Lucy Montgomery Research Paper

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - her pseudonym L.M. Montgomery - first published “Anne of Green Gables” in 1908, and it immediately gained tremendous success. Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1847. She faced numerous hardships throughout her lifetime, one of which being that her mother died of tuberculosis when Lucy was just 21 months old; which, in turn, caused her father to place her into her maternal grandparent’s care. She eventually prospered, the publication of “Anne of Green Gables” brought her great success, with it translated into 36 different languages and more than 50 million copies sold worldwide. “Anne of Green Gables” follows the story of the young orphan Anne Shirley, who was mistakenly adopted by brother

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