Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2017
- Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.[1]
The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site-namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.
Montgomery's work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide.[2]
The reason that I love her books is because of the beauty, the purity from everyday life.
My opinion of Lucy hasn't changed one bit after watching this. She's still awesome.
I don't care what her life was like... We all have our own stories.. Equally as dark light and every shade inbetween... I'm just grateful she wrote Anne of green gables... My ultimate favorite book to escape reality....
Thank you Lucy Maud Montgomery... RIP
You should read her other book series (short only three books) Emily of New Moon. It's kind of like Anne of Green Gables but darker. It's more autobiographical and about an orphan who endured a horrible childhood and a life filled with tragedies. It's written for an older audience than AOGG was but I think it's her best book. It really speaks to people who had a hard childhood or who have a hard life. Wonderful book I highly suggest it since you're such a fan of AOGG if you haven't read Emily of New Moon already. Here's a link to the free full book from project Gutenberg under this comment. And I actually connect with the author more because of her hard life and her struggles with mental illness. It makes her more real, more human. I don't think her struggles take away from her books at all in fact I think it adds another level to the books. No one is perfect and I don't think it's fair or realistic to expect ANYONE, no matter how much we love and admire their works, to be perfect.
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My grandmother was orphaned at 4 years old. This was one of her favourite stories. I remember watching the series with her when I was little. Now my own daughter is reading the books. And boy did she hate reading in school. Our Melody said this author has such a beautiful gift with descriptive writing. One of her favourite authors from the old classics for sure. A story that never looses it's magic of storytelling.
"I don't care what her life was like... I'm just grateful she wrote Anne of Green Gables... My ultimate favorite book to escape reality....". Here we have an answer to why so many need to have stories like "Anne of Green Gables". It looks that life on this planet is not a romantic story, there is drama after drama, trauma after trauma. Escape into a world of great imagination is the best remedy for all traumatic scenarios for souls. All missed Lightness of Being. REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE. Not a handful of clay or cosmic dust and gas. We are great sparkles of eternal LIFE, LIGHT, LOVE, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. Big hugs of Eternal Love to everybody.
I care what her life was like. No one should ever feel not wanted.
I can't help but feel a real deep sense of a entwined relation between fantasy / reality, with her own life to Anne. Anne character is laced with trauma but the shining empathic side... but in deep Trauma, comes trauma bonds of many issues, we can become slaves to our brokenness ... that can lead to reactive rebellion it is the underlying bitterness, disappointment, suppression that swells within... its a struggle between 2 worlds in your head. Sometimes it's the ones that have suffered pain the most feel the most..and you don't want others to go through it... its a artform to Find your empowerment through struggle... and to smile behind the tears, its the facade...a mask you wear well.
Wow, I would never have guessed all she went through. Thank you for sharing.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, because of her respect for children inspired Dr. Fred Rogers who was the host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
I clicked on this in my suggested feed. Our family lived on Prince Edward Island from 2012-2016, coming from Indiana, to work there on the Island. Oh my beautiful Island! Our 4th child was also born there in Charlottetown. Seeing some of those historical sites brings back memories of being there and visiting them each several times. I didn't know much of LMM's life though, so although this documentary is older, it was quite informative. And yes, my oh my, were we told how much her books were loved around the world and how many people from Asia made it their life long dream to visit this tiny little island of population 140,000K when we lived there. How the musical shown in Charlottetown was the longest running musical (we got to take a tour of behind the scenes AND we got to enjoy it as well). How they boxed up a whole set and cast and sent it over to Asia so it good be performed there I think the mid to late 1900's. Prince Edward Island is more than LMM, but she certainly put it on the map. So many tourists coming by boat loads on cruise ships year after year (until Covid hit). It made us glad when tourist season was over in a way and we could have the Island back to ourselves. Oh how I miss that place so much! We lived just a couple of streets over from UPEI and know a couple of the adjunct staff there and at the time, some of the students. If you like or love Anne, you have to try to get to Prince Edward Island. There are tons of great photos of all kinds of places there, but just being there and soaking it in, in whatever season, is magical. It is a magical place. I wish LMM had had a happier life, but sometimes, great things come out of the tragic life. I will have to remember this part of her story when thinking of our dear Island and those who have lived there for generations, all the MacDonalds and such, lol. PEI is the end of the road on the east coast (Nova Scotia, too), but it's one of my favorite places on the whole earth. It's a dream!
Why do you write LLM; when her initials are LMM?
@@meghanandharryfans thanks for catching that! I'm so so sorry, I probably was tired when I wrote that comment. I typically watch videos late at night or in between doing things for our kids when I'm homeschooling. It was totally a typing error. thank you! I will fix it!
@@melindajohnson9726 : At first I thought I was the one that was making a mistake after all I have never been to PEI; my sister brought her son and husband there since they have a home in New Brunswick, so I have pictures of their visit; but then as I watch the video, Meghan Follows used the initials LMM when referring to the author, so I got the confirmation that I was not wrong; I was just confused. Thank you though for responding to me, and clarifying things. Nice to read about your experiences around Green Gables. In the news, I saw lots of Japanese tour Green Gables, as a Canadian, I am so proud of LMM's work. I have watched Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Road to Avonlea. I have also downloaded her other stories from Apple Book Store, but have not read them. Someday I will get around to it. I've started reading the book on Anne of Green Gables, it is written in an older English style than what I am used to, so I wonder how closely the TV series and movies of Anne of Green Gables are to the actual written series. Like I said, I will get around to that someday. I have been very busy.
Really good writers virtually always write best, that which they know well!
Writers introspection is usually deeper than what the rest of us have/use! Also, writers ego's
are almost ALWAYS bigger as well! That can be a ~two-edged~ sword,, as many writers testify to!
The human condition, however, levels the playing field for everyone! Throughout this docu-drama, the emotionally written, but factual script reminds us of life's realities, which aren't always pleasant .. sparing none. "When life gives u lemons, make lemonade" 😊
I wish LMM had lived at least one more year: she could then have seen Girl Crazy, the Mickey-and-Judy musical I loved so much when I was 18.
If I could have dinner with 2 famous people resurrected from the dead, I'd pick Lucy Maud (Montgomery) and Mabel Lucie (Attwell): the meeting could result in an adorably-illustrated edition of Anne of Green Gables.
I saw this programme when I was on holiday in Toronto, in 1997.
Thanks for posting
Thank you very much.
Enjoyed.
Shared with my friends.
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I don't consider Lucy Maud a victim .. she was a survivor! Read her diaries. They are an amazing insight into her many strengths, and her many talents. She struggled with much, yet carried on admirably with the hand she was dealt.I would say she did amazingly well at "LIFE." Strong muti-faceted woman! I applaud her life!
Whoever that man is, he is so judgmental. She didn't owe him, or any of us, anything.
Edit: Don Hanna, a writer.
Anne of Green Gables was a gift to us all, whether he appreciates it or believes it is of sufficient value, or not.
I completely agree with you. She poured a lot of herself and her pain of feeling like an unwanted orphaned into her writing. That's what gives Anne's character such strength and relatability. I think he does come from a place of judgment and he's really not able to understand the various barriers that other commentators referenced such as the gender barrier and the barriers associated with being a minister's wife. As the wife of a minister, she essentially lived in a fishbowl and so she would have had to have actively worked to keep up the image not only for the sake of her husband keeping his job but her own desire of wanting to have a position in the community. She was supplementing his income so there was a motivation to continue with this genre that she had obtained such success from previously. I think she also had the motivation as a mother to give her children a much better life than what she had experienced growing up. I got the impression from her journal entries and having read the complete versions now that they have been released, that she was so much more of a complex person then what was previously understood about her even when this documentary aired. It seems to me that over the years, she was really worn down from keeping everything afloat and facing her own mental illness. Mental illness is still stigmatized in our society today but back then, there was really no treatment and the cost to a person's reputation could be irreversible. I think she may have wanted to touch on those darker areas of herself with greater authenticity in her writing but there were probably a lot of overwhelming external circumstances including her family's situation and societal attitudes that prevented her from digging deeper and maybe her own fear. But she remained true to herself and very authentic in her journals so it was not a cop out. I think that it just did not make it into prose form because of other circumstances, not the least reason being that she was just trying to survive. There are a lot of other great writers who have struggled with mental illness and even suicide because of some very deep complexity there. I think it sounds very consumer like to judge her contributions in light of her life and to expect more based upon our wishes or standards instead of having a sense of appreciation for her inviting us into her world at all.
Wow! Thank you for posting
Canada sure did miss out on this gem.
I love this movie, but I have to get the books
Thank you What else would you like to watch?
There 30 dollars for the whole set or get them 5 dollars a piece
I mean book
You can read them online for free (legally, the copyright has expired). The only ones you can't are Anne of Ingliside and Anne of Windy Poplars.
@@iComposeca I'd like to see a documentary on the famous 1800's model and poet Elizabeth Siddall. She killed herself of an opium overdose after her husband's constant cheating had destroyed her.
What else could she really have published as a ministers wife? Very interesting lady. Anne is a wonderful character.
Why didn't they mention the suicide note?
I think this documentary came out before her estate released the suicide note in 2010. I may be wrong but I don't see why or how they could leave out such an important fact had they known about it. Or perhaps since she's one of few internationally famous authors from Canada they tried to idealize her death as much as possible by sweeping her suicide note under the rug.
I think she used her story on how she would of liked her life to be. She literally is Anne. She may not of been an actual orphan but she felt that way after her mother died and her father left her with her grandparents. I think Marilla and Matthew might of been her grandparents and how she would have liked them to be. I truly feel she was Anne just in a different light.
I mistakenly left a comment on a following video after this, but i guess it is all right... i just want to say Ms.Maud wasn't so bad in her own way.... if she couldn't even be honest with her own self in her own journal, it would be the most extreme misery of all..... life is not great, especially as adult, so much about calculations, misconceptions, and that saving face of reputation, status, position.. and it is a great sadness if you can see it all, know it all and not appreciating it at all, i guess i should say almost all, or quite all, and that, is the outcome of being extremely sensitive... so, in a way, life is fair somewhat...
Is this Jackie Borroughs doing the voice overs?
36:52 'Today I wrote the last chapter of 'Rilla of Ingleside'. It is the last of the 'Anne' books. I am done with Anne forever. I swear it as a dark and deadly vow'. Yet she wrote another 2 Anne's books - in 1936 and in 1939. Partially - her publisher convinced her but also - she needed money.
Hi! I’m re-ready the entire series as an adult. The two other Anne books have something lacking in them. Her heart wasn’t broken n it. Now I understand why. I’m s worth re-reading the series.
IWont to read the book
Is this a true story? What years it happened?
Yes it's a true story of the author who wrote Anne of Green Gables. The author was born in 1874 and died in 1940's. So this documentary takes place between these dates.
Poe is exclaiming..." You too?"
She had a good life ,apart from the husband
Another point about about Mrs. Montgomery and her novels and her attitude,, is partly due to the time she lived in. It was a time of change for women, more than anyone else! Only 12 years after she began her Green Gables trilogy, women were given the right to vote~!~
Emancipation for women had that ~two-edged sword~effect,, and like any change(s) some terrible ones were in the bundle~!~ Women began to lose their way, morally speaking,, and immorality crept into women's lives, and families began to suffer not just from divorce rates climbing, but from increases in venereal diseases which brought about very painful emotional for not just the women,, but the entire family!
Then, not much later came ~prohibition~ ! They didn't call that period .... The Roaring 20's for nothing~!~ So considering what many, many women were getting involved in back then,, Maud Montgomery dodged the bullet .... if you ask me~!~
Depressing, flogging opening. Your personal opines as to what her inner happiness was, wasn't needed.