Page, L. C. Letter to Bliss Carman. 10 April 1919. Queen’s University Archives. [A small slice of fascinating literary history.]
Parker, Rowland. Men of Dunwich: The Story of a Vanished Town. London: Collins-Paladin Grafton Books, 1980.
Petlock, Bert. “Trustee Lawyer Held on $35,600 Counts.” Toronto Telegram. 14 September 1955. Front page. [Story of Chester’s arrest.]
Pierce, Lorne. An Outline of Canadian Literature (French and English). Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1927.
Prebble, John. The Highland Clearances. London: Penguin Books, 1969. [First published in 1963 by Martin Secker & Warburgh.]
Reimer, Mavis, ed. Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Metuchen, NJ: The Children’s Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Rendall, Jane. The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment (1707–1776). London: MacMillan, 1972.
Richardson, Christian Richardson, “A Canadian Novelist.” In Scrapbook of Reviews from around the World Which L. M. Montgomery’s Clipping Service Sent to Her, 1910–1935, p. 25. L. M. Montgomery Collection, University of Guelph Library Archives, Guelph, Ontario.
Robertson, Ian Ross. Letters to M. H. Rubio. 12 July 1992–2008.
________. “Reform, Literacy, and the Lease: The Prince Edward Island Free Education Act of 1852,” Acadiensis, Autumn 1990 (Vol. XX, No. 1): 52–71.
________. Sir Andrew Macphail: Life and Legacy of a Canadian Man of Letters. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. [Forthcoming biography.]
Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L. M. Montgomery. Toronto: ECW Press, 1995. [A compact biography of Montgomery online at
_________. “L. M. Montgomery: Scottish-Presbyterian Agency in Canadian Culture.” L. M.
Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Eds. Irene Gammel and Elizabeth R. Epperly. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 89–105.
_______. “ ‘A Dusting Off’: An Anecdotal Account of Editing the L. M. Montgomery
Journals.” Working in Women’s Archives: Researching Women’s Private Literature and Archival Documents. Eds. Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.
Ruggle, Richard. Norval on the Credit River. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcépic, 1973. [Vol. 1 Credit Valley History Series] [Useful history by local historian and pastor.]
Russell, Ruth Weber, D. W. Russell, and Rea Wilmshurst. Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Preliminary Bibliography. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Library, 1986. [An essential reference book. Currently being updated and put online.]
Sangster, Margaret E. Good Manners for All Occasions. New York: The Christian Herald, 1904. [A manners book.]
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Introduction by Doris Lessing. London: Century Hutchinson Ltd., 1987. [First published in Great Britain by Chapman & Hall, 1883, under the author’s name Ralph Iron, and an influential book with Montgomery.]
Sher, Richard B. Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Simpson, Harold H. Cavendish: Its History, Its People. Amherst, NS: Harold H. Simpson and Associates Limited, 1973. [Invaluable collection of materials about Cavendish, PEI, history.]
Smith, Donald. “Culture and Religion.” Scotland: A Concise Cultural History. Ed. Paul H. Scott. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. 47–60.
Smith, Edwin. M.A. thesis. 1903. University of Manitoba. [Subject: Heredity.]
Smith, W. O. Lester. Education in Great Britain. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Smout, T. C. A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830. London: William Collins and Sons, 1969.
Sobkowska, Krystana. “The Reception of the Anne of Green Gables Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery in Poland.” Dissertation, University of Lodz [Poland], 1983.
Sorfleet, John Robert, ed. L. M. Montgomery: An Assessment. Guelph, Ontario: Canadian Children’s Press, 1976. [Early attempt to establish Montgomery’s position in Canadian literary history.]
Stevenson, Lionel. Appraisals of Canadian Literature. Toronto: MacMillan, 1926.
Stewart, James Innes (“Hud”), Q.C. Letters to Mary Rubio. 22 October 1991–92. Private Collection. [Class president of Chester’s graduating class in law school.]
Stobie, Margaret. Frederick Philip Grove. New York: Twayne, 1973.
The Delineator. LXV, No. 1. January 1905. [Cover picture on this issue was used for the L. C. Page 1908 edition of Anne of Green Gables. Page later displayed the original of this picture in his library in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.]
Thomas, Clara, and John Lennox. William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. [Invaluable study of the Toronto literary culture in the mid-twentieth century and Deacon’s role in it.]
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. [Fills in social history surrounding the war.]
Vipond, Mary. “The Image of Women in Mass Circulation Magazines in the 1920s.” The Neglected Majority: Essays in Canadian Women’s History. Vol. 1. Eds. Susan Mann Trofimenkoff and Alison Prentice. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
Wachowicz, Barbara. “L. M. Montgomery: At Home in Poland.” CCL: Canadian Children’s Literature 46 (1987): 7–36. [Wachowicz, a journalist and writer in Poland, wrote the libretto for the Polish musical The Blue Castle, and organized a trip for Rubio, Waterston, and Ruth Macdonald to see this musical and a production of Anne of Green Gables in Poland in 1984.]
Wade, Ruth. The Hypatia Club: The First Hundred Years, 1907–2007: A History for the 100th Anniversary of the Hypatia Club. Uxbridge: Ruth Wade / Hypatia Club, 2007. [Montgomery contributed generously to this literary club.]
Wardle, David. English Popular Education, 1780–1970. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Waterston, Elizabeth. Kindling Spirit: L. M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables.” Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. [A study of the novel.]
__________. “Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942.” The Clear Spirit: Twenty Canadian
Women and Their Times. Ed. Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. 198–220. [Also in L. M. Montgomery: An Assessment. Ed. John Sorfleet. Guelph: Canadian Children’s Press, 1975. 9–26 / CCL: Canadian Children’s Literature 3 (1975): 9–26. Waterston’s 1966 essay was the first in-depth scholarly article that attempted to recover Montgomery as an important early Canadian woman writer.]
_________. The Magic Island: The Fictions of L. M. Montgomery. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2008. [An academic study of Montgomery’s writing intended as a companion to this biography.]
_______. “Marigold and the Magic of Memory.” Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L. M. Montgomery. Ed. Mary Henley Rubio. Guelph: Canadian Children’s Press, 1994. 155–66.
________. Rapt in Plaid: Canadian Literature and the Scottish Tradition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. [See Chapter on “Barrie, Montgomery and the Mists of Sentiment,” pp. 175–191.]
Weale, David. Them Times. Charlottetown, PEI: Institute of Island Studies, 1992.
Wood, Kate. “In the News: Anne of Green Gables and PEI’s Turn-of-the-Century Press.” CCL: Canadian Children’s Literature 99 (2000): 23–42.
_______. “Patriotic Discourse: Historicizing Anne of Green Gables and PEI’s Turn-of-the-Century Newspapers.” M.A. dissertation, University of Guelph, 1999.
Young, Alan R. “L. M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Romance and the Experience of War.” Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture, 1918–1939. Ed. Gwendolyn Davies. Fredericton: Acadiensis, 1993. 95–122.
_______. Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments. London: George Philip, 1987. [See pages 186–87 for the earl of Eglinton’s legendary 1839 tournament.]
RECENT CRITICAL EDITIONS OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
Montgomery, L. M. Anne of G
reen Gables [1908]. Ed. Cecily Devereux. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2004. [A Broadview Critical Edition with useful critical essays on many aspects of the novel and the literary culture it evolved from.]
_______. Anne of Green Gables [1908]. Eds. Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston. New York: Norton, 2007. [A Norton Critical Edition which contains essays on the publishing history, the surrounding context, and the reception of the novel.]
__________. The Annotated Anne of Green Gables [1908]. Eds. Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, and Mary E. Doody Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [An edition rich with supplementary material and pictures.]
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