The Life and Times of LM Montgomery

[@dorotasmolinska115]

I love Ann as a therapy book. Whenever I am depressed I just go to Ann's World and I got my medication. Why you are saying that she was not pursuing greatness in her? I do not read Virginia Wolf on regular basis. I have read Ann's story more than 20 times already and I am only 40. My dad loved it too. Treated as a medicament for the unhappy soul it has much more value to many people around the world.

[@eugeniahamberg-kosciuk1812]

Me to!!!

[@marcielicea5531]

Same! It’s a world I escape to that’s full of simple wonder and hope. Channeling my inner Anne makes life less heavy on the chest.

How dare you write Anne without an E 😂

[@EmoryStudy]

@ I thought exactly that 😒

[@RNSforlife]

Preach. I re-read the books over 20 times. It was good for my depression too - I can't stand Virginia Woolf.

[@marysmith8876]

I do hope she knows what joy she has given to all of us. I think in her mind, she lived inside her stories. Wonderful lady xx

[@Dinahflo1]

Emily of New Moon is my favorite character and seems more like the real Lucy sounds here.

[@gittepige07]

Why do people assume that L.M. Montgomery would only be like one of her characters. Listening to this documentary I find that I recognize her in many different characters, and not just the heroines.

[@kohedunn]

+gittepige07 Lucy Maud was nothing like the people she wrote about.. If you want to know who she was , read her Journals ! I have them all ..... You will not be able to put them down.... I purchased mine as and when they became available...I could hardly wait for the next volume. Two women who took years to set them to print with permission of her son Stuart, have done a fantastic job .. I envy you now , seeing them for the first time and getting 'stuck in " for a good read ! turn off your phone and enjoy the best historical , right from the horses mouth, truth read , you will ever have about this fascinating lady...

[@bobdonda]

I wouldn't say "nothing like them", since Anne is based on her own childhood. Her parents died when she was young, she was raised by older people, she was often lonely and had imaginary friends and often imagined fantasy stories. She loves Prince Edward Island and thinks it's a beautiful place, and in her teens and 20s she had a lot of friends and active social life. Anne seems like an exaggerated and idealized version of herself, who lives in a more interesting world.

[@bobdonda]

That's an interesting point. She knows the cheerfulness and wild imagination of Anne, but she also knew what it's like to be a depressed Marilla who is in need of someone like Anne in her life. But I was sad to learn that her later years were so unpleasant and there was no perfect Anne-like solution to solve her troubles and make everyone happy again. I hoped to discover that like Laura Ingalls Wilder, she went on to live out a full and happy life... but it was not to be. It's a shame she became so obsessed with WWI and WWII and couldn't keep her mind off the terribleness of war. You know, I wonder how Laura felt when she lived through those times... but since she lived until 1957 she got to see that everything turned out well enough in the end.

[@anonb4632]

@@bobdonda She lived until 1957 she got to see everything turned out well enough in the end." - Long enough to see the Cold War begin and the threat of nuclear war.

[@Mondoshawn]

She was really ahead of her time with everything. I admire her because she released her diary that showed her full range of emotions. Emotions like anger, frustration or lust are just beeing slowly accepted for women. Even in the year of the documentary the men was shocked that she was a sexual beeing!

[@FrangoTraidor]

i actually thought your comment was relevant until you brought up your trite feminism poppycock

[@doreekaplan2589]

Bees are insects. No such word as 'beeing'. For free there is help for adult writing with Spellcheck, Grammerly, Dictionary, Google, Encyclopedia.

[@KemptonLam]

13:43 The segment about Maud's long journey to get her book published is one that I enjoy a lot. Thanks for sharing this video. P.S. I am a big fan of CBC's Anne (2017). It is a lot darker than other TV or movies for sure but it is very well made!

[@mounireaddevil]

Anne of green gables is my favorite piece of literature

[@thevintagepoet]

I love this documentary. I grew up on pei. I think Emily from Emily of new moon was a character that was close to LM Montgomerys personally

[@mrscottoncandydarlinglife]

Thank you so much for sharing this !!! I was lucky enough to go to PEI 2 years ago I had been wanting to go since I was a child . I love Anne Of Green Gables and LM Montgomery she was a lovely lady who had a lot of hardships in her personal life but brought joy to so many others in this world and I thank her so much for sharing as much as she could going throw all that she went throw in life ,its truly amazing !!! Big Hugs xoxo

[@emilyhanane18]

her life was much like her novel "emily of new moon"

[@JillShaw]

Yes she said that one was the most like her own life.

[@marymary5494]

I came here after listening to The Blue Castle. 👌💕

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Love her works: Lucy Maud Montgomery's books on Anne Shirley: № Book Date published Timeline year 1 Anne of Green Gables 1908 11-16 2 Anne of Avonlea 1909 16-18 3 Anne of the Island 1915 18-22 4 Anne of Windy Poplars (Canada and USA) Anne of Windy Willows (UK and Australia) 1936 22-25 5 Anne's House of Dreams 1917 25-27 6 Anne of Ingleside 1939 34-40 The following books focus on Anne's children, or on other family friends. Anne appears in these volumes, but plays a lesser part. № Book Date published Timeline year 7 Rainbow Valley 1919 41-43 8 Rilla of Ingleside 1921 49-53 9 The Blythes Are Quoted 2009 40-75 Anne Shirley features in one story (and is referenced in other stories) in each of the following collections: № Book Date published Timeline year - Chronicles of Avonlea 1912 approx. 20 - Further Chronicles of Avonlea 1920 approx. 20

[@saaraluv4]

I feel like her childhood was the bases for the character of little Elizabeth (Lizzy). Who is left with her maternal grandmother and is neglected and repressed because they hated her for “killing” her mom at her birth. 😢

[@sophielegault2278]

Happy 149th birthday Lucy Maud Montgomery🎉🎉 November 30th 1874 - April 24th 1942

[@hudahussein7815]

I saw the animation when I was child it touched me alot I loved alot that I wished I lived there just like anne

[@lisachater8742]

Sounds like a wonderful, vibrantly alive woman who got gossiped about by people who wanted her to be Anne of Green Gables.

[@tinkerseeya754]

Very please to find this little treasure. I want to more. Take a bit of offence to the comment by the male suggesting that Lucy did not achieve greatness. Hello we are all fascinated by her work. I am completely transported by her writings.

[@anonb4632]

I never read Anne until last month. I was sold on it by another book which talked about characters in literature. So I decided to read it. It is not my usual genre at all, but I was very touched by it. December is the worst time of year for me and I felt I needed to read something more positive than I usually do. Anne is very endearing and funny. I had a close relative who was an "Anne with an 'e'" and she never let you forget it, so I can relate to that. :)

[@tracesprite6078]

He is quite right that Maud didn't achieve greatness. The Anne and other books are very cheerful and enjoyable to read but they don't go deeply into the characters of the people in them. Anne, in reality, would have been a somewhat narcissistic character, endlessly talking about herself and scarcely noticing those around her. Perhaps that is why Maud's husband lapsed into mental illness. He had the loneliness of being in a relationship with a very self-absorbed person who couldn't give more because she was so emotionally deprived in her early life. Maud had the opportunity to make a huge contribution by helping a mentally ill person. That's something very difficult to do - much more demanding and challenging than writing cheerful books. We all have tough times in our lives. At least Maud was supported in her writing by a publisher who kept encouraging readers to read her books, so her life had some satisfactions as well as difficulties.

[@marymary5494]

@@tracesprite6078 what did people label people before narcissist became the buzzword?

[@tracesprite6078]

@@marymary5494 Great point, Mary Mary. We do tend to fling that word "narcissist" around carelessly. However, it was only after reading Anne of Green Gables and watching several movies of it, that I realized that Anne was adorable and imaginative, yes, but also constantly talking about herself, her feelings, her points of view etc. I think it would have been lonely for Marilla and Gilbert and others who wanted to be her friend as she seldom focused on the needs of others.

[@tracesprite6078]

I loved the Netflix movie "Anne with an E" because it showed some of the background to the story. The passing reference in the book to Anne's time working for Mrs Thomas showed how people would take orphans from orphanages and in effect use them as slaves. That was really what Marilla and Matthew had planned to do - to get some unpaid labour for the price of providing food and clothes. The movie showed how awful the experience at Mrs Thomas place was, with Mrs Thomas being so very bad-tempered and sexually inappropriate things happening. Anne effectively became mentally ill over that time, talking to her own reflection because she was so desperately lonely. We get a picture of how awful life was for such orphans in the movie because there is a boy who works for Matthew instead of Anne doing that work and that boy never goes to school or learns to read or has the chance to use his imagination. Similarly when Gilbert Blythe goes on the boat work experience in the movie, we see how difficult it was for young men growing up in those times. It was tough for girls but even worse for young boys. It gives a different view of Anne's rejection of Gilbert when we get to see how difficult his life was. "Anne with an E" really filled in the story for me by drawing on details of what life was like then, especially for the poor and for orphans.

[@megreads9]

As I am an author and Lucy Maud Montgomery was the inspiration to me to start my path that I found after a long search in my life which will makes me more than happy. Our lives as authors are always unhappy and difficult ones and for these reasons we write, we transform the darkness into the hope, and the despair to a shiny one. No one knows what we as authors struggle through to write our novels, in every author spirit there's is wings of hope and escapism, we express our inner feelings through writing which is our eternal soul. All the authors of this lonely planet have a lot of secrets and in some way we reveal our secrets through writing. After all I am so happy that Lucy Maud Montgomery has opened the big gate of inspirations for us authors in this world to be seen and to published. By the way if you ask any author in this world what are the secrets behind your writing, they will not answer you, just look deeply in their eyes and you will find the answer. We as authors of this world have telepathy, did you hear or learned about it ? We live in a very strange way the same life experiences bad and good, and we share this telepathy with each other without knowing that we are really did and i will tell you what is the secret behind that : The spirit of writing ... Too simply isn't ? I always read authors biographies as much as I could and I did really conclude that we are really living the same spirit in our souls but in many different strange ways and that's why our writing is marvellous through the eyes of readers.

[@doreekaplan2589]

As a successful writer of short stories, at 76 I have never experienced one iota of your long diatribe. My life has been full of adventures, travel, interesting experiences, people to love and much time alone. Having a great sense of humor makes all the difference! Especially finding humor in myself, not ever taking me or anyone else seriously. The death of my Sister showed me all we have is NOW, as Buddha taught in another age another world. Living alone in Costa Rica for years, without knowing Spanish, I taught myself not to worry. Its easy. My teacher Wayne Dyer taught me so much to help keep me up and on the right life track. As well we get to choose thoughts with it being at all times happy, up, non stressed ...so I do.

[@megreads9]

@@doreekaplan2589 Long live for you for me I didn't and couldn't live my life as I want due to many reasons.

[@barontaylor7139]

Anne of Green Gables basically created the tourism industry on Prince Edward Island

[@LoideainTheScribe]

Oof, the jumping around in tense by the narrator is so jarring. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this documentary. Thanks for posting.

[@LouieNeira]

Kelli Lydon I thought I was the only one who noticed! Yes, very distracting. Still, a great documentary.

[@TrangPakbaby]

Goodness those movie Anne's before Megan were horrifically bad and irritating. Megan IS the only Anne Shirley :-)

[@anonb4632]

I've only read Anne for the first time recently and was not very familiar with it. Long story - not my usual genre etc, but surprisingly well written and I don't visualise the character as being anything like those portrayals. She is eleven when she first turns up in the book and those actresses look ten years older for one. She is also "smart as a whip" albeit innocent, and I don't really see that either.

[@seniorjuanito4297]

Lucy was the original Anne Shirley

[@anonb4632]

@@seniorjuanito4297 There are noticeable differences. She is a fictional character.

[@melpiell]

@Anon B y e s !! The books are far superior to these adaptions.. The written Anne is the original Anne

[@tracesprite6078]

I really loved the Netflix series "Anne with a E". It gave a lot of insight.

[@janetnewbill291]

How sad

[@moodyboobsjanna]

Love that they used Jackie B as L.M.'s voice

[@LynnE507]

!!! Thank you for your comment. I didn't know Aunt Hetty narrated this. :)

[@moodyboobsjanna]

@@LynnE507 lol I heard it right away. She has such a nice voice but the first time I heard her out of character I was surprised lol

[@anonb4632]

The audio is like a tinnitus simulation! Thanks for posting though.

[@vp8671]

omg yes

[@battywattywoo]

I wish Sullivan had made a film based on my favourite poem, A Pair of Slippers by LMM: with "Aunt Jo" as the sweet-smiled grandmother in old age; and either Wendy Lyon or Jennifer Inch as the character in her long-ago maidenhood.

[@susanzumback7711]

Anne therapy always always soothes

[@anonb4632]

Virginia Woolf was an even bigger mess... i don't think that's a valid comparison. She was also much more of a snob than Montgomery as far as I can tell. i can't stand Woolf to be honest and her comments on James Joyce shows her up.

[@elleh3495]

Virginia Woolf came from privilege and wealth and married into it as well. It is a sad testament to the strength of mental illness to think that someone who had every bit of time and resource to write or do whatever she wished, ended up where she did. If ever someone had the conditions to live her life in pursuit of creative endeavors it was Woolf. The man on here who says Maud did not dig deep enough and that she chose what she wrote is dismissive of how overwhelming her own depression and child trauma issues were and then compounded by the sick husband who I feel should have informed her of his illness before they were married, or else hid it from her. That type of illness is not sudden, that takes years to produce a man who is basically catatonic. Maud endured more pain than we can probably imagine. The fact that she wrote as much as she did, and as well kept her journals shows how important writing was. Maybe her greatest works were actually her journals.

[@imvale3301]

There is in italian?

[@shanenukwak819]

Yuri helps with this book being produced. 😅

[@battywattywoo]

Was LMM a fan of the cinema? What did she think of Mickey & Judy? (I haven't read the final volume of her journals.) Sadly, she died the year before Girl Crazy was released. (I was captivated by Girl Crazy when I saw it in 1992.)

[@bobdonda]

I couldn't answer that for certain, but it sounds as if she was somewhat knowledgeable about storytelling in movies. She wrote about the 1919 Anne movie, "It was a pretty little play well photographed, but I think if I hadn't already known it was from my book, that I would never had recognized it. The landscape and folks were 'New England', never P.E Island... A skunk and an American flag were introduced - both equally unknown in PE Island. I could have shrieked with rage over the latter."

[@emeraldfloyd5630]

This was interesting that show Russian doll brought me here, she supposedly haunts her home now.

[@doreekaplan2589]

She was lonely? Most children have friends in their neighbors and at school.