Biography Lucy Mod

Lucy Modgomery Name of the Canadian writer Lucy Modgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery is almost unknown to the Russian reader, and meanwhile, her works have been enormous for many years in all English -speaking and many other countries - they are almost annually published in millions of circulations in the US Languages, on their basis, theatrical productions and films were created, and the town of Cavendish on the island of Prince Edward, where she was born, lived, created and was buried and where her books take place, became one of the attractions of Canada and the place of pilgrimage of numerous tourists.

From G. Montgomery, engaged in the study of her work. The future writer was born on November 30. She was not yet two years old when her mother died of tuberculosis. The father left the girl in the care of her grandparents - the parents of her mother, who lived in Cavendish - and he moved to the province of Saskachevan, where he married a second time. From the age of six, she attended an ordinary rural school, and from nine she began to keep a diary and tried to write poetry and stories.

For the first time, her poem was published in the Patriot newspaper in the city of Montgomery, having graduated from the college of Prince of Wales in Charlotte, she received a teacher's license. In the following years, she taught in different schools of her native province, and for one year she visited the university in Galifax. All these years she wrote a lot: verses, series, series that she published in Canadian, American and British magazines.

After the death of her grandfather in the city there, she spent the next 14 years with a short break of 10 months in the GG. Evan was not her first love; Prior to this, in her life there was an unsuccessful engagement with a distant relative Edwin Simpson and a short, but hot romantic hobby to a friend Herman Lerd. Shortly after the wedding, the young spouses moved to Liskdale Ontario Province, where Evan was a priest.

There they lived before G. their three Son Chester, Hugh Statorno, and Stewart Lucy Mod helped her husband in his pastoral activity, engaged in farming, she prepared very well, loved needlework, was fond of gardening, photographed, conducted extensive correspondence with friends and wrote a lot. She returned to the island of Prince Edward only for a short while, in the summer months.

The story “Anya from the Green Mesonins”, which was based on the children's impressions of the writer, was written in G. only in the city of the success of the book was immediate and unheard of. Mark Twain called the red -haired heroine Montgomery "the most touching and charming child of fiction since the time of immortal Alice." After the first book, the writer received thousands of letters with a request to continue the history of Ani.

And then the following works appeared, telling about the fate of ani-teenage, a girl and, finally, an adult woman “Anya from Avonleya”, “Anya from the island of Prince Edward”, “Anya from the noise of the dream”, “Anya from Ingleside”, and other storylines of the Avonlei and her inhabitants “Avonlaya Chronicles ”and others soon appeared about other girls: Jane from a lighthouse, Kilmens from a fruit garden, Emily from the young month according to the researchers of her work, the most autobiographical of the books of Montgomery, Pat from silver thickets, etc.

In total, during her life, Montgomery published 20 novels, action 19 of them takes place on the island of Prince Edward, near short stories and near poems in newspapers and magazines, 2 collections of stories, one volume of poetry, 3 short biographical essays in the series “Bold Women”, as well as many articles on different topics. She also left invaluable material in the researchers of her work and the history of Canada in the form of her diaries, in which, in addition to her own records, you can find personal memorable things, newspaper clippings, photographs.

Montgomery of the first of Canadian women received membership in the Royal Society of the Humanities in the UK, and in the city of Montgomery was declared in Canada a “personality of national historical significance”. Lucy Mod Montgomery died on April 24, her husband survived it for a short while - he died in November G. Creativity and biography of L. Montgomery became the subject of many books, articles, research.

If the criteria of children's literature were originally applied to her works, then in the past twenty years, in connection with the development of the feminist direction in literary criticism, researchers have been interested in the inherent in her creativity in a deep approach to issues of the formation of a woman and analyzing it, applying the standards of “literature for adults”, and not “children's classics”.

The story of the entry of a girl or girl into a world, where the role of a woman is largely determined by patriarchal traditions, acquires a deeper meaning, becoming a story about the struggle of a woman of a creative warehouse for spiritual survival.Although these books are primarily addressed to young readers, adults will read them with interest and pleasure, because it is original, talented and with humor written works that breathe vital truth and kindness and leave a bright feeling in the reader’s soul.

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