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Showing posts with label L. M. Montgomery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L. M. Montgomery. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 July 2024

The reader's dilemma: so many books, so little time

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T he article about L. M. Montgomery's compulsion to read and write  contains this quotation from one of her journals: “ I doubt if I sha...
Thursday, 9 May 2024

Three writers' words on two kinds of pain

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E xtracts from L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's Green Gables letters  have appeared in several articles in the past.  E phraim  Weber, th...
Friday, 19 April 2024

A few more quotations from L. M. Montgomery's Green Gables Letters

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M any elements in the life, letters and works of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery are of great relevance to this blog; several topics and public...
Thursday, 24 November 2022

A few words about Frances Hodgson Burnett on her birthday

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T he writer Frances Hodgson Burnett was born on this day, November 24th, in 1849.  S he was briefly mentioned in the article that lists some...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022

A last look at the depressing biography of Jean Rhys

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T he previous articles in the series inspired by Carole Angier's biography Jean Rhys: Life and Work have covered most of the book's...
Wednesday, 7 July 2021

May Sinclair, Jean Rhys, L. M. Montgomery and the Brontës

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A fter producing some articles about May Sinclair's novella The Flaw in the Crystal , I decided to investigate her background in the hop...
Tuesday, 15 June 2021

More about Walter de la Mare's Return

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T he first article about Walter de la Mare's horror novel The Return  ended at the point where Arthur Lawford, whose appearance has chan...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Jean Rhys, L. M. Montgomery, Jane Eyre and public libraries

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T erry Pratchett  has said that he owes a great debt to the public libraries that he used as a boy. J ean Rhys and L. M. Montgomery are two ...
Monday, 15 February 2021

L. M. Montgomery, curses and two suspicious deaths

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T he article about the novelist Mary Webb  contains an account of what happened some years after her death to her husband and his second wif...
Monday, 4 January 2021

Money and envy in Stella Gibbons's My American

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T his article in the series inspired by Stella Gibbons’s My American contains some minor material of particular interest. The power of mone...
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Context and the total picture: Part III

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T he previous article  in the series describes how some people who for better or worse put painful personal experiences into the context of ...
Sunday, 27 September 2020

Some writers with Celtic connections

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T he starting point for this article was a line in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novella The Parasite , which has been the subject of many articl...
Friday, 31 July 2020

Artemis Fowl and the demon cult leader: Part I

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I read the first three of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl  fantasy novels when they were first published. I remembered them recently when compil...
Thursday, 23 July 2020

John Buchan, L. M. Montgomery and some snakes

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I neither love and revere snakes nor hate and fear them. I once horrified a friend by trying to stroke a big snake in a small zoo. I couldn’...
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Context and the total picture: Part II

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P art I  introduces the idea that putting painful experiences into the context of the lives of well-known people can have both positive and ...
Friday, 21 February 2020

What do Alan Garner and L. M. Montgomery have in common?

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A previous article describes how neither Noel Streatfeild nor Isaac Asimov  ever forgot being refused some information that they had eagerl...
Monday, 20 January 2020

L. M. Montgomery and Rudyard Kipling’s Cat

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The Cat That Walked by Himself is one of the stories in Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic Just So Stories (1902).  T his book contain...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

L. M. Montgomery on Rudyard Kipling and writing to order

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I t came as no great surprise to learn recently that L. M. Montgomery was familiar with the works of Rudyard Kipling: as mentioned in previo...
Thursday, 24 October 2019

L. M. Montgomery on the value of words

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I knew almost nothing about L. M. Montgomery at the time I produced the article about the value of words . I had always assumed that there ...
Friday, 30 August 2019

Writers: three views from L. M. Montgomery

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P revious articles have covered some of L.M. Montgomery’s thoughts about reading and writing. H er short story The Waking of Helen (190...