Quotations from the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery are published with the permission of Ruth Macdonald, David Macdonald, and John G. McClelland. I am grateful to them for this permission and also for their encouragement with this project. I am also much indebted to Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, whose joint and separate works on Montgomery are essential to us all. They have been unfailingly generous with their knowledge and energy. Thanks to the E. Stuart Macdonald Estate and the L.M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph Library and Oxford University Press for permission to quote from L.M. Montgomery’s journals. My thanks to the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlotte-town – and most especially to Moncrieff Williamson, Mark Holton, and Kevin Rice – for permission to examine and make use of L.M. Montgomery’s manuscripts. My thanks also to Karen Walsh, with whom I have enjoyed many delightful conversations about Montgomery and imagination. I would also like to thank George and Maureen Campbell of Silver Bush on Prince Edward Island for involving me with their L.M. Montgomery newsletter, Kindred Spirits of P.E.I., and for welcoming me into a very personal dimension of the Montgomery world.