![]() ![]() I am interested in the decision made by Montgomery to produce another Anne story during the Great War. There’s a focus on the context surrounding our author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. In looking at a book published during the war that’s content has nothing to do with the war opens the path for where to look and what to follow to connect this book to children’s books and war. Montgomery was not talking about Anne’s House of Dreams, but this quote sums up her thoughts on writing about her red-headed creation, Anne Shirley. For she belongs in the green untroubled pastures and still waters of the world before the war.” (Tector 72). It is to be another ‘Anne’ story – and I fervently hope the last – dealing with her sons and daughters during the years of war. On March 11, 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal, “I began work on my tenth novel today. Original cover art of Anne’s House of Dreams. ©Copyright 2014 Amy Driedger, Ryerson University. ![]()
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