![]() Montgomery went on to publish twenty novels – including seven more as part of the Anne of Green Gables series – as well as around 500 short stories and poems. Now considered a classic of children's literature, the novel has now sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into twenty languages. In 1908, Montgomery published her most famous work: Anne of Green Gables. She worked long hours, often only finding the time and energy to do her own writing in the early mornings before work. Three years later, Montgomery took a position with the Halifax Chronicle’s evening edition, Daily Echo, as proof reader and writer. Four years later, she became a teacher, and in 1895 sold her first short story for five dollars. In 1889, at the age of fifteen, Montgomery had a poem published in the newspaper, the Patriot. A voracious reader, as a girl, Montgomery became enthralled by Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678) and Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers (1836) Her upbringing was both idyllic and devoutly religious, and from the age of six she attended the Cavendish Schoolhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1874. ![]()
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