Shorter Works: 1936

This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1936, the year she published Anne of Windy Poplars. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.

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Overview

Short Stories (10)

The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk | The Wedding at Poplar Point | The Gift of a Day | Everybody Is Different | Brother Beware | Miss Much-Afraid | The Westcott Elopement | A Tragic Evening | A Day Off | The Use of Her Legs

Poems (2)

I Wish You | I Want

Miscellaneous Pieces (3)

Foreword to Up Came the Moon (paratext) | Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (sketch) | Memories of Childhood Days (memoir)

Foreword to Up Came the Moon (paratext)

Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (N.p.: n.p., 1936), n.pag.

Synopsis

Montgomery contributed a foreword to a self-published book of poems by Toronto poet Jessie Findlay Brown.

Collected

The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 1: 328–29.

I Wish You (poem)

Good Housekeeping (New York), January 1936, 17. Scrapbook 5.

First line: “Friend o’ mine, in the year oncoming.”

Reprinted

Ruston (LA) Daily Leader, 27 December 1935, 5 (“in Good Housekeeping”).

Hope (AR) Star, 31 December 1935, 3 (untitled and unsigned).

Gibson Courier (Gibson City, IL), 16 January 1936, 1.

Greenville (SC) News, 10 January 1937, sect. 2, 5 (untitled).

Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), 24 December 1937, 20 (as “I Wish for You”).

Camden (AR) News, 26 January 1948, 6.

Collected

The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 107.

The Blythes Are Quoted, 70–71.

Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (sketch)

The Maritime Advocate and Busy East (Sackville, NB), May–June 1936, 3–8, 37.

Reprinted

The Maritime Advocate and Busy East (Sackville, NB), June 1939, 16–21, 34–37.

Collected

The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 1: 328–29.

Memories of Childhood Days (memoir)

The Maritime Advocate and Busy East (Sackville, NB), May–June 1936, 35.

Collected

The L.M. Montgomery Reader, 1: 328–29.

The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 6 May 1936, 22–23, 30.

The Wedding at Poplar Point (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 13 May 1936, 22–23, 30.

The Gift of a Day (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 20 May 1936, 20–21, 30.

Everybody Is Different (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 27 May 1936, 20–21.

Brother Beware (short story)

The Country Home (Springfield, OH), June 1936, 16–17, 50–51, 53–54.

Revised

The Road to Yesterday, 205–17.

The Blythes Are Quoted, 379–95.

Miss Much-Afraid (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 3 June 1936, 20–21.

I Want (poem)

Saturday Night (Toronto), 6 June 1936, 2. Scrapbook 5.

First line: “I’m weary of the city’s noise.”

Collected

The Blythes Are Quoted, 502–3.

The Westcott Elopement (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 10 June 1936, 20–21.

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A Tragic Evening (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 24 June 1936, 20–21.

A Day Off (short story)

The Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal), 1 July 1936, 20–21.

The Use of Her Legs (short story)

Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), September 1936, 12–13, 37–39.

Collected

After Many Years: Twenty-One “Long-Lost” Stories, by L.M. Montgomery, selected and edited by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christy Woster (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2017), 257–73.

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“Shorter Works: 1936.” L.M. Montgomery Online, https://lmmonline.org/shorter-works/shorter-works-1936/.