Lucy Maud Montgomery and Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island in 1874. She was raised by her grandparents in PEI, attending grade school in Cavendish, Prince of Wales College in Charlotte town, and in 1895-6 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She taught at various schools in PEI and worked in Halifax for newspapers. In 1908, while living in PEI she published her first book, Anne of Green Gables. She eventually married and moved to Ontario. Of her many works , Anne of Green Gables is probably the most well known.


Anne of Green Gables (100th anniversary!!)
-Series: 8 novels
-2 novels in which the character Anne plays a lesser part

Anne in the Media
-5 TV movies
-3 animated television series
-2 musicals

Tourism
-Setting: Green gables, haunted forest
-Musical
-Gifts and merchandise

Emily of New Moon

-Series: 3 Novels
-TV series

Road to Avonlea

-Aired between 1990 and 1996 in Canada and the United States.
-Took place in Avonlea, a fictional town in Prince Edward Island using characters and plots based out of books by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
-(Next series on CBC was Wind at My Back)

Avonlea Culture
- Family
oFamily content
oEqual focus on child and adult characters
oPart of many family traditions (Sunday night)
-Broad Canadian culture (popular in most provinces)