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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Novelist · 1874-1942

Wrote Anne of Green Gables in a Cavendish farmhouse; it has never been out of print.

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Life story

1. November 30, 1874 · New London, Prince Edward Island
   Born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island
2. 1876 · Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
   Raised by her grandparents at Cavendish after her mother's death
3. June 1908 · Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
   Published Anne of Green Gables after five rejections
4. 1911 · Leaskdale, Ontario
   Married and moved to Ontario, where she wrote twenty more books
5. April 24, 1942 · Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
   Died in Toronto; buried at Cavendish

Sources

• Wikipedia article: Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Encyclopedia