Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

1 Leaskdale: L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley

A New Home in Leaskdale: War and Religion

2 “To the Memory of”: Leaskdale and Loss in the Great War

3 “Being a Christian” and a Presbyterian in Leaskdale

The Changing World of Women: Mother, Daughter, Friend

4 “A Gift for Friendship”: Revolutionary Friendship in Anne of the Island and The Blue Castle

5 The New Mother at Home: Montgomery’s Literary Explorations of Motherhood

Shadows in Rainbow Valley: Loss and Grief

6 The Shadow on the House of Dreams: Montgomery’s Re-Visioning of Anne

7 “My Pen Shall Heal, Not Hurt”: Writing as Therapy in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted

Interlude

L.M.M.

A Sense of Place: Reading and Writing

8 Old Years and Old Books: Montgomery’s Ontario Reading and Self-Fashioning

9 (Re)Locating Montgomery: Prince Edward Island Romance to Southern Ontario Gothic

Travels to Muskoka: Commodification and Tourism

10 Propriety and the Proprietary: The Commodification of Health and Nature in The Blue Castle

11 Bala and The Blue Castle: The “Spirit of Muskoka” and the Tourist Gaze

Life in Toronto: Professional and Cultural Links

12 Advocating for Authors and Battling Critics in Toronto: Montgomery and the Canadian Authors Association

13 Toronto’s Cultural Scene: Tonic or Toxin for a Sagged Soul?

Epilogue

14 Dear Grandmother Maud on the Road to Heaven

Appendix

Montgomery’s Ontario Legacies: A Community Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

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