass) and honourable mention (for a sketch signed Enid). The contest judge, Archibald MacMechan, was coincidentally Montgomery’s English literature professor at Dalhousie University.
Collected
The Years Before “Anne,” by Francis W.P. Bolger (n.p.: The Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1974), 159 (poem signed Belinda Bluegrass).
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 120–21 (poem signed Belinda Bluegrass, as “Which Has More Patience—Man or Woman?”).
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 44–46. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-015.
Crooked Answers (sketch)
The Prince of Wales College Observer (Charlottetown), [March 1896] (signed L.M.M.). Scrapbook 7 (“Written February 1896 / Published March 1896 / In ‘College Observer’”).
Synopsis
This sketch about teaching, which includes several student witticisms that would eventually be reworked for Anne of Avonlea and Kilmeny of the Orchard, was published in a second short-lived Prince of Wales College student periodical almost two years after her graduation from that institution.
Collected
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 47–49. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-016.
The Bad Boy of Blanktown School (sketch)
The Dalhousie Gazette (Halifax), 4 March 1896, 220–23 (signed L.M.M.). Scrapbook 7 (“Written February 1896 / Published March 1896 / In ‘Dalhousie Gazette’”).
Collected
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 50–53. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-017.
James Henry, Truant (sketch)
The Prince of Wales College Observer (Charlottetown), [April 1896] (signed L.). Scrapbook 7 (“Written March 1896 / Published April 1896 / In ‘College Observer’”).
Collected
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 54–57. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-018.
A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College (essay)
By Lucy M. Montgomery. Halifax Herald, 29 April 1896, 12. Scrapbook 7 (“Written April 1896 / Published April 1896 / In ‘Halifax Herald’”).
Synopsis
Montgomery published this essay on the importance of higher education for women in The Halifax Herald in late April 1896, as part of that newspaper’s multi-page coverage of “The Thirty Sweet Girl Graduates of Dalhousie University.”
Reprinted
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal / Journal d’études sur la femme 5 (Fall 1979): 146–53.
Collected
The Years Before “Anne,” by Francis W.P. Bolger (The Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1974), 161–68.
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Cecily Devereux (Broadview Editions, 2004), 371–79 (as “The Thirty Sweet Girl Graduates of Dalhousie University”).
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston (W.W. Norton and Company, 2007), 272–75 (excerpts).
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 58–67. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-019.
Our Charivari (short story)
Golden Days for Boys and Girls (Philadelphia), 9 May 1896, 396 (signed Maud Cavendish). Scrapbook 7 (“Written February 1895 / Published May 1896 / In ‘Golden Days’”).
Reprinted
Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 January 1923, Our Boys and Girls section, 6 (signed Maud Cavendish).
Collected
The Years Before “Anne,” by Francis W.P. Bolger (The Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1974), 147–50, 157–58.
In Spite of Myself (short story)
Inter Ocean (Chicago), 5 July 1896, 37–38 (signed M.L. Cavendish). Scrapbook 7.
Reprinted
Daily Mail and Empire (Toronto), 4 July 1896, 21.
Atlanta (GA) Constitution, 5 July 1896, 20.
Boston Sunday Globe, 5 July 1896, 34.
Helena (MT) Independent, 5 July 1896, 12.
Nashville American, 5 July 1896, 16.
Oregonian (Portland, OR), 5 July 1896, 16.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 5 July 1896, 27.
Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, UT), 5 July 1896, 14.
Sun (New York), 5 July 1896, 6 (subtitled “An Old-Fashioned Story of a New-Fashioned Girl”).
Malone (NY) Palladium, 16 July 1896, 1.
Burlington (IA) Hawk-Eye, 21 July 1896, 2.
Collected
Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993), 81–94.
Our Practical Joke (short story)
Golden Days for Boys and Girls (Philadelphia), 8 August 1896, 604–5. Scrapbook 7.
Reprinted
Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 July 1924, Our Boys and Girls section, 3 (unsigned).
Revised
Days of Youth (Cincinnati), 7 January 1906, 3 (revised; as “Our Last Practical Joke”).
The Churchman (New York), 21 May 1910, 730 (abridged).
A Missing Pony (short story)
Golden Days for Boys and Girls (Philadelphia), 17 October 1896, 764–65.† Scrapbook 7. Copy. Typed/13.
Reprinted
Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 June 1923, Our Boys and Girls section, 4.