lucy maud montgomery anne of green gables

The following year (1893-1894), she studied for a teacher's license at Prince of Wales College, completing the two-year course in one year and graduating with honours.ĭuring her brief teaching career, Montgomery taught at three Island schools: Bideford, Belmont, and Lower Bedeque respectively. In September of 1891, she returned to Cavendish, too late to go to school that year, but she completed grade ten in 1892-1893. While in Prince Albert, she achieved her first publication - a poem entitled 'On Cape LeForce' published by a Prince Edward Island newspaper, The Patriot. She completed her early education there, with the exception of one year (1890-1891) which she spent in Prince Albert with her father and his wife, Mary Anne McRae. She loved her Cavendish home and Silver Bush (as the Campbell farm was called) in Park Corner.Īt the age of six, she began attending the one-room school near her grandparents' home in Cavendish. There she spent many happy days, playing with her cousins and visiting her paternal grandfather, Senator Donald Montgomery, who lived close to the Campbells. She also spent time with her Uncle John and Aunt Annie Campbell (her mother's sister), and their family in Park Corner. When she was nine, she began writing poetry and keeping a journal. Her father left her in the care of her mother's parents, Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneill of Cavendish, and moved to western Canada, where he eventually settled in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and remarried.Īs an only child living with an elderly couple, Montgomery found companionship in her imagination, nature, books, and writing. When Montgomery was 21 months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, on November 30, 1874, to Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill.

Lucy maud montgomery anne of green gables