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category: Travel
published: May 2001
ISBN:9780887805134
publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited

Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places

by Deirdre Kessler, photographs by Caird, Martin

tagged: literary
Description

The landscape of Prince Edward Island set Lucy Maud Montgomery's imagination on fire. This book explores the places where she grew up and discovers the settings of her most famous works of fiction.
Green Gables, once the home of Montgomery's relatives, is now furnished and decorated based on descriptions in her most famous novel. Nearby is the author's childhood home--her grandparents' farm--and at New London, her lovingly preserved birthplace. At Park Corner, visitors can enjoy one of her favourite places--Silver Bush, the home of her Campbell cousins.
This book offers beautiful contemporary photographs and historical images of the sites. Author Deirdre Kessler provides detailed background on these places, putting them in the context of rural life on Prince Edward Island a century ago.

About the Authors
Deirdre Kessler is a former Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island and author of over two dozen books for children and adults. Her novel Darwin's Hornpipe will be published by Penumbra Press in 2023. She worked closely with the creators of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI; she was project director of the multi-award-winning CD-ROM: The Bend in the Road: The Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery; and she wrote the epilogue in L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Deirdre is a full-time writer and a sessional professor with the UPEI English Department. Find her online at DeirdreKessler.com.

Photographer MARTIN CAIRD is the proprietor of Sandpiper Studios in Hunter River, Prince Edward Island.
Editorial Review

"It is a beautiful souvenir piece for anyone who has ever cherished a visit to these haunts or has yearned to make such a pilgimage...Recommended."

— Canadian Review of Materials

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