This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1927, the year she published Emily’s Quest. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Overview
Serializations (1)
The Blue Castle (The Canadian Countryman)
Abridgements (1)
The Blue Castle (The Plain Dealer)
Poems (2)
To a Desired Friend | An Old Face
Miscellaneous Pieces (1)
The Day Before Yesterday (memoir)
To a Desired Friend (poem)
The Commonweal (New York), 5 January 1927, 236. Scrapbook 5.
First line: “I have a right to you.”
Reprinted
St. Dunstan’s Red and White (Charlottetown), March 1937, 90.
Collected
The Blythes Are Quoted, 144–45.
The Blue Castle (abridgement)
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 3 April 1927, Magazine Section, 2–11, 14, 16, 18–23.
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The Day before Yesterday (memoir)
By L.M. Montgomery MacDonald [sic]. The College Times (Charlottetown), May 1927, 29–34.
Synopsis
In this short memoir, published in a magazine of Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, Montgomery reminisces about her own year at that institution in 1893–1894 and marvels about all the societal changes since then.
Collected
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, 230–36.
The Blue Castle (serialization)
21 instalments. The Canadian Countryman (Toronto), 27 August 1927, 11, 15–17; 3 September 1927, 11–14; 10 September 1927, 13–16; 17 September 1927, 12–16; 24 September 1927, 12–15; 1 October 1927, 14–18; 8 October 1927, 9, 15–16; 15 October 1927, 7, 12–13; 22 October 1927, 9, 13–14; 29 October 1927, 9, 14–15; 5 November 1927, 14–18; 12 November 1927, 14–18; 19 November 1927, 14–16; 26 November 1927, 9, 17–18; 3 December 1927, 9, 16; 10 December 1927, 19, 47; 17 December 1927, 9, 30–31; 24 December 1927, 13–14; 31 December 1927, 9, 13; 7 January 1928, 9, 21–22; 14 January 1928, 13–15.
An Old Face (poem)
The Commonweal (New York), 28 September 1927, 502. Scrapbook 5.
First line: Many a wild, adventurous year
Revised
Undated typescript. Scrapbook 5.
Reprinted
Literary Digest (New York), 22 October 1927, 34.
Harrisburg (PA) Telegraph, 5 November 1927, 6.
Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 January 1928, 6 (unsigned).
American Federationist (Washington, DC), November 1928, 1325.
St. Dunstan’s Red and White (Charlottetown), March 1937, 77.
Iola (KS) Register, 13 July 1945, 2.
Collected
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 88.
The Blythes Are Quoted, 258 (with additional first stanza).
Cite This Page
“Shorter Works: 1927.” L.M. Montgomery Online, https://lmmonline.org/shorter-works/shorter-works-1927/.