![]() ![]() In particular, the curators looked at important editions of the novel and the original manuscript of the book, Montgomery’s journals and scrapbooks, and her photograph collection. Materials selected for the exhibit were drawn primarily from the library’s extensive Lucy Maud Montgomery Collection. ![]() Mary (the community in which they live) and reported in the “Glen Notes” column of the local newspaper to foreign affairs reported in the “War Notes” column. It depicts life in a small Canadian community in Prince Edward Island during the War and focuses on the Blythe family, which includes Anne and her husband Gilbert, and their children, Rilla, Walter, Jem, and Shirley.Īs the novel is framed by newspaper accounts of local events and the war, we decided to call the exhibit “From Glen Notes to War Notes” to reflect the transition in interest by Susan Baker, the Blythe family’s housekeeper, from the local affairs of Glen St. The story begins just before the start of the First World War and follows the war to its end. Montgomery’s tenth novel and the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Montgomery’s creative process in writing Rilla of Ingleside. Topics include: (1) lost youth, (2) the home front, (3) the battle front, (4) war poets, (5) pacifism, and (6) L.M. Each section of the exhibit is curated to show the perspective of characters from the book-Rilla, Walter, Anne, Susan, Jem, Shirley, and Whiskers-on-the-Moon. Montgomery’s novel, Rilla of Ingleside against its First World War backdrop. ![]()
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