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Writing a Life by Elizabeth Waterston, Mary Rubio (1995, Paperback) 
Writing a Life by Elizabeth Waterston, Mary Rubio (1995, Paperback)
Publisher: E C W Pr
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Series: Canadian Biography Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1550222201
ISBN-13: 9781550222203
Product ID: EPID324481
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Publication Date:1995-02-01
Series:Canadian Biography Series

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Length:133 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born with the storyteller's gift. Throughout her life she would use this talent to tangle and reinforce the intersecting threads of her experience: her Scots heritage, her early years in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island, her teacher training at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, her unhappy marriage to a Presbyterian minister, and her powerful, tormenting ambition. With the creation of Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery quickly became Canada's most enduring and celebrated author. Yet this biography presents the Montgomery legend with a darker cast. Rubio and Waterston reveal Montgomery to be a subversive writer, who interjected messages of resistance into her superficially pleasant stories. The authors pay attention to Montgomery's private journals, which pulse with open resentment at the structures of daily life that caught her ambition in cobwebs. Trapped in her marriage, confined by motherhood, and bound by the need to present a smiling face of domestic and feminine amiability in accord with the romantic tales she was producing, Montgomery's journals testify to her struggles with emotional depression and her self-destructive dependence on her increasing popularity. Before long, she became caught by her very facility in creating narratives, unconsciously adapting her life to suit her writerly needs.

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