A Name for Herself

Selected Writings, 1891-1917

L.M. Montgomery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

454 Seiten

2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2308-4 (ISBN)

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This book collects a majority of Montgomery’s early and non-fiction publications across a variety of forms and places them in the context of her career and the narrative strategies of women authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While these works consisted primarily of poems and short stories, she also experimented with a wider range of forms, particularly during the early years of her career, at which point she tested out several authorial identities before settling on the professional moniker "L.M. Montgomery."

A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 is the first in a series of volumes collecting Montgomery’s extensive contributions to periodicals. Leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre discusses these so-called miscellaneous pieces in relation to the works of English-speaking women writers who preceded her and the strategies they used to succeed, including the decision to publish under gender-neutral signatures. Among the highlights of the volume are Montgomery’s contributions to student periodicals, a weekly newspaper column entitled "Around the Table," a long-lost story narrated first by a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and then by the man she wishes she had married instead, and a new edition of her 1917 celebrity memoir, "The Alpine Path." Drawing fascinating links to Montgomery’s life writing, career, and fiction, this volume will offer scholars and readers alike an intriguing new look at the work of Canada’s most enduringly popular author.

Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface
A Note on the Text

Part 1: Early and Student Publications
The Wreck of the "Marco Polo"
A Western Eden
From Prince Albert to P.E. Island
The Usual Way
Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse
High School Life in Saskatchewan
Valedictory
"Portia" – A Study
"Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?"
Crooked Answers
The Bad Boy of Blanktown School
James Henry, Truant
A Girl's Place at Dalhousie College
To the Editor

Part 2: Maud Montgomery, Newspaper Woman
A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery
Around the Table
Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers
Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores
Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates
Netted Doily
Innocent Irreverence

Part 3: The Upward Climb to Heights Sublime
Two Sides of a Life Story
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	The L.M. Montgomery Library
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4875-2308-4 / 1487523084
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2308-4 / 9781487523084
Zustand	Neuware