Tag Archives: Emily of New Moon

CSL:LMM, C.S. Lewis and L.M. Montgomery (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Brenton Dickieson

At A Pilgrim in Narnia, we have an occasional feature called “Throwback Thursday.” By raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s, I find a blog post from the past and throw it back out into the digital world. This … Continue reading →

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The House of Mirth and the House of Lonely Years: L.M. Montgomery on Charlotte Brontë

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

“And you … cannot at all imagine the craving I have for fraternal and sisterly love” (Jane Eyre, ch. 33). I came across this diary entry recently, quoted below, which I found fascinating as it came on the heels of … Continue reading →

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L.M. Montgomery Articles on A Pilgrim In Narnia

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

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 … Continue reading →

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A University of Prince Edward Island-L.M. Montgomery Institute Timeline (Feature Friday) #LMMI @UPEI @LMMI_PEI

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

In preparing my paper proposal for The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Fourteenth Biennial Conference at the University of Prince Edward Island (25-28 June 2020; see my paper abstract here), I made a timeline of Montgomery as a WWI-era figure. In my … Continue reading →

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Update, with Fundraiser Link: L.M. Montgomery on the Love of Trees, and Hurricane Dorian

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I was inspired in reading L.M. Montgomery’s Kilmeny of the Orchard to provide a quick update to the tragic loss of so many of the trees at Montgomery’s homestead in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. I was reading a passage, which … Continue reading →

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L.M. Montgomery on the Love of Trees, and Hurricane Dorian

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

L.M. Montgomery simply loved trees. Her journals are filled with notes about trees–the beauty of landscape, like “the groves of maple and birch just turning to scarlet and gold” (Sep 25, 1889), or the desire to disappear and run “down … Continue reading →

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A WWI-era L.M. Montgomery Timeline

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I am preparing a paper proposal for The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Fourteenth Biennial Conference at the University of Prince Edward Island (25-28 June 2020; CFP due 16 Aug 2019). In my Montgomery reading, as much as I love the first Anne … Continue reading →

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L.M. Montgomery’s Portrait of the Artist as a Ridiculous Young Man

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

While there is humour and light and poetry in Mongomery’s prose style, I suspect that most of L.M. Montgomery’s readers are first captured by her characters. Absolutely there is Anne Shirley of Green Gables: impetuous, magical, an invitation to wild … Continue reading →

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

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 →

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The Peculiar Background to L.M. Montgomery’s “The Alpine Path” (L.M. Montgomery Series)

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the more poignant aspects of Montgomery’s work for readers is how she charts her path as a writer in Emily of New Moon. Universally recognized as the book that most encoded her personality, it is also the one that … Continue reading →

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