Tag Archives: L.M. Montgomery

A Very Merry MaudCast, and Fireside Poetry for Winter Solstice

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

I must admit that this calendar year, 2020, is one upon which I will be pleased to turn the calendar. Among many of the terrible, terrible events of 2020–events that sound more like the Apocalypse or a Creedance Clearwater Revival … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery, News & Links, Reflections, The MaudCast | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Windy Poplars, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, O. Henry, Poetry, Signum University, The Gift of the Magi, The MaudCast | 7 Comments

My “Spin Time” Session as Guest DJ on CBC

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

Here is a super local moment on this global blog: I have recently been the Spin Time DJ on our local afternoon CBC radio show, Mainstreet. That means that on the Friday drive home, I got to choose 3 songs … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links | Tagged Bad Day, Blue Like Jazz, C.S. Lewis, CBC, Chagall Guevara, Dan Fogelberg, Daniel Powter, Kiss Me, L.M. Montgomery, Leader of the Band, Sarah MacLaughlan, Sixpence None the Richer, Steve Taylor, The Screwtape Letters, Walt Whitman | 8 Comments

MaudCast S01E06: Carolyn Strom Collins and the Anne of Green Gables Manuscript

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

Recently, I was privileged to sit down with Carolyn Strom Collins for an interview about her work. Carolyn is an author and independent scholar, having written and edited books and articles on L.M. Montgomery (you can see her Montgomery Studies … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery, News & Links, Reflections, The MaudCast | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Carolyn Strom Collins, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott., Lucy Maud Montgomery, The MaudCast, The Secret Garden, The Shining Scroll | 11 Comments

The Poets Behind C.S. Lewis’ Paragraph about WWI, with Wilfred Owen

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

I have struggled in the past to understand C.S. Lewis’ complicated relationship with WWI–the Great War, as they called it. In my piece, “Marching as to War: C.S. Lewis on His Way to the Front Line,” I tried to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Canada, Götterdämmerung, In Flanders Fields, L.M. Montgomery, Narnia, Ragnarök, Remembrance Day, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Spirits in Bondage, Surprised by Joy, Tennyson, The Chronicles of Narnia, The War Poets, Wilfred Owen, WWI, WWII | 30 Comments

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 →