Including posts for the 2020 Vision Forum, the launch of the Maudcast, and my 2018 spring L.M. Montgomery series, I have published more than two dozen notes and articles on Montgomery and her work! And I still have a few in mind that I haven’t gotten to yet–including some notes about growing up in “the Land of Anne,” so to speak. As we close off the 2020 conference week, I thought I would gather together the Montgomery posts so far.

Published Papers

• Rainbow Valley as Embodied Heaven: Initial Explorations into L.M. Montgomery’s Spirituality in Fiction in the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies (full open access)
• “C.S. Lewis’s Theory of Sehnsucht as a Tool for Theorizing L.M. Montgomery’s Experience of ‘The Flash,’” in The Faithful Imagination: Papers from the 2018 Francis White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends (available for purchase; see review by Allison McBain Hudson here)

Thoughts from Reading Montgomery

At its core, A Pilgrim in Narnia is a readers’ blog, capturing the experience of reading great books. I love books, and when I write I want to see something of the heart, the inside of a text or a text-world. Most of my posts about Montgomery, then, are about things that come of reading her works–sometimes while reading others, sometimes in thinking about her life story, and sometimes close reading of her novels or poetry.

• CSL:LMM, C.S. Lewis and L.M. Montgomery
• In an Age of Literary Groups, L.M. Montgomery was Alone
• The World as a “Vale of Soul-Making”: A Brief Note on John Keats, C.S. Lewis, and L.M. Montgomery
• Can Cod-liver Oil Cure Us of Poetry? A Thought on the Uselessness of Poets in Today’s Economy from L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley
• L.M. Montgomery’s Portrait of the Artist as a Ridiculous Young Man
• “Stay in the Valley if You’re Wise”: Advice on Writing in Emily of New Moon
• Emily of New Moon’s Visitation of Beauty with Father Cassidy
• The Peculiar Background to L.M. Montgomery’s “The Alpine Path”
• L.M. Montgomery’s Schoolmarm Visit to the Archibald MacKay Mansion

Book Reviews

I don’t do a tonne of book reviews, often preferring to write a quick note or a larger reflection. Of my book reviews, they are often background bits like my 10 Minute Book Talk about Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women or notes about my reading experience, like “Why I Love Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice … Even Though I’m a Guy.” Still, I have done some Montgomery related book reviews:

• L.M. Montgomery’s The Watchman and Other Poems, a Review
• L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley: A 10 Minute Book Talk
• House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg, a Review

L.M. Montgomery Resources

This is still a new area for me, but I have three main links–two for resources I developed and one that I posted about:

• A WWI-era L.M. Montgomery Timeline
• An L.M. Montgomery Institute Timeline
• The MaudCast: The Podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute
  • S01:E00: The MaudCast Teaser
  • S01E01: Lesley Clement, Launch of the Vision Forum
  • S01E02: Laura Leden, L.M. Montgomery and Nordic Translation
  • S01E03: Kate Scarth and the L.M. Montgomery Institute

You can also read about the issues that Cavendish had in 2019 storms when it comes to Montgomery’s homestead. See here, and especially here where I talk about Montgomery’s love of trees in more detail.

Notes About Research and Conferences

• The 2020 L.M. Montgomery Conference CFP, my acceptance and abstract, and the 2020 Vision Forum
• The 2018 L.M. Montgomery Conference CFP, and my acceptance and abstract
• Will They Want Me Even Though I’m A Boy? Heading to the L.M. Montgomery Institute Conference
• Full: My Experience of the L.M. Montgomery Institute Conference