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Born
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, on November 30, 1874 -
Biography
As an only child living with an enderly couple. She also spent time with her Uncle John and Aunt Annie Campbell (her mother`s sister), and there she spent many happy days, platyng with her cousins and visiting her paternal grandfather. At the age of six she began attending the one room school near her grandparents home in cavendish. -
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Studies
In the year she studied for a teaching license at Prince of Wales College, completing the two-year course in one year and graduating with honors. She left teaching for one year (1895-1896) to study selected courses in English literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax,becoming one of the few women of her time to seek higher education -
What did?
During her years in Cavendish , Montgomery continued to write and sent off numerous poems ,stories,and serials to Canadien , British and Anerican magazines. -
The famous novel
She wrote her first and most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. She sent the manuscript to several publishers, but, after receiving rejections from all of them, she put it away in a hat box. It was published in 1098. -
Romanticism
Married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald, to whom she had been secretly engaged, on 1906. Prior to her engagement to macdonald, she had had two romantic involvements: to her third cousin Edwin Simpson, and to Herman Leard -
Family
After their marriage, Montgomery and Macdonald moved to leaskdale. She had three sons Chester, Hugh and Stuart. And continued to write best-selling novels as well as short stories and poems -
His suffering
In her diaries she expresses her pain the death of her son Hugh who died in World War I, over the death of her beloved cousin Frede Campbell, and over the discovery that her husband suffered from religious melancholy. -
Death
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald died in Toronto, on April 24, 1942 and Ewan Macdonald died in November 1943. They buried her on her beloved Prince Edward Island, near the site of her former home. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people , directly or indirectly influenced by the way of life she depicted in her writing , come to Prince Edward Island to see the place she loved do much.