Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of “Anne of Green Gables,” lived in this house for fifteen years and wrote eleven of her twenty-two novels here, including “Anne of the Island” (1915) and “Anne’s House of Dreams” (1916). Born in 1874 at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, she was educated at Charlottetown and Halifax. From 1898 to 1911 she lived at Cavendish, P.E.I., where she began her career as a novelist. In 1911 she married the Rev. Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian minister, and came with him to Leaskdale. They moved in 1926 to Norval, and nine years later to Toronto, where she died in 1942. Mrs. Macdonald was awarded the O. B. E. by King George V in 1935.

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