Lucy Maud Montgomery 19th century Canada Anne of Green Gables #history #shorts

“LM Montgomery, (…) the first book, Anne of Green Gables, was rejected by four or five publishers (the exact number depends on which version of the story you read) before being published with a great success by LC Page & Company in 1908. While the success of Anne of Green Gables and its successors certainly opened many doors for her, she continued to encounter rejection throughout her career. She reported in her journal that her poem "I Wish You" was rejected twenty-three times before being published in Good Housekeeping in January 1936. This poem reappeared in The Blythes Are Quoted, which included several short stories that Montgomery had attempted without success. publishing in magazines before reworking them for his latest book.

“In 1908, Montgomery published her first book, Anne of Green Gables. An immediate success, it established Montgomery's career and she wrote and published material, including many Anne sequels, for the rest of her life. Anne of Green Gables was published in June 1908, and by November 1909 it had gone through six printings.[34] The Canadian press made much of Montgomery's roots in Prince Edward Island, which was described as a charming part of Canada where people retained old-fashioned values and everything moved at a much slower pace.[ 35] The American press suggested that all of Canada was backward and slow, arguing that a book like Anne of Green Gables was only possible in a rustic country like Canada, where people were far from be as advanced as in the United States.

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