L. M. Montgomery and Reading Collection

This is a collection of content--a special issue of the journal--on the theme of L.M. Montgomery & Reading. Some of the collection content was first presented at the L.M. Montgomery Institute's 13th Biennial Conference at the University of Prince Edward Island, June 21- 24, 2018.

Edited by Emily Woster and Kate Scarth.

Six book covers of Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat are aligned in a row with birch trees against a blue sky in the background
Peer-reviewed article

Reading L.M. Montgomery’s Pat Books Out of Order: Japanese Readers, Loss, and the Possibility of New Life

  • Kazuko Sakuma
    Sophia University

Drawn image of Anne of Green Gables beside a photograph of Anne Frank
Peer-reviewed article

Two Annes, Many Annes: A Writer’s Reflection on Reading Anne of Green Gables and The Diary of a Young Girl

  • Melanie J. Fishbane

Peer-reviewed article

Reading as Empowerment: Lost in the Swedish Translations of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Books

  • Laura Leden
    University of Helsinki

Audio/visual art

Cutting and Pasting: What L.M. Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks Reveal about Her Reading

  • Carolyn Strom Collins
    Author / Independent Scholar

Peer-reviewed article

Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars

  • Trinna S. Frever
    Independent Scholar

Peer-reviewed article

L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Scotland: Reading Between the Lines

  • Mary Beth Cavert
    Independent Scholar

Peer-reviewed article

Reading the Book as Object and Thing in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Series

  • E. Holly Pike
    Grenfell Campus, Memorial University

Peer-reviewed article

Canadian "Anne-Girl[s]": Literary Descendents of Montgomery's Redheaded Heroine

  • Bonnie J. Tulloch
    The University of British Columbia

Creative writing

Winter at Twin Chimneys: A Creative Continuation of the Pat Series

  • Anna Rose Johnson
    Independent Author

Peer-reviewed article

On Reading L.M. Montgomery's Essays

  • Heather Thomson
    Independent Scholar

Peer-reviewed article

Reading L.M. Montgomery: What Adult Swedish and Canadian Readers Told Us

  • Catherine Sheldrick Ross
    University of Western Ontario
  • Åsa Warnqvist
    The Swedish Institute for Children's Books

Peer-reviewed article

Rainbow Valley as Embodied Heaven: Initial Explorations into L.M. Montgomery's Spirituality in Fiction

  • Brenton D.G. Dickieson
    University of Prince Edward Island

Audio/visual art

Video: Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars

  • Trinna S. Frever

Peer-reviewed article

Reading In and Out of Order: Living In and Around an Extended Fiction

  • Margaret Mackey
    Professor Emerita, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta

Illustration. "Anne of Green Gables and Don Quixote." Provided by Julie Sellers. Illustrated by Claire Schroettner.
Peer-reviewed article

“A Good Imagination Gone Wrong”: Reading Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel

  • Julie A. Sellers
    Benedictine College

Image selected from portion of Emily of New Moon book cover
Article

Reading Time: L.M. Montgomery and the “Alembic of Fiction”

  • Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
    Professor Emerita & Founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island