‘Abel and His Great Adventure’ 255n2
Åhmansson, Gabriella 253n9
Alhambra, The (Irving) 150, 172, 175, 178, 239
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Dodgson) 45, 150
allies (First World War) 95, 96, 104, 125
Along the Shore 251n1, 253n3, 255–6n4, 257n1
Alpine Path, The 4, 145, 150, 171, 177, 189
‘Among the Hills’ (Whittier) 40
Among the Shadows 251n1, 257–8n2
Anderson, Hens 150
Anne Avonlea 38, 39–55, 56–8, 61, 63, 65, 70, 73, 89, 109, 228, 254n4
Anne of Green Gables 3, 5, 6, 13, 17–38, 39–43, 45–7, 50–5, 57, 58, 62, 65, 70, 73, 75–7, 93, 120, 127, 132, 141, 222, 227, 228, 246, 251n2, 252n3, 252–3n9
Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel 132
Anneof Ingleside 131, 133.138–42
Anne of the Island 3, 56–74, 133
Anne of Windy Poplars 131–8, 141
Anne’s House of Dreams 3, 11, 75–94, 95, 105, 108, 110, 112, 118, 123, 127, 128, 132, 135, 139, 237, 252–3n9, 255n3
Arnold, Matthew 150
At the Back of the North Wind (MacDonald) 175
Aurora Leigh. See Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Austen, Jane 159
‘Averil’s Atonement’ 62–3
Avery Scholarship 43
Avonlea P.E.I. 6, 9, 17–19, 22, 23, 25–7, 33–6, 40–5, 52, 68, 74, 76, 110, 130, 139
Avonlea Village Improvement Society 40, 41
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune 27
Baker, Susan 96, 113, 115–17, 119, 120, 124–7
Barry, Diana 21, 22, 25, 27, 31, 32, 42, 47–52, 55, 58, 61–3, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 91, 139
Barthes, Roland 249
‘Battle of Hohenlinden, The’ (Campbell) 27
Bell, Henry Glassford 27
Bible 43, 53, 59, 60, 74, 92, 113, 150, 152, 222, 252n3, 254nn3, 4
Bildungsroman 206
Blair Water, P.E.I. 152, 184, 187, 197
Blake, William 92
Blue Castle, The 3, 8, 145, 221, 234–9, 259n2
Blythe, Anne. See Shirley, Anne
Blythe, Gilbert 18, 21–3, 26, 32–4, 36, 38, 40–4, 53–5, 57, 59, 60, 63, 65–73, 75, 80, 82, 86–8, 91, 93, 94, 96, 113, 116, 118, 128, 113, 138–41, 159, 204, 238, 255n2
Blythe, Jem 85, 86, 93, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104–6, 110, 111, 113–16, 118, 119, 122, 123, 125, 128, 138
Blythe, Rilla 101, 107, 112–25, 127, 129–31, 133, 139, 141, 222
Blythe, Walter 9, 10, 27, 97–107, 110, 111 113–17, 119–25, 127, 128, 138, 257n2
Blythes Are Quoted, The 131
Bohemian Girl, The (Bunn) 24
Boyd, Captain James. See Captain Jim
Bright River, P.E.I. 21, 24, 48
Brontë, Charlotte 12, 155–60, 163–5, 178–80, 184, 195, 206, 238, 257n2. See also Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily 159
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 12, 146, 150, 206
works: Aurora Leigh 12, 146–7, 176, 184, 191–6, 205, 258n3
‘The Lay of the Brown Rosary’ 173–4
Browning, Robert 35, 37, 59, 92
works: ‘Evelyn Hope’ 40
‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ 161
‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ 103, 113, 123
Brownings, the 4
Bryant, Miss Cornelia 88, 90, 91, 94, 96, 97, 102, 109, 112
Bryant, William Cullen 59
Bunn, Alfred 24
Burnley, Beatrice 160, 162, 166–7
Burnley, Use 150, 151, 154, 158–62, 167–70, 175, 177, 183, 189, 191, 198, 204, 207, 215, 222
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 4, 59, 66, 155, 164, 187, 238
Camelot 54, 73, 74, 97, 106, 254n6, 256n4
Campbell, Frede. See MacFarlane, Frede Campbell
Campbell homestead (Silver Bush, Park Corner, P.E.I.) 259n4
Captain Jim 3, 11, 76, 80, 85–8, 91–4, 97, 108, 109, 255n2
Carpenter, Mr 62, 152, 154–5, 168–72, 174–6, 180, 182, 184, 199, 206
Carroll, Lewis. See Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
Cassidy, Father 152–4
Cavendish, P.E.I. 4, 5, 146, 150, 231
Cavendish Literary Society 4
Charlotta the Fourth 41, 46, 55, 254n5
Charlottetown, P.E.I. 27, 32, 33, 253n2, 259n1
chivalry 9–11, 37, 53, 54, 64, 86, 89, 96–105, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 119, 123, 128, 229, 231, 238
Classen, Constance 251n2
Clear Spirit, The (Innis, ed.) 6
Coldwell, Joyce-lone Harrington 231
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 92
Confederation Centre of the Arts 253n2, 259n1
Constant, Henri Benjamin 254n2
Cowper, William 59
Cuthbert, Marilla 20–2, 25–7, 32, 33, 41, 42, 44–6, 48–50, 52, 60, 61, 69, 90, 115, 129, 139
Cuthbert, Matthew 20, 21, 24, 29, 30, 35, 36
Dalhousie University 4
Dark, Aunt Becky 245–7
‘Dawn’ (Pickthall) 197
de la Roche, Mazo 243
Delineator 239
Dew, Rebecca 133, 134, 138, 141
Dickens, Charles 4, 59, 72, 85, 91, 125, 254n2
Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories, The 251n1, 255n2
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (pseudo. Carroll, Lewis) 59
Dog Monday 116
domestic romance 6, 54, 57, 79, 206
Dan Juan (Byron) 59
‘Downfall of Poland’ (Campbell) 27
‘Edinburgh after Flodden’ (Aytoun) 27
Edwards, Lee 12
Edwin, Irwin 251–2n2
Eisler, Riane 183
‘Eldorado’ (Poe) 47
‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (Gray) 252n3
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary Ann
Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Arnim) 5, 252n3
Elliot, Mrs Marshall. See Bryant, Miss Cornelia
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 148, 172, 251–2n2, 254n3
Emily Climbs 145, 151, 166, 168–81, 182, 184, 185, 191, 200, 258n2
Emily of New Moon 62, 145, 149–67, 168, 172, 186, 200, 203
Emily’s Quest 145, 151, 166, 174, 177, 181, 182–207
Epperly, Elizabeth 3, 13, 59, 76
Europe 56, 94, 96, 103, 107, 110–13, 116, 125, 126
Evans, Mary Ann (pseudo. Eliot, George) 4
Everywoman’s World 145
Excursion, The (Wordsworth) 253–4n2
Family Herald and Weekly Star 4
Fielding, Henry 24
First World War 9, 12, 75, 79, 94, 95–9, 103–7, 110–30
battles: Langemarck 121
the Marne 127
Vimy Ridge 125
Fish, Stanley 13
Fitzgerald, Edward 198
Ford, Kenneth 114, 118, 124, 129
Ford, Leslie. See Moore, Leslie
formula writing. See Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Foster, John 237–8. See also Snaith, Barney
Four Winds, P.E.I. 75–7, 79, 81, 84, 85, 87–96, 107, 108, 110, 111, 116, 120, 129, 130, 139, 227
Fowler, Alistair 10
Galahad, Sir 9, 97, 98, 105–7, 122
Gardiner, Pat 211–20, 221, 224, 227, 238
Gardner, Royal 59, 63, 64–7, 71
Garner, Barbara Carman 253n
Garrison, Doreen 215–17
Germany, 95–8, 103, 110, 114, 118, 119, 120, 125–7, 129
Gillen, Mollie 112, 239, 243, 259n1
Glen St Mary, P.E.I. 112, 124, 126, 130, 131
Golden Road, The 56, 62, 175, 231–4, 259n1
Gordon, Hilary 159, 212–20, 226, 227, 238
Gordon, Kilmeny 228–31
Gordon, Philippa 57, 59, 61, 65–8, 71, 72
Gothic 24, 26, 156–7, 159, 160, 257–8n2
Grant, Priscilla 49–51, 59, 61
Great War, the. See First World War
Gubar, Susan 204
Harker, Mary 253n1
Harlequin romances 10
Harrison, Mr 41, 42, 44, 45, 52, 62, 63
Heilbrun, Carolyn 249
Hemans, Mrs Felicia 27, 92, 150, 151, 175
heroism 12, 24–6, 42, 95, 112, 114, 115, 117, 124, 151, 248
Hopetown, Asylum 117
‘I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls’ (Bunn) 24
Idylls of the King. See Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
In a Different Voice (Gilligan) 7, 248
In Times Like These (McClung) 256n5
Irving, Washington 150
Jacobus, Mary 145
Jalna (de la Roche) 243
Jane Eyre (Brontë) 10, 12, 100, 146, 147, 155–9, 162–5, 167, 176, 178, 179, 191, 196, 200, 201, 204, 205, 238, 257n2, 258n3
Jane of Lantern Hill 13, 211, 220–7, 229
Jingle. See Gordon, Hilary
Johnson, Sonia 94
Jonson, Ben 254n2
Joseph Andrews (Fielding) 24
Journals. See Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery
Kaiser of Germany 97, 103, 126
Katsura, Yuko 3
Keats, John 4, 60, 80, 92, 176, 177
Keith, Davy 41, 42, 44, 47, 52, 61, 71
Kennedy, Grandmother 221, 223, 226, 227
Kent, Mrs Aileen 191, 200–1, 204–5
Kent, Teddy 146–8, 150, 154, 155, 159, 166, 169–75, 177–80, 183–91, 195–9, 201, 203–6, 220
Kevin Sullivan Productions 132
Kilmeny of the Orchard 56, 228–31
Kindred Spirits of P.E.I. 259n4
King children 17, 211, 231–4, 239
Kingsport, Nova Scotia 55, 68, 73, 132
Kreps, Bonnie 10, 94, 140, 155, 178, 187, 256n3
Küntslerroman 206
Ladies of Missalonghi, The (McCullough) 235, 259n2
Lady of the Lake, The (Scott) 27, 123
L.C. Page Company 5, 39, 56, 228
Leard, Herman 146
Leaskdale, Ontario 119
Leslie, Marigold 17, 211, 239–44
Letters. See My Dear Mr. M.
Lewis, Lavendar 41–2, 44–5, 48, 52–4, 58, 71, 254n5
‘Life-Book of Uncle Jesse, The’ 255–6n4
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 92
Lost Margaret 86
Lusitania 128
Lynde, Mrs Rachel 18–22, 26, 41, 52, 60, 133
Lytton, Bulwer 4
Macbeth, Lady 80
McCullough, Colleen 235, 259n2
MacFarlane, Frede Campbell 111, 112, 121, 122, 139
MacMillan, G.B. 78, 132, 203, 212, 251–2n2, 257n1, 258n6
Macneill, Lucy Woolner (grandmother) 5, 39, 150
Macneill homestead 146
Magic for Marigold 9, 239–44, 246
March, Jo 62
Marsh, Lida 100–2
Marshall, Eric 229–31
Mary Queen of Scots (Bell) 27
‘Maud Muller’ (Whittier) 59
Meredith, Faith 97–101, 102, 105, 109–10, 116
Meredith, Jerry 101–3
Meredith, John 96, 102, 107–10, 113
Meredith, Una 98, 100–2, 105, 107–10, 121, 122
Meredith family 96, 97, 102, 103, 107–10
Milton, John 4
Moi, Toril 44
Montgomery, Carl (half-brother) 256n5
Montgomery, James 92
Montgomery, Lucy Maud: autobiographical elements 12, 83, 113–14, 122, 129, 130, 145–7, 212, 219–20, 222, 225, 231, 247, 250
death of Frede Campbell 111, 112, 121, 122, 139, 146
descriptions, creation of 9, 28–9, 30, 3i_3) 46–7, 75–6, 80, 127, 197, 212—13, 222–225, 233—4, 236—7, 55n2, 257n1
fairy tale, use of 53–4, 55, 56, 109, 110, 147, 166, 180, 187, 190, 196, 212, 221, 224, 227, 229, 236, 238, 239, 252n7
formula writing 5, 6, 10, 11, 53, 57, 63, 73, 124, 146, 177, 206, 228, 229, 230, 235
influence and popularity 3—6, 9, 13—14, 249—50
love of P.E.I. 30–1, 221–2, 225
love of the sea 76–8
narrative strategies 6–7, 18–22, 40–1, 42, 57, 67–8, 70–2, 76–7, 86–7, 89, 92—3, 103, 108, 123 141 163 183, 212, 246, 250
prejudices 8–9, 230, 240, 241–2, 246, 259n2, 260n5
reading 4–5, 145–6, 148, 200—2, 251n2, 252nn3, 7
romance, endorsement and undercutting of 3, 10–11, 18, 23, 30, 36–7, 40, 52, 54–5, 73–4, 79, 94, 97, 109, 111, 113, 118–19, 123, 142, 145, 147–8, 165–7, 178–9, 187, 206–7, 227, 229, 235, 239, 244–8, 250
war, attitude to 9, 56–7, 75, 79, 95–6, 104–5, 106, 110–11, 117, 118, 122
Moore, Dick 79, 88, 89, 91, 94
Moore, Leslie 75, 76, 78–94, 107, 108, 118, 129, 135, 136, 139
Munro, Alice 4
Murray, Aunt Elizabeth 149, 152, 157, 167, 170, 175, 189
Murray, Cousin Jimmy 149, 152, 186
Murray clan 149, 151, 158, 176
Mussell, Kay J. 10
My Dear Mr. M.: Letters to G.B. MacMillan 5, 13, 78, 132, 203, 212, 222, 231, 235, 251n2, 257n1, 258n6
Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe) 159
Noddings, Nel 94
Nonhanger Abbey (Austen) 159
O‘Connell, Daniel 59
‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (Keats) 80
Oliver, Gertrude 113, 116, 123, 127, 128
On Deconstruction (Culler) 44
Park Corner, P.E.I. 231, 259n4
Pat of Silver Bush 212–17, 218, 226
Penhallow, Margaret 245–6
Perri, Carmela 253n5
Pickthall, Marjorie 197
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) 150, 245
Piper (Walter’s) 103, 104, 111, 113, 121–4, 128, 257n2
Plum, Judy 214, 216–18, 220, 226
Poe, Edgar Allan 47, 48, 59, 60
Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, The 254–5n1
Pope, Alexander 92
Priest, Dean 147–8, 152–6, 159, 161–7, 169–80, 191, 195, 203, 257n3, 258n5
Priest, Great-aunt Nancy 150, 159
Prince of Wales College 4
psychic powers and experiences 113, 127–8, 154, 156, 166–9, 175, 178–9, 182, 186–91
Pye, Josie 25
Rainbow Valley 95–111, 112–14, 120, 123, 131
Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm (Wiggin) 5, 251–2n2
Redmond College 57, 59, 67, 133
Rilla of Ingleside 101, 107, 112–30, 131, 133, 139, 141, 222, 252n4
Rivers, St John 156, 164, 178, 179, 195
RKO Company 132
Road to Yesterday, The 131
Rochester, Bertha Mason 204
Rochester, Edward 155, 156, 158, 163–6, 178, 179, 195, 238
romance. See Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Romance of the Forest, The (Radcliffe) 159
Roper, Gordon 4
Rowe, Karen E. 155
Royal, Janet 170, 173, 180, 189
Royal Reader 150
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The (Fitzgerald) 198
Rubio, Jerry 255n3
Rubio, Mary 6–7, 32, 39, 78, 254n4
Russell, D.W. 6
Russell, Ruth Weber 6
Schreiner, Olive 5, 12, 146, 147, 176, 200, 202, 252n3
Scott, Sir Walter 4, 10, 27, 59, 123, 127, 150
Seasons, The (Thomson) 27, 150
Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery 4, 13, 78, 113, 114, 140, 145, 146, 150, 200, 231, 251n2
Vol. I: 39, 201, 202, 252n7, 257n2
Vol. 11: 56, 65, 77, 83, 90, 96, 120, 121, 129, 145, 202, 254m, 256n5, 257n2, 258n1
Shakespeare, William 4, 27, 59, 60, 80, 92, 150, 254n5
works: Macbeth 80
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 150
Othello 59
Romeo and Juliet 27
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 4
Part I: 17–99, 101, 107–15, 117, 120, 122–7, 129–42
Part II: 145, 146, 148, 151, 153, 176
Part III: 211, 212, 215, 221, 234, 238, 239, 252–3n9, 254n5
some highlights of her career: White Way of Delight 29
early self-dramatizations 24–6, 70
power of Anne’s voice 18, 22–3, 37, 47–9, 57–9, 63, 133
apologies/confessions 21–2
lily-maid episode 26–7
friendship with Gilbert 34–6, 53–5
changing attitude to romance 27–8, 33–4, 37–8, 45–6
relationship with Davy 41, 44, 61
friendship with Lavendar Lewis 40, 45–6, 48, 53, 71
friendship with Mrs Allan 42, 69
‘A Golden Picnic’ 49–52
‘Averil’s Atonement’ 62–3
courtship by Royal Gardner 63
marriage proposals to 64–7
unhappiness without love 69–70
love for Gilbert 73
friendship with Katherine Brooke 135–7
friendship with Captain Jim 85–7
friendship with Leslie Moore 78–9, 82–5, 90–1
comedy with Miss Cornelia 91, 94
death of little Joyce 83, 89–90
love of Glen St Mary 96
marital unhappiness 139–41
Walter’s attitude to 99
heroism in the First World War 115, 117, 127
differences between Anne and Rilla 130
a changing Anne 93, 109—10, 114—15, 133, 139
Smith, Dorothy 74
Snaith, Barney 235–9. See also Foster, John
Sohrab and Rustum (Arnold) 150
‘Song of the Pilgrims, The’ (Brooke) 86
Sorfleet, John Robert 13
Spacks, Patricia Meyer 256n1
Spurgeon, Charles Hadden 59
Stanley, Sara 231–4, 239, 259n1
Starr, Emily 8, 12, Part I: 17, 62, 129, 133
Part II: 145—207
Part III: 211—13, 215, 220–2, 232, 234, 239, 257n1, 258nni, 2, 5
some highlights of her career: death of her father 149
her reading 146, 149–50, 176–7, 196–200, 204–5
declares herself a poet 151
locked in the spare room 157–9
‘poison’ apple scene 151–2
visit to Father Cassidy 153–4
the Pink Room at Wyther Grange 159–60
rescue by Dean 161–3
psychic experiences (Use’s mother) 166–7, (Teddy in the church) 178–9, (Allan Bradshaw) 168–9, (Teddy and the Flavian) 187–8
‘The Woman Who Spanked the King’ 72, 177, 185
Miss Royal’s invitation 170, 180
Dean’s condescension about her writing 147, 155–6, 173–5, 183–4
death of Mr Carpenter 182, 206
gives up writing 186
engagement to Dean 186
breaks engagement 188
Dean confesses about the novel 188
The Moral of the Rose 189
discovery of Mr Kent’s letter 200–1
Stirling, Valancy 8, 17, 211, 234–9, 260n4
Story Club 63
Story Girl, The 56, 77, 231–4, 259n1
Story of an African Farm, The (Schreiner) 5, 12, 146, 176, 200–7, 252n3, 258n1
Stuart, Jane 13, 212, 220, 230
Summerside, P.E.I. 131, 132, 141
Tangled Web, A 9, 145, 243–8, 252n4, 260n5
Taylor, Tom 254n2
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 4, 60, 150, 176
works: ‘Bugle Song’ 151
‘Crossing the Bar’ 92–3
‘The Day Dream’ 73
Idylls of the King 9, 26, 97, 98, 105–7, 122, 141, 176, 257n1
‘The Lady of Shalott’ 45, 109, 254n6, 256n4
‘Lancelot and Elaine’ (also Idylls of the King) 26, 27, 37, 63, 73, 253n3, 256n6
‘Locksley Hall’ 73
‘The Lotos-Eaters’ 92
‘The Miller’s Daughter’ 92
‘Oenone’ 92
‘The Palace of Art’ 34–7
‘Ulysses’ 92
Thackeray, William Makepeace 4, 60
Through the Looking-Glass (Dodgson) 224
Tillytuck 217–19
‘Tintern Abbey’ (Wordsworth) 199–200
Trollope, Anthony 4
Vance, Mary 97, 101, 102, 108, 120
Watchman and Other Poems, The 76, 150
Waterston, Elizabeth 6, 32, 39, 78, 254n 4
Whittier, John Greenleaf 40, 43, 45, 59
Wilcox, Bets 222
Wilmshurst, Rea 6, 24, 59, 92, 251n1, 253n2, 254nn2, 3, 5, 257n1
‘Woman on the Field of Battle, The’ (Hemans) 27
Wordsworth, William 4, 47, 59, 60, 92, 116, 122, 154, 199–200, 205, 231, 253–4n2
Writing a Woman’s Life (Heilbrun) 249
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) 159