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Lädt ... The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910 (2000. Auflage)von L. M. Montgomery (Autor), Mary Rubio (Herausgeber), Elizabeth Waterston (Herausgeber)
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Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.Beginning when Lucy Maud Montgomery is fourteen, this first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island. It recounts her schooldays in Cavendish, redolent with incidents, impressions, and romantic "crushes" that found their way into her fiction; a yearspent in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother; a year of study at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, where she trained to be a teacher, and another at Dalhousie University; her teaching years; a powerful infatuation with the son of a family she lived with; a long andmostly unhappy period of keeping house for her grandmother; and the publication of Anne of Green Gables. The autobiographical content will fascinate every devoted reader of the Anne books. But the Montgomery journals are especially interesting because they provide a unique social history and theprivilege of viewing closely the life of a remarkable woman. Comprising perhaps the most vivid and detailed memoir in Canadian letters, the journals will join Anne of Green Gables in ensuring Montgomery's lasting place in Canadian literature. This volume is a rich and engrossing prelude to thewhole. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Readers familiar with Montgomery's many works of fiction will find much here of interest, not just because of the insight offered into the life and thinking of the author, but because the style of writing, and many of the true-life incidents reported, can also be seen in her novels and short stories. There were moments in which I was strongly reminded of particular scenes or ideas, first met in Montgomery's fiction. The notion of a veil that hangs between us, and a secret world of beauty, that the author discusses at one point in her journal, was a clear influence on her Emily of New Moon books; while her imaginary childhood companions, living in the bureau glass, can also be found in Anne of Green Gables. More than this, though, the entire feeling of a small enclosed world, in which everyone knows everybody else, is very much present in Montgomery's journals, and is faithfully (and beautifully!) reproduced in her fiction.
First begun as part of a group read in February 2010, for the L.M. Montgomery Book Club that I moderate on another site, this book did not greatly appeal to me at first - and this despite my long-time admiration for the author! In fact, I had abandoned it around one quarter of the way through. Then, a few weeks ago, I happened to pick it up again, started over at the beginning, and found myself immensely engaged! I'm not sure why it didn't appeal to me the first time around - perhaps just not the right time? In any case, I found it involving, both emotionally and intellectually. Montgomery's passionate attachment to Herman Leard - whom she deemed beneath her - was fascinating, and I came away unconvinced that she ever really understood him. She seems to have been such a loquacious person, one wonders whether she misinterpreted his relative silence as a lack of intelligence, and/or a less deeply emotional attachment to her, than she felt for him. Being conscious of her eventual suicide, the passages in which she laments her life, and her emotional state, were very difficult to read indeed, and gave some portions of the journal a truly tragic feeling.
All in all, a fascinating read - and one I would recommend to any L.M. Montgomery fan! ( )