Trite though that line, out of context, may seem, I wept when I read it at eleven and a half, I wept when I read it at twenty-five, and I weep when I read it now for the simple reason that I know it is the truth. Emily realizes that it is the spirit of the place that keeps her there; the same spirit that has enriched and will continue to enrich her writing.
This is what Montgomery has given us, then, in Emily Climbs: a portrait of the young creative spirit of this country at adolescence - a time that is both immensely fertile and heartbreakingly fragile. Out of the raw materials of the best of her own life, she has created a world in which that young spirit can flourish and has peopled it with characters who either assist or resist the heroine and her calling, but who are, nevertheless, always drawn with great love. And she has given us a landscape, both inner and outer, that we are able to recognize as our own.
BY L.M. MONTGOMERY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1975)
BIOGRAPHY
Courageous Women [with Marian Keith
and Mabel Burns McKinley] (1934)
FICTION
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
The Story Girl (1911)
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
The Golden Road (1913)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Rainbow Valley (1919)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
Rilla of Ingleside (1920)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Emily Climbs (1925)
The Blue Castle (1926)
Emilys Quest (1927)
Magic for Marigold (1929)
A Tangled Web (1931)
Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
Mistress Pat (1935)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
Anne of Ingleside (1939)
The Road to Yesterday (1974)
The Doctors Sweetheart and Other Stories (1979)
Akin to Anne (1988)
Along the Shore (1989)
Among the Shadows (1990)
After Many Days (1991)
Against the Odds (1993)
At the Altar (1994)
Across the Miles (1995)
Christmas with Anne (1995)
JOURNALS
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, volume 1 (1889-1910)
[eds. Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston] (1985)
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, volume 2 (1910-1921)
[eds. Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston] (1987)
LETTERS
The Green Gables Letters: from L.M. Montgomery to Ephraim
Weber 1905-1909 [ed Wilfrid Eggleston] (1960)
My Dear Dr. M.: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from
L.M. Montgomery [eds. Francis WP. Bolger and
Elizabeth R Epperly] (1980)
POETRY
The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery
[eds. John Ferns and Kevin McCabe] (1987)
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