The cherished favorite featuring everyone's favorite red-headed orphan, now in a revolutionary new mini format with a beautiful cover illustration by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand, Rifle Paper Co.
Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874 - 1942) was born on Prince Edward
Island, off the east coast of Canada. She spent her childhood
there, living with her grandparents after her mother's death when
she was only two. Many scenes in Anne of Green Gables are drawn
from her happy memories of the island and the farmhouse where she
was brought up. She was an avid reader and was always writing poems
and short stories. Her first published work, a poem, appeared in
the local paper when she was just fifteen. After school and
university she became a teacher, always continuing with her
writing.
When she was asked to contribute a short story to a magazine, she
dusted off an idea for a plot she had jotted down when she was much
younger, and turned it into Anne of Green Gables, one of the most
popular books ever written. Lucy said about the book-
'I thought girls in their teens might like it. But grandparents,
school and college boys, old pioneers in the Australian bush, girls
in India, missionaries in China, monks in remote monasteries,
premiers of Great Britain, and red-headed people all over the world
have written to me, telling me how they loved Anne and her
successors.'Lucy married a Presbyterian minister in 1911 and moved
with him to Toronto. She continued to set her stories on 'the only
island there is' and where her heart always remained.
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