Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Critical Heritage BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 (1966) ELIZABETH WATERSTON 2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973) HELEN PORTER 3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983) T.D. MACLULICH 4.

Little Orphan Mary: Anne's Hoydenish Double (1989) >ROSAMOND BAILEY 5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery's "Room of Her Own" (1992) MARY RUBIO 6. Women's Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Fiction, 1918-1939 (1993) DIANE TYE 7. L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994) OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS 8.

Decoding L.M. Montgomery's Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women's Private Literature (1994) HELEN M. BUSS 9. "Fitted to Earn Her Own Living": Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995) CAROLE GERSON 10. "Pruned Down and Branched Out": Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995) LAURA M.

ROBINSON 11. Finding L.M. Montgomery's Short Stories (1995) REA WILMSHURST 12. L.M. Montgomery's Manuscript Revisions (1995) ELIZABETH EPPERLY 13. "My Secret Garden": Dis/Pleasure in L.

M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999) IRENE GAMMEL 14. Writing with a "Definite Purpose": L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000) CECILY DEVEREUX 15.

Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002) MONIQUE DULL 16. The Maud Squad (2002) CYNTHIA BROUSE 17. "The Golden Road of Youth": L.M. Montgomery and British Children's Books (2004) JENNIFER H. LITSTER 18. Women at War: L.M.

Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008) ANDREA MCKENZIE 19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008) EMILY AOIFE SOMERS 20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, "As Long as the Leaves Hold Together" (2012) VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE Sources Bibliography Index.