In her biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings, Montgomery scholar Mary Henley Rubio writes that the author was in great psychological pain in her final days and had developed a dependency on barbiturates. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it." A section of it said: "May God forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive me even if they cannot understand. Stuart Macdonald, found a piece of paper on her bedside table. Her husband also suffered from depression throughout their marriage.Ĥ9. Montgomery suffered from depression throughout her life. Macdonald Butler said she decided to share the family secret to help reduce the stigma on mental health issues.
On the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery's granddaughter Kate Macdonald Butler wrote an essay in the Globe and Mail revealing that Montgomery's family believed that she had died by suicide.Ĥ8. The first Anne of Green Gables translation was into Swedish. Maud saw her reflection in the bookcase's glass doors - the left reflection was named Katie Maurice and the right was Lucy Gray.²Īctress Katie Kerr portrayed Anne in the 2014 musical staged at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. Montgomery had two imaginary friends growing up, who lived in a "fairy room" behind a bookcase in her grandparents' sitting room. So I wanted to write a story about it."²ġ4. The Blue Castle is set in Ontario, specifically Muskoka: "Muskoka is the only place I've ever been in that it could be my Island's rival in my heart. Nineteen of Montgomery's 20 novels are set in P.E.I. Why was Mother so still? And why was Father crying? I reached down and laid my baby hand against Mother's cheek."¹ġ3. Montgomery once wrote that her earliest memory was seeing her mother in her coffin: "I did not feel any sorrow, for I knew nothing of what it all meant. Montgomery's mother died of tuberculosis when she was nearly two, and her father would later move to Saskatchewan and remarry.ġ2. The photo was published in the magazine Everywoman's World. Pictured above is Montgomery's home in Cavendish, P.E.I.
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