Shorter Works

Shorter Works: 1919

This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1919, the year she published Rainbow Valley. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.

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Overview

Short Stories (1)

The Matchmaker

Poems (3)

A June Evening | Song of Winter | The Gate of Dream

Miscellaneous Pieces (1)

The Gay Days of Old (memoir)

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A June Evening (poem)

Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), June 1919, 5. Scrapbook 5.

First line: The winds are out among the firs

The Matchmaker (short story)

Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), September 1919, 7, 46–49.

Collected

After Many Years: Twenty-One “Long-Lost” Stories, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christy Woster (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1919), 107–24.

Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 197–211.

Song of Winter (poem)

Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), December 1919, 10. Scrapbook 5.

First line: “Fast to-night the frost is holding over all the world we know.”

Collected

Verse and Reverse, by Members of the Toronto Women’s Press Club (Toronto: The Toronto Women’s Press Club, 1921), 16 (as “Winter Song”).

The Blythes Are Quoted, 214.

The Gate of Dream (poem)

The Canadian Magazine (Toronto), December 1919, 158. Scrapbook 5.

First line: “I seek a little hidden gate.”

Reprinted

The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle 27 (Spring 1999): 5.

Collected

Verse and Reverse, by Members of the Toronto Women’s Press Club (Toronto: The Toronto Women’s Press Club, 1921), 29.

The Blythes Are Quoted, 256–57.

The Gay Days of Old (memoir)

Farmers’ Magazine (Toronto), 15 December 1919, 18, 46. Scrapbook of Reviews, 176–79.

Synopsis

This short memoir was published with the following subhead: “A Well-Known Author’s Reminiscences of Her Girlhood on a Canadian Farm.”

Collected

The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, 163–68.

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