Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island and probably the world’s foremost Anne scholar, has selected and annotated pages from the scrapbooks Montgomery kept between the ages of 18 and 36. Peppered with Montgomery’s cryptic handwritten notes, the albums are a colourful, cluttered window into the vast imagination of the author and her small-town life.įor Imagining Anne, Dr. She collected fashion illustrations, fabric swatches, newspaper clippings (of marriages, deaths, and births), illustrations of cats, poems, pressed flowers, invitations, calling cards, photos she took herself, short stories, and jokes. In addition to writing 20 novels, 500 short stories, and 500 poems, Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid scrapbooker most of her life.
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