This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1903. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Shorter Works
Overview
Omega (poem)
If I Had Known (poem)
Netted Doily (pattern)
The Gray Silk Gown (poem)
In Lovers’ Lane (poem)
A Pioneer Wooing (short story)
The Old Chest at Wyther Grange (short story)
The Old Path Round the Shore (poem)
The Running Away of Chester (fiction serial)
The Bitterness in the Cup (fiction serial)
Overview
L.M. Montgomery published several dozen shorter works in 1903, including two short stories (“A Pioneer Wooing” and “The Old Chest at Wyther Grange”), two fiction serials (“The Running Away of Chester and The Bitterness in the Cup”), five poems (“Omega,” “If I Had Known,” “The Gray Silk Gown,” “In Lovers’ Lane,” and “The Old Path Round the Shore”), and a pattern (“Netted Doily”).
Omega (poem)
Waverley Magazine (Boston), 31 January 1903, 68. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “I am to die to-night! A solemn calm.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 79–80. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-041.
If I Had Known (poem)
Zion’s Herald (Boston), 18 February 1903, 206. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “If I had known how much of lasting good.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 40. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-021.
Netted Doily (pattern)
The Modern Priscilla (Boston), April 1903, 21.
Collected
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 218–19. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308-026.
The Gray Silk Gown (poem)
The New York Family Story Paper, 23 May 1903, 8 (signed Joyce Cavendish). Scrapbook 6.
First line: “Folded away in the cedar chest.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 87–88. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-046.
In Lovers’ Lane (poem)
The Delineator (New York), July 1903, 16. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “I know a place for lagging feet.”
Reprinted
The Maritime Advocate and Busy East (Sackville, NB), May–June 1940, n.pag.
Collected
The Watchman and Other Poems, 71–72.
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 94.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 13–14. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-007.
A Pioneer Wooing (short story)
The Farm and Fireside (Springfield, OH), 15 September 1903, 14–15. Scrapbook 3.
Revised
The Canadian Courier (Toronto), 20 May 1911, 8, 26–28.
Collected
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 107–18 (1911 version). https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487544140-016.
The Old Chest at Wyther Grange (short story)
Waverley Magazine (Boston), 19 September 1903, 185–86. Scrapbook 9.
Collected
Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990), 167–80.
Emily of New Moon, by L.M. Montgomery (Toronto: Tundra Books, 2014), 421–35.
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 35–44. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487544140-008.
The Old Path Round the Shore (poem)
The Household Ledger (New York), October 1903, 10.
First line: It winds beneath the shadow where the Druid fir trees lean
Reprinted
The London Magazine, March 1904, 200.
Grey River Argus (New Zealand), 18 June 1904, 3.
Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), July 1921, 8. Scrapbook 5.
Macleod (AB) Times, 18 August 1921, 5.
Collected
The Running Away of Chester (fiction serial)
The Boys’ World (Elgin, IL/Chicago), 14 November 1903, 4; 21 November 1903, 4; 28 November 1903, 4; 5 December 1903, 4; 12 December 1903, 4; 19 December 1903, 4; 26 December 1903, 4. Scrapbook 9.
Collected
Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988), 105–42.
Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, 3–38.
The Bitterness in the Cup (fiction serial)
The American Home (Waterville, ME/New York), December 1903, 3–8; January 1904, 6–8.
Reprinted
Everywoman’s World (Toronto), May 1916, 11, 34–36; June 1916, 10, 25, 46; July 1916, 14–15, 34; August 1916, 12, 30 (in revised form and as “Schooled with Briars”). Scrapbook 12 (May, June, and August instalments only).