This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1930. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Contents
Overview
Oh, We Will Walk with Spring To-Day! (poem)
A House Divided Against Itself (short story)
The Price (short story)
Interlude (poem)
L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (letter)
Overview
L.M. Montgomery published several shorter works in 1930. These include the short stories “A House Divided Against Itself” and “The Price” and the poems “Oh, We Will Walk with Spring To-Day!” and “Interlude.” She also published a letter responding to allegations that she’d misrepresented Prince Edward Island people in her novel Magic for Marigold.
Oh, We Will Walk with Spring To-Day! (poem)
Unidentified and undated clipping. Scrapbook 5.
First line: “Oh, we will walk with spring to-day!”
Collected
Canadian Verse for Boys and Girls, edited by John W. Garvin (Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930), 140.
The Blythes Are Quoted, 478–79 (as “Oh, We Will Walk with Spring Today”).
A House Divided Against Itself (short story)
Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), March 1930, 3–5, 70, 72. Scrapbook 5.
Reprinted
The Story-Teller (London), July 1931, 538–46 (as “A Family Affair”).
Collected
Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989), 275–95.
The Price (short story)
The Chatelaine (Toronto), March 1930, 10–11, 38–42.
Collected
After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991), 119–47.
Interlude (poem)
Saturday Night (Toronto), 13 December 1930, 15. Scrapbook 5.
First line: “To-day a wind of dream.”
Reprinted
Chilliwack (BC) Progress, 25 December 1930, 2.
Collected
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 74.
The Blythes Are Quoted, 365–66.
L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (letter)
By L.M. Montgomery Macdonald. Charlottetown Guardian, 1 September 1930, 4.
Synopsis
This is the last of six letters published in the “Public Forum” column of the Charlottetown Guardian in late summer 1930. The first letter, signed Mrs. Edith Frank Fisher, criticizes Montgomery’s depiction of rural life in her novel Magic for Marigold, which had been published in 1929; responses signed “Islander,” “An Outsider,” “An Insider,” and “(Mrs.) A.M.C.” appeared before Montgomery herself decided to set the record straight. All six letters appear in full in The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print (2013).
Collected
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 1: 262–72.