Lucy Maud Montgomery Archive

Domesticity and Anne of Green Gables

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When Anne mellows into a gracious mother and wife, smiling gently in the background, her hair easily tamed, what comes next is inevitable. By the final book, Anne shrinks to near invisibility, cut from the title of her own story.

Round-Up: Court-Mandated Reading, Lyons Press, and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

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From an unusual court sentence to Anne of Green Gables, here’s the latest literary news.

Looking for Anne of Green Gables in Prince Edward Island

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In June of 2008, I took an “Anne-tastic” tour, as one website put it, of Prince Edward Island, home of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. This summer, on another June day, I head back to PEI.

A Victorian Legacy in the Midwest: Hair in Art and Literature

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Leila’s Hair Museum occupies an unassuming building in Independence, MO along a busy street of strip malls. I sought it out last summer on a visit to the Midwest, intrigued by its website. According to it, Leila Cahoon, a retired hairdresser who has made collecting hair art her life’s