TEXTUAL REFERENCES AND SOURCES
[Anon.] A Bad Boy’s Diry, By the Author of Blunders of a Bashful Man, etc. New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1880.
[Anon.]. CENTENNIAL: Union Presbyterian Church (Esquesing), 1833–1933. Glen Williams, Ontario: Union Presbyterian Church. Reprinted and updated in 1983 as 1833–1933 / Union Presbyterian Church / 1933–1983 [The 1933 booklet was researched and written by the Reverend Ewan Macdonald.]
[Anon.] “Latest Gossip of Book World … Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston.” In Red Scrapbook #1, ca. 1910–1914, p. 13. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph.
[Anon.] “Miss L. M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables.” The Republic. November 19, 1910, p. 5. In Red Scrapbook #1, ca. 1910–1914, p. 15. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph.
[Anon.] One Hundred Years to the Glory of God: Norval Presbyterian Church, 1878–1978. Norval, Ontario: Norval Presbyterian Church.
[Anon.] “Says Woman’s Place is Home: Authoress Gives Views on Suffrage,” The Republic, November 19, 1910, p. 5. In Red Scrapbook #1, ca. 1910–1914, p. 15. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph.
[Anon.] Toronto Telegram, March 24, 1937. [W. A. Deacon on the function of a critic.]
Åhmansson, Gabriella. A Life and Its Mirrors: A Feminist Reading of L. M. Montgomery’s Fiction. Vol. 1. Uppsala [Sweden]: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1991. [Excellent study of Montgomery’s writing from a feminist perspective.]
Allen, David. Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993.
Anderson, Robert David. Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland. London: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Anstruther, Ian. The Knight and the Umbrella: An Account of the Eglinton Tournament, 1839. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1963.
Auld, Walter C. Voices of the Island: History of the Telephone on Prince Edward Island. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing Co., 1985.
Bacon, Jean, & Stuart Bacon. The Suffolk Shoreline and the Sea. Colchester, Essex: Segment Publications, 1984.
Baglole, Harry, ed. Exploring Island History: A Guide to the Historical Resources of Prince Edward Island. Belfast, PEI: Ragweed, 1977.
Betts, E. Arthur. Pine Hill Divinity Hall: 1820–1970, A History. Halifax, NS: Pine Hill Divinity Board of Governors, 1970. [Where Ewan Macdonald studied.]
Blind, Mathilde. George Eliot. London: W. H. Allen, 1883. [Influential as a model for young L. M. Montgomery.]
Bolger, F. W. P. The Years Before “Anne.” Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1974. [An invaluable resource containing the Penzie MacNeill letters and early publications of Montgomery.]
Bone, T. R. Studies in the History of Scottish Education, 1872–1939. London: University of London Press, 1967.
Bruce, Marian. A Century of Excellence: Prince of Wales College, 1860–1969. Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2005.
Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Edward. Zanoni. New York: Harper, 1847. [A very influential book on the young Montgomery.]
Bumsted. J. M. “Scottish Emigration to the Maritimes, 1770–1815: A New Look at an Old Theme.” Acadiensis. Spring 1981 (vol. 10, no 2): 65–85.
Buss, Helen M. “Decoding L. M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature.” Essays on Canadian Writing 54 (Winter 1994): 80–100.
Carter, Joan (Browne). Norval History: 1820–1950. Norval, Ontario: Privately printed, 1996. [School contemporaries of Stuart Macdonald.]
Cavendish Literary Society Notes. Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office, Charlottetown. [Complete minutes and other records of the Cavendish Literary Society from its organization, February 19, 1886, until it discontinued meeting, January 7, 1924.]
Chapman, Ethel M. “The Author of ‘Anne.’ ” Maclean’s Magazine. October 1919 (vol. 32): 103–104, 106. [Maclean’s Magazine Series: Women and Their Work.] Also located in Scrapbook of Reviews: 170–71.
Clark, (Rev.) John A. The Young Disciple; or, A Memoir of Anzonetta Peters. New York: The American Tract Society, 1854(?).
Clarke, Edward Hammond. Sex in Education, or a Fair Chance for Girls. 1873. [Available through Project Gutenberg texts.]
Clarkson, Adrienne. Interview with Margaret Laurence. CBC TV. Toronto. 1966.
_____. Foreword. L. M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Eds. Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ix–xii.
Cleckley, Hervey. The Mask of Sanity. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1941. [This book is still considered the classic book on the psychopath (or sociopath) and is available online.]
Clifford, Lucy Lane (Mrs. W. K. Clifford). Love Letters of a Worldly Woman. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1891.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Conrad, Marjory. “Recording Angels: The Private Chronicles of Women from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, 1750–1950.” The Neglected Majority: Essays in Canadian Women’s History. Vol. 2. Eds. Alison L. Prentice and Susan Mann Trofimenkoff. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 41–60.
Corr, Helen. “An Exploration into Scottish Education.” People and Society in Scotland. Vol. 2. Eds. W. Hamish Fraser and R. J. Morris. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers in association with the Economic and Social Society of Scotland, 1990. 290–309.
Corse, Sarah M. Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Corston, John B. Twenty Years at Pine Hill Divinity Hall. Halifax, NS: Maritime Conference Archives Committee, United Church of Canada, 1982.
Cousins, Elizabeth M. B. L. Montgomeries of Eglinton. Strathclyde Department of Education, Ayr Division (Scotland). n.d. [circa 1980–90?]
Daly, Whitman Cecil. Prince Edward Island, the Way It Was: A Glimpse into the Past. PEI: Privately printed, 1978; reprinted 1984.
Davie, George. The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1961. See also by Davie: A Passion for Ideas: Essay on the Scottish Enlightenment. Vol 2. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994, and The Scottish Enlightenment and Other Essays. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991.
Davies, Robertson. “The Creator of ‘Anne.’ ” Peterborough Examiner. 2 May 1942: 4.[Obituary for Montgomery by a young newspaperman who became a major Canadian novelist.]
De la Motte Fouqué, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Karl. Undine: A Tale. (1811). Translated from the German by Edmund Gosse. Connecticut: Hyperion Press, 1978. [Important influence on Montgomery.]
Deacon, William Arthur. Letter to Dr. Logan. 20 October 1924. Deacon Collection. Robarts Library, Toronto.
_______. Poteen: A Pot-Pourri of Canadian Essays. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers, 1926. [The book leading the attack on Montgomery’s celebrity.]
Dwight, Phoebe, “Want to Know How to Write Book? Well Here’s a Real Recipe / Author of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ tells the Right Time to Mount Pegasus and Give Him the Rein.” In Red Scrapbook #1, ca. 1910–1914, pp. 13–14. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph Library Archives, Guelph, Ontario.
Egoff, Sheila. The Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children’s Literature in English. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967. Rev. 1975. Rev. and expanded, with Judith Saltman, as The New Republic of Childhood, in 1990.
Ehrenrich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
Epperly, Elizabeth R. “Approaching the Montgomery Manuscripts.” Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L. M. Montgomery. Ed. Mary Henley Rubio. Guelph: Canadian Children’s Press, 1994. 74–83.
________. The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L. M. Montgomery’s Heroines and the Pursuit of
Romance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Franklyn, Charles Aub
rey Hamilton. A Genealogical History of the Families of Montgomerie of Garboldisham, Hunter of Knap and Montgomerie of Fittleworth. UK: Ditchling Press, 1967.
Fraser, Sir William [1816–98]. Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton. Volumes 1 and 2. Edinburgh: 1859.
Fullarton, John. Historical Memoir of the Family of Eglinton and Winton: Together with Relative Notes and Illustrations. [1864].
_________. Records of the Burgh of Prestwick in the Sheriffdom of Ayr, MCCCCLXX-MDCCLXXXII. (1834).
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Scotch. Toronto: MacMillan Company of Canada, 1964.
Gammel, Irene, ed. Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Gerson, Carole. “Canadian Women Writers and American Markets, 1880–1940.” Context of North America: Canadian / US Literary Relations. Ed. Camille La Bossière. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994. 106–18.
______. “ ‘Dragged at Anne’s Chariot Wheels’: The Triangle of Author, Publisher, and
Fictional Character.” L. M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Eds. Irene Gammel and Elizabeth R. Epperly. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
________. “ ‘Fitted to Earn her own Living’: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of
L. M. Montgomery.” Children’s Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture: Essays on Childhood. Ed. Hilary Thompson. Guelph: Canadian Children’s Press, 1995. 24–35.
Gillen, Mollie. The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery. Don Mills: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1975. [An excellent early biography.]
Girouard, Mark. The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. [See Chapter 7 for the account of the Eglinton Tournament.]
Golomb, Beatrice Alexandra. Vol. 2. A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Pyridostigmine Bromide. National Defense Research Institute: RAND, 1999. [Recent research on bromide poisoning. See also Horowitz, 1997, and Wacks, Oster, et al., 1990.]
Grant, Nigel, and Walter Humes. “Scottish Education.” Scotland: A Concise Cultural History. Ed. Paul H. Scott. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. 357–72.
Graves, Dianne. A Crown of Life: The World of John McCrae. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 1997. [McCrae, who met Montgomery in 1910, links to Anne’s son, Walter, who dies in World War I.]
Grey, Earl. Letters to L. M. Montgomery. 20 September 1910; 30 September 1910; 3 October 1910; 1 December 1910. Letter to Prof. John Macnaughton. 27 September 1910 (reply from Macnaughton: 29 September 1910). Earl Grey Fonds. National Archives of Canada.
Grimble, Ian. Highland Man. Edinburgh: Highlands and Islands Development Board, 1980. See also by Grimble: Scottish Clans and Tartans. London: Hamlyn, 1973.
Halliday, James. Scotland: A Concise History, B.C., to 1990. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1990.
Hare, Robert D. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us. (1993). New York and London: Guilford Press, 1999.
Harrington, Lyn. Syllables of Recorded Time: The Story of the Canadian Authors Association, 1921–1981. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1981.
Haslam, Lucy Palmer. Personal diaries. Private collection of Michael Bliss family. [Lucy Palmer Haslam taught Montgomery briefly.]
Henderson, Hamish. “The Oral Tradition.” Scotland: A Concise Cultural History. Ed. Paul H. Scott. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. 159–71.
Humes, Walter M., and Hamish Paterson. Scottish Culture and Scottish Education, 1800–1980. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1983.
Hutton, Jack, and Linda Jackson-Hutton. Lucy Maud Montgomery and Bala: A Love Story of the North Woods. Gravenhurst: Watts Printing, 1998. [Creators of the “Bala Museum with memories of L. M. Montgomery.”]
Insch, George Pratt. School Life in Old Scotland: From Contemporary Sources. Edinburgh: Educational Institute of Scotland, 1925.
Kalant, Harold. Numerous e-mails (1990s to 2007). [University of Toronto specialist in pharmacology.]
Karr, Clarence. Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.
Kennedy, Michael. “ ‘The People are Leaving’: Highland Emigration to Prince Edward Island.” The Island Magazine. Spring/Summer 2003. 31ff.
_______. “Emigrants on the Edinburgh, 1771: A New Passenger List for Prince Edward
Island.” The Island Magazine, vol. 39 (Spring-Summer 1996), pp. 39–42. See also by Kennedy: Is leis an Tighearna an talamh agus an lan: [The earth and all that it contains belongs to God: The Scottish Gaelic Settlement History of Prince Edward Island]. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. See also: The P.E.I. Ships Database http://www.islandregister.com/ship_data.html and http://www.ralstongenealogy.com/edbrglst.htm for “Two lists of Intending Passengers to the New World, 1770 and 1771” which lists Hugh and Neill Montgomery on the Edinburgh, going to “St. Johns.” See also: Passenger list to the brigantine “Isle of Skye” in 1806 which includes Macdonalds.
King [Morgan], Violet. Letter to Mary Rubio. October 15, 1992. Private collection.
Knister, Raymond. [Unpublished article.] The Journal of Canadian Fiction, vol. IV, no. 2, 1975. [This apparently unpublished essay on the Canadian girl was among Knister’s papers when he drowned in 1932. Knister had read Anne of Green Gables, for he mentioned it in a review he wrote of the Emily books.]
Ladies’ Indispensable Assistant, Being a Companion for the Sister, Mother, and Wife, containing more information for the price than any other work upon the subject. Here are the very best directions for the behaviour and etiquette of Ladies and Gentlemen… New York: Published at 128 Nassau Street, 1852. [A well-circulated North American “manners” book with samples of proposals like those in Montgomery’s journals.]
Logan, John Daniel, and Donald G. French. Highways of Canadian Literature: A Synoptic Introduction to the Literary History of Canada (English) from 1760 to 1924. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1924.
Lynch, Michael. Scotland: A New History. London: Pimlico, 1991. See also: Lynch, “Scottish Culture in Its Historical Perspective.” Scotland: A Concise Cultural History. Ed. Paul H. Scott. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. 15–45.
Macdonald, E[wan] Stuart. Letter to Mrs. L. O. Ekeberg of Sweden. 24 September 1960. Private collection.
Macdonald, Rev. E[wan]. “P. E. I. Recruiting Record.” Letter to the Globe. Undated. In Red Scrapbook #2, ca 1913–1926, p. 57. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph Library Archives, Guelph, Ontario.
MacGillivray, Allan. Decades of Harvest: A History of the Township of Scott, 1807–1973. Uxbridge, Ontario: Scott History Committee, 1986. [Invaluable source of information on the Leaskdale area by local historian and museum curator.]
Macgregor, Forbes. Greyfriars Bobby: The Real Story at Last. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1990. [Cf. “Dog Monday” in Rilla of Ingleside.]
MacMechan, Archibald. Head-Waters of Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1924.
MacMurchy, Marjory. “L. M. Montgomery: Island Writer,” p. 50. Scrapbook of Reviews from around the world which L. M. Montgomery’s clipping service sent to her, 1910–1935. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph.
Macnaughton, John. Some Personal Impressions of the Late Earl Grey. Montreal: McGill University Publications #9, 1926. [This article was reprinted from The University Magazine, October 1917.]
Macphail, Andrew. Essays in Fallacy. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. [Other Macphail material came from PEI newspapers, from the Macphail Homestead Museum in Orwell, PEI, and from Ian Ross Robertson, Macphail’s biographer.]
Mahon, A. Wylie. “The Old Minister in The Story Girl.” In Scrapbook of Reviews from Around the World Which L. M. Montgomery’s Clipping Service Sent to her, 1910–1935. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph Library Archives, Guelph, Ontario. [Attri
butes many tales about ministers to Leander Macneill’s stories of the Reverend John Sprott.]
Malpeque Historical Society (compiled by). Malpeque and Its People. PEI: Malpeque Historical Society, 1982. [See entry on “Montgomery.”]
Marquis, Thomas Guthrie. English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook, & Company, 1913. [An early and positive assessment of Montgomery.]
McKillop, A. B. The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H. G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2000.
Mechie, Stewart, with James Mackintosh. Trinity College Glasgow, 1856–1956. Glasgow: Collins Clear-type Press, 1956. [The Presbyterian Seminary where Ewan Macdonald did advanced study.]
Memorables of the Montgomeries: a Narrative in Rhyme, composed before the present century, printed from the only copy known to remain, which has been preserved above sixty years by the care of Hugh Montgomerie senior at Eaglesham, long one of the factors of the family of Eglintoun. Glasgow: Foulis, 1770. [Foulis Collection at Guelph, #511.]
Montgomerie, Alexander [1545?—1611?]. The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie: with biographical notices. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co, 1821. [See “The Flyting Betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart,” written circa 1629, pp. 99–132, as an example of Scottish flyting in verse.] [Scottish Collection at Guelph]
Montgomery, Hugh John. “When Cast Away on the Magdalen Islands, For his Sister M. Montgomery, January 20, 1865.” L. M. Montgomery Collection. University of Guelph. [This is an unpublished poem by Montgomery’s father.]
Murray, Heather. Come, Bright Improvement: The Literary Societies of Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Mustard, Margaret H. L. M. Montgomery as Mrs. Ewan Macdonald of the Leaskdale Manse, 1911–1926. Leaskdale, Ontario: St. Paul’s Presbyterian Women’s Association, 1965. [Commentary by people who knew Montgomery in Leaskdale years.]
Neary, Hilary Bates. “William Renwick Riddell: Judge, Ontario Publicist and Man of Letters.” A Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette. September 1977 (vol. XI, 3): 172. [For a fuller look at the range of Riddell’s publications, see Neary’s 1977 M.A. thesis, Department of History, University of Western Ontario.]
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