Episode Two: Does She Not Stand At My Elbow
Anne of Green Gables; First Edition, 1908
Evelyn Nesbitt
Read about her HERE
Maud's scrapbook
Mr. Mustard
Photo taken around the time he taught Maud in Prince Albert
Frede Campbell
(see pink arrow)
Cam MacFarlane
Frede’s Husband
Ewan Macdonald
Maud’s Husband
Maud's “Open Letter from
A Minister's Wife”
(Chatelaine Magazine, 1931)
Read it HERE
Irene Gammell's essay
"Safe Pleasures for Girls: LM Montomery's Erotic Landscapes"
can be found here in "Making Avonlea "
Episode Three: The Most Vital Subject In The World
It all begins with an idea.
Lou Dystant
A long-time admirer of Maud’s.
Maud wrote of Lou:
"(He) does very well for someone to drive me about."
November, 1894.
Maud and her fiancé/cousin
Edwin Simpson
Engaged in 1897.
Maud wrote:
"I thought I cared for him."
Herman Leard
The love of Maud's life. Their affair lasted months over 1897-1898.
She wrote:
"I loved Herman Leard madly."
Ettie Schurman
Herman Leard's fiancé.
See the pink arrow.
CBC Article - March 04, 2016
Lucy Maud Montgomery connection celebrated in Leard home restoration.
Read the article HERE
Oliver Macneill
Also a cousin, Oliver pursued Maud for marriage in 1909.
Of Oliver, Maud said in her journals:
"He sought me out everywhere."
Maud models her wedding fashions shipped from Montreal, Quebec.
Taken before her 1911 wedding to Ewan Macdonald.
Honeymoon snap taken by Maud.
New husband Ewan, pen-pal George MacMillan, & his fiancé Jean Allen in Scotland 1911.
Captain Edwin Smith, 1921
Maud wrote:
"Captain Smith is one of the few people I have met with whom I can discuss with absolute frankness, any and every subject, even the delicate ones of sex."
Isabel Anderson,
photo taken in her 30s
Included is Isabel's Valentine to Maud
(no date found)
Stef & Jen discovered this card in The University of Guelph Archives. They carefully put it back in the Agatha Christie novel in which they found it… after they took a picture!
Bosom Friends: Lesbian Desire in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books
Download the full article by Laura Robinson HERE
Episode Four: I Felt Like That Fly
It all begins with an idea.
TW: Mental Health, Death by Suicide, Drugs
Lucy Maud Montgomery's Agonizing Drug Addiction
MacLean’s Article by Alanna Mitchell, February 2020
Read Full Article HERE
Falconwood Mental Health Facility
Prince Edward Island, 1878
Cavendish Snow
Photo taken around 1900
Baby Chester
Leaskdale Ontario, around 1914
Maud and Ewan
Journey’s End: Their Final Home
Toronto, Ontario, 1937
Episode Five: A Different Breed Of Cats
It all begins with an idea.
LC Page circa 1910
This is what he would have looked like when Maud went to Boston.
On the town
Maud (pink arrow), Anita Marcone and cousin Stella Campbel (Frede's sister) in Boston.
First Editions
Page's First Editions of Maud's Chronicles of Avonlea (pink arrow indicates LC Page as publisher), 1912 and Further Chronicles of Avonlea,1920.
Still from Realart Pictures Anne of Green Gables, 1919.
Pink arrow points to Anne, played by Mary Miles Minter.
Hollywood Forever
Stef (pink arrow indicates she is scared silly) at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles.
Stef found the resting place of William Desmond Taylor (William C Deane-Tanner), the (allegedly murdered) director of 1919's Anne of Green Gables.
Episode Six: I Also See Before It A Garden
It all begins with an idea.
Canadian Authors Association Meeting
June 29th, 1937
Maud indicated by pink arrow
William Arthur Deacon
1930s
Akage No Anne
1979
Hanako Muraoka
Anne of Green Gables translator and author
We started young
Baby Stef at miniature Green Gables
(Rainbow Valley Theme Park, PEI)
Little Jenny as a witch
(Owen Sound, ON)