Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.

L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, on November 30, 1874, to Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill. When Montgomery was 21 months old, her mother died of tuberculosis.

Jan 1, 2013 · Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE, writer (born 30 November 1874 in Clifton (now New London), PEI; died 24 April 1942 in Toronto, ON). Lucy Maud Montgomery is arguably Canada’s most widely read author. Her first novel, Anne of Green …

Feb 17, 2025 · Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian regional romantic novelist, best known for Anne of Green Gables (1908), a sentimentalized but often charming story of a spirited, unconventional orphan girl who finds a home with an elderly couple.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author who penned the famous novel, ‘Anne of the Green Gables’. This biography offers detailed information about her childhood, career, life & timeline.

Oct 10, 2024 · In 1942, if the iconic Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery had ended her life by her own hand, it was a secret to be protected at all costs. Today, thankfully, the world has changed to become a place where the Anne of Green Gables author needn’t have suffered in such shame and secrecy.

The 27 April 1942 Canadian plebiscite on conscription could be a factor in the timing of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s death on 24 April. She had already written that if conscription happened, she would “give up all effort to recover” because she would “have nothing to live for.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) is known throughout the world for putting Prince Edward Island on the literary map. But did you know she spent her married life in Ontario, as the wife of a Presbyterian minister? Montgomery is best known for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, or "Maud" as she was known to all who were close to her, is one of Canada's most beloved authors. A writer of poetry, short-stories, and more than twenty novels, she is known most famously for her series of books …

About Maud. LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY wrote 11 of her 22 novels at home in rural Leaskdale, Ontario, north of Uxbridge. Her personal journals tell her story. Her poetry reflects her feelings. Here she wrote… and here she dreamed. The Leaskdale Manse was the first home the author could call her own.