The complete Journals of L.M.Montgomery The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

The complete Journals of L.M.Montgomery The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston is a real beautiful jewel if you love and appreciate the writer of Anne of Green Gables.

Mrs.Montgomery was 15 years old when she started to write this journal. The version is unabridged.
Mrs. Montgomery confessed she burned other journals written before. Why? Just in case they would have been important one day, she didn't want to leave at the posterity anything weird, or strange or too sad.

Montgomery was a very special soul. Fresh, cleaned, radiant as I say often and a dreaming, sincere girl. She loved to write in this journal what she thought without any kind of special filter and sometimes reporting dialogues between people as well.
Mrs Montgomery loves to tell everything about her reality.
Her friendship, her school, Bible Study, people she likes and friends she wouldn't want to be friends with, school, feelings.

An example? Her joy to be reunited with her dad and the conflictual relationship with her step-mother analyzed with sufferance and simplicity, with sincerity and without any kind of mask. Mrs. Maud reported exactly her feelings. She didn't like certain people and she said it.
She was a candid soul.
Once Mrs Maud told that she was published in a poetry journal and happily she let see to her parents when she spent her time with them the letter she received from the magazine, but her step-mother said nothing to her and she suffered a lot. She also confessed that her step-mother read all the stuff she wrote and she was worried for this journal.

In this journal, you will discover a fresh like also a conflictual girl. In an entry she said sometimes she would have been different from the person she was.

Mrs Montgomery loved to put in her journals imagines of people she loved the most, of her reality, of nature and countryside she was so affectionate at so badly.
It will be like to enter to me in the parallel world of Anne of Green Gables, and you will feel when you will finish to read this journal that you know all the protagonists of this journal and all Mrs.Montgomery's world, like also her essence.

Mrs.Montgomery lived a life of conflicts, but the most beautiful aspect of this girl and later lady was this one: the ability thanks also to her rich interior world of create a beautiful world projected outside for keeping all the people she knew happy around her, because Mrs Montgomery donated happiness to the other ones thanks to her vision of life, dreaming and beauty.

Maybe she hasn't never found a complete peace, but this girl was joyous, plenty of life, and happy to be alive, true, and a true future-believer.

Plus: thanks to her books of Anne of Green Gables plenty of great and healthy values it was possible to see a stunning world, intimate and profound, joyous, plenty of poetry in grade to change in better the souls of people.

You can think of presenting this book to your daughter, or someone in grade to appreciate sincerity, a frank life, good sentiments and a vision of life connected with simple things and at the same time the biggest ones of this life.

For estimators of Anne of Green Gables another reason for understand much better the author. These kind of books should be promoted also because they contain great messages to everyone.
First of all the one of being true people.


I surely thank so much Oxford University Press for the stunning physical copy of this book!



Anna Maria Polidori