This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1908, the same year she published Anne of Green Gables. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Contents
Overview
The Old South Orchard (short story)
The Three Songs (poem)
Four Winds (fiction serial)
By Way of the Brick Oven (fiction serial)
Una of the Garden (fiction serial)
One of the Shepherds (poem)
Overview
L.M. Montgomery published several shorter works in 1908, including the short story “The Old South Orchard,” the poems “The Three Songs” and “One of the Shepherds,” and three fiction serials: “Four Winds,” “By Way of the Brick Oven,” and “Una of the Garden.”
The Old South Orchard (short story)
The Outing Magazine (Deposit, NY), January 1908, 413–16. Scrapbook 4.
Reprinted
Fulton County News (McConnellsburg, PA), 26 March 1908, 3.
Jones Valley Times (Birmingham, AL), 2 April 1908, 2.
Greene County Democrat (Eutaw, AL), 3 April 1908, 3.
Prattville (AL) Progress, 17 April 1908, 7.
Collected
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 76–83. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487544140-013.
The Three Songs (poem)
The New Age (Washington, DC), March 1908, 250.
First line: “The poet sang of a battle-field.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 49–50. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-026.
Four Winds (fiction serial)
The Housewife (New York), October 1908, 3–5, 9; November 1908, 3–4, 7–8. Scrapbook 12.
Revised
Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 30 October 1935, 20, 43; 6 November 1935, 20, 43; 13 November 1935, 18; 20 November 1935, 18–19 (as “Windy Willows”).
Collected
Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989), 139–88.
Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, 99–143.
By Way of the Brick Oven (fiction serial)
East and West: A Paper for Young Canadians (Toronto), 3 October 1908, 313–14; 10 October 1908, 325; 17 October 1908, 330–31; 24 October 1908, 337–38; 31 October 1908, 346–47; 7 November 1908, 353–54; 14 November 1908, 361–62. Scrapbook 12.
Collected
Around the Hearth: Tales of Home and Family, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Joanne Lebold (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2022), 142–95.
Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, 145–98.
Una of the Garden (fiction serial)
The Housekeeper (Minneapolis), December 1908, 7, 18; January 1909, 11–12; February 1909, 8–9, 16; March 1909, 7, 17; April 1909, 8–9, 32.
Collected
Una of the Garden, edited by Donna J. Campbell and Simon Lloyd (n.p.: University of Prince Edward Island, 2010; instalments 1–2, 4–5).
Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, 199–262.
One of the Shepherds (poem)
The Christian Endeavor World (Boston), 24 December 1908, 280.
First line: “We were out on the hills that night.”
Reprinted
The Canadian Countryman (Toronto), 20 December 1919, 21 (unsigned).
Collected
The Watchman and Other Poems, 110–12.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 55–57. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522-029.