“I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything in the world that is born of true love has life in it.”
Few people have done more to introduce Canada and our way of life to the world than Lucy Maud Montgomery, the writer of Anne of Green Gables. People from around the world flock to Montgomery’s birth place, the Anne of Green Gables house, in the province of Prince Edward Island. The book was drawn from Montgomery’s own lonely childhood and strict upbringing after her mother died and her father turned her over to her grandparents. Montgomery became a teacher and a successful author. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and several other television movies and programs, including the Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.
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