Tag Archives: Anne of Green Gables

Full: My Experience of the L.M. Montgomery Institute Conference (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Note: This is a rewriting of my guest post at the L.M. Montgomery Institute blog. I am full. And no doubt. We have just finished a packed four and a half days of conferencing and workshopping, speaking and listening, flipping … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian literature, L.M. Montgomery, Original Research | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Eugene Peterson, intertextuality, L.M. Montgomery, literature, Lucy Maud Montgomery, PEI, PhD Research, Prince Edward Island, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, UPEI | 4 Comments

Will They Want Me Even Though I’m A Boy? Heading to the L.M. Montgomery Institute Conference (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Though Matthew and Marilla would have been considered me a fine specimen of boyish orphan for Mrs. Spencer to bring home from the orphanage, they, like my farming fathers before me, would have been disappointed. And a little puzzled, if experience … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian literature, L.M. Montgomery, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged 4H, academics, Anne of Green Gables, astronomy, farming, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, research, UPEI, Virginia Woolf | 48 Comments

Emily of New Moon’s Visitation of Beauty with Father Cassidy (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

The story I want to share, the tale of Father Cassidy in Emily of New Moon, is looked on a little darkly in some parts of L.M. Montgomery studies. Part of this is because the Emily books can be read as a … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery, Memorable Quotes, On Writing | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Anne's House of Dreams, Emily of New Moon, kindred spirits, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery | 21 Comments

In an Age of Literary Groups, L.M. Montgomery was Alone (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

I first saw the trend with the Oxford Inklings. Out of an informal Nordic literary society in the late 20s where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien first met, the Inklings began gathering in the early 30s. Although C.S. Lewis wasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Agatha Christie, Anne of Green Gables, Bloomsbury Set, D.H. Lawrence, Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, E.M. Forster, g k chesterton, Hemingway and Gellhorn, L.M. Montgomery, Midnight in Paris, Paris Expats, Rilla of Ingleside, Smart Set, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf | 22 Comments

“Stay in the Valley if You’re Wise”: Advice on Writing in Emily of New Moon (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

While L.M. Montgomery could be viewed as a writer’s writer for her prose, imaginative vim, and her shaping of characters, her novel Emily of New Moon is almost a textbook on the writer’s life. A friend tipped me off to the … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery, Memorable Quotes, On Writing | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, creative writing, Emily Climbs, Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery, Martha MacIsaac, Poetry, writing | 22 Comments

L.M. Montgomery’s Schoolmarm Visit to the Archibald MacKay Mansion (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

I have recently been enjoying L.M. Montgomery’s romantic and hilarious 1936 novel, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Windy Willows outside of North America). I was interested in the book because it is one of Montgomery’s few attempts at epistolary … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian literature, L.M. Montgomery | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Canadian literature, Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, Teaching | 8 Comments

Sehnsucht, Faërie, and the Flash: My Paper Abstracts on L.M. Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery Series) #LMMI2018

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

In reading through L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books last year, I began to sense some trends in her work–subtle currents of thought and image that began to come into focus for me. One of the beautiful parts of being a … Continue reading →