Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery - her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased - are only part of the material gathered in a journey to understand Montgomery that took Rubio to Poland and the highlands of Scotland. From Montgomery's apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her ...
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Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery - her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased - are only part of the material gathered in a journey to understand Montgomery that took Rubio to Poland and the highlands of Scotland. From Montgomery's apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her passion-filled adolescence and young adulthood, to her legal fights as world-famous author, to her shattering experiences with motherhood and as wife to a deeply troubled man, this fascinating, intimate narrative of her life will engage and delight.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover.
This book fits together all the pieces of the puzzle of the Anne of Green Gables author, L.M. Montgomery. I have read biographies, letters, and diaries of Montgomery and agree with author Rubio that she presented her own personal "truth" in the documents she left behind. Montgomery spent a lifetime editing her personal diaries, but what she burned in her backyard probably came closer to the truth, and this is what Rubio is able to present in this fabulous biography. After reading this, I feel I know Lucy Maud so well - her frustration and shame regarding her elder son and her husband, her inability to control everyone around her ("what will people say!"), the heavy influence of her MacNeill grandparents on her story-telling, her deep loneliness after Frede's death, and her addiction to the debilitating drugs of the time. What a fascinating, intelligent, vulnerable woman. What a fascinating biography.