L.M. Montgomery

By VCA Sarah

  • montgomery was born in Clifton, PEI

  • her father asked Maud to join him in Prince Saskatchewan, and she spent the next year in the Canadian West

  • her first published work, a poem, appeared in the Charlettetown, Prince Edward Island, Daily Patriot

  • returns to Prince Edward Island

  • went to Prince of Wales College in Charlettetown to prepare for a teaching career

  • she became engaged to a suitable young man but she met another man while engaged but walked away from both of them

  • Maud's grandfather dies

  • for a brief period of time whe was a reporter for a Halifax newspaper

  • her previously rejected novel was accepted by a publisher

  • Anne of Green Gables was published by the L.C. Page Company of Boston

  • a sequel, Anne of Avonlea, followed

  • Maud's grandmother dies

  • marries Ewan MacDonald, an attractive, amiable, conscientious Presbyterian minister to whom she had secretly been engaged to for five years

  • gives birth to Chester

  • gives birth to Stuart

  • her cousin and closest friend, Frederica Campbell, dies

  • her husband has a heart attack of what was termed "religious melancholia"

  • montgomery becomes engaged in a series of expensive and very trying lawsuits with publisher L.C. Page

  • she became the first Canadian woman to named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England

  • Maud and her family move to Norval, Ontario, where Ewan becomes the minister of a different congregration

  • Maud wins the lawsuits

  • she was invested with the Order of the British Empire

  • after a series of physical ailments, he had a complete breakdown and was institutionalized for months

  • Ewan retires and the MacDonalds move to Toronto, where their sons go to college

  • the Canadian government created a national park on Prince Edward Island in around Cavendish because of the renown Maud's books had brought to the area

  • had a bad fall and became sick

  • L.M. Montgomery dies in Toronto, Ontario, Canada