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Birth
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London) Price Edward Island, on November 30, 1874 -
Death of the mother
When Montgomery was 21 months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. Her father left her in the care of her mother´s parents, Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneil of Cavendish, and moved to western Canada, where he eventually settled in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and remarried -
School begins
At the age of six, she began attending the one room school near grandparents´ home in Canvedish. She completed her early education there, with the exception of one year. -
Poetry in a diary
When she was nine, she began writing poetry and keeping a journal -
First publication
While in Prince Albert, she achieved her first publication - a poem entitled "On Cape LeForce" published by a Prince Edward Island newspaper, The Patriot -
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She leaves with her father and wife
She went with her father and wife to Prince Albert -
Back to Cavendish
In September of 1891, she returned to Cavendish, too late go to school that year, but she completed grade ten in 1892-1893 -
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License as a teacher
She studied for a teacher´s license at Prince of Wales Collage, completing the two-year course in one year and graduating with honours -
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Study English literature
She left teaching for one year to study selected courses in English literature -
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Grandfather's death
He interrupted his career to care for his grandmother for the death of his grandfather -
Increased money
In 1899, she earned $96.88 for some poems -
Anne of Green Gables
In 1905, she wrote her first and most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. After receiving rejections from all of them, she put it away in a hat box. In 1907, she found the manuscript again and decided to try again to have it published. Anne of Green Gables was accepted by the Page Company of Boston Massachusetts and published 1908 -
Marriage
Montgomery married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald, to whom she had been secretly engaged since 1906, on July 5, 1911 -
Married life
After their marriage, Montgomery and Macdonald moved to Leaskdale, Ontario. She had three sons: Chester (1912), Hugh(stillborn in 1914), and Stuart (1915) -
Death
In 1926, the Montgomery Macdonalds moved to Norval, Ontario, where they stayed until Macdonald resigned from the ministry in 1935.
Maud Montgomery Macdonald died in Toronto, Ontario, on April 24, 1942, Ewan Macdonald died in November 1943