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Book for sale * PALMER COX Our Brownies ABC Adventures 1898 Lovely replica book alphabet stories https://www.ebay.com/itm/265804845699

Learning to Read, Skill Building, Replica of the 1898 Edition, Some Illustrations in Full Color, Whimsical Brownie Characters, Alphabet adventures. Fully Illustrated. A Book for Children of the late 19th century.

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So I am off to a trip in Japan, but don’t worry, Sophie will still post and I have enough posts queued for the next month or so, but a perfect guest for me to talk about right now is Lucy Maud Montgomery, portrayed by Alison Louder.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born November 30, 1874 in Clifton (New London) PEI. When her mother died of tuberculosis when Lucy was 2 years old, her father sent her to live with her grandparents in Cavendish, PEI where she spent her childhood playing with her cousins and writing stories and poems.

Her first published poem was published in a newspaper when she was 14 years old. After finishing her education, she achieved her teacher’s licence and embarked on a short teaching career. Taking a break from Teaching, she studied at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the time she was one of the rare women who finished a higher education.

Montgomery’s grandfather who raised her died in 1898 and Montgomery returned home to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother.

In 1905, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote her famous novel with our favourite red head, Anne of Green Gables. Despite its popularity today, the manuscript was rejected from all the publishers she sent it to. Discouraged from the rejections, Montgomery put the manuscript in a hat box and forgot about it. Two years later, she found it again and after a couple of re-edits, sent it off to publishers again. In 1908, Page Company of Boston published Anne of Green Gables and it became a best seller.

In 1911, Montgomery married her long standing fiancé Rev. Ewan MacDonald and moved to Leaskdale, Ontario. She recorded her life in her journals and kept writing stories. Montgomery wrote about the Great War, her stillborn son, and all the trials life threw at her.

- Born Lucy Maud Montgomery, she published her works as L. M. Montgomery. As a child she was called Lucy Maud and Maudie and during her adult years, she was known as Maud.

- Cavendish is the setting for Anne of Green Gables under the name Avonlea.

- L. M. Montgomery’s Cavendish National Historic Site includes Green Gables House, Montgomery’s home, Haunted Wood Trail and other landmarks described in her writing.

- Japan really loves Anne of Green Gables, after World War II, a Canadian missionary gave her student Hanako Muraoka Anne of Green Gables which Muraoka translated into Japanese. There is an exact replica of the Green Gables in Hokkaido, Japan.

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