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Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, ( November 30 , 1874 – April 24 , 1942 ) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with '' Anne Of Green Gables ''. BIOGRAPHY Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island (now known as New London, Prince Edward Island ). Her mother, Clara Woolner Macneill Montgomery , died when she was two years old and her father, Hugh John Montgomery , left Prince Edward Island after his wife’s death and eventually settled in the western territories of Canada. She went to live with her maternal grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolner Macneill in the nearby community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island . She left in 1890 to live in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother. After one year she returned to Prince Edward Island and the home of her grandparents. Following the completion of her grade school education in Cavendish, she attended Prince Of Wales College in Charlottetown from ( 1893 to 1894 ) to get a teaching certificate. (She completed two years of courses in one year). In 1895-1896 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia . After working as a teacher in various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish in 1898 to live with her grandmother, following the death of her grandfather. For a short time in 1901 and 1902 she worked in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the newspapers ''Chronicle'' and ''Echo''. She returned to live with and care for her grandmother in 1902. She was inspired to write her first books during this time on Prince Edward Island. In 1911 , shortly after her grandmother's death, she married the Rev. Ewan Macdonald ( 1870 - 1943 ), a Presbyterian Minister , and moved to Ontario where he had taken the position of minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale in present-day Uxbridge Township , that was also affiliated with the former (closed 1968) Presbyterian congregation in nearby Zephyr . She wrote her next eleven books from the Manse at Leaskdale, Ontario. The Manse was sold by the congregation and is now the ''Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum''. The family, with two surviving children, Chester Cameron Macdonald ( 1912 - 1964 ), and (Ewan) Stuart Macdonald ( 1915 - 1982 ) (Hugh Alexander died at birth in 1914 ), moved in 1926 to the Norval Presbyterian Charge , in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario , where a ''Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden'' can be seen from Highway 7 . She died in Toronto in 1942 , and was buried at the Cavendish Community Cemetery in her beloved Cavendish, Prince Edward Island . Her major collections are archived at the University Of Guelph , while the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute at the University Of Prince Edward Island coordinates most of the research and conferences surrounding her work. Her complete journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, have recently been published by the Oxford University Press . As the British writer Tony Barrell has pointed out (London Sunday Times , November 27, 2005), Montgomery was born on exactly the same day as Sir Winston Churchill , the celebrated British prime minister of the second world war. NOVELS
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