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Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places
The landscape of Prince Edward Island set Lucy Maud Montgomery's imagination on fire. This book explores the places where she grew up and discovers the settings of her most famous works of fiction.
Green Gables, once the home of Montgomery's relatives, is now furnished and decorated based on descriptions in her most famous novel. Nearby is the author's childhood home--her grandparents' farm--and at New London, her lovingly preserved birthplace. At Park Corner, visitors can enjoy one of her favourite places--Silver Bush, the home of her Campbell cousins.
This book offers beautiful contemporary photographs and historical images of the sites. Author Deirdre Kessler provides detailed background on these places, putting them in the context of rural life on Prince Edward Island a century ago.
Green Gables, once the home of Montgomery's relatives, is now furnished and decorated based on descriptions in her most famous novel. Nearby is the author's childhood home--her grandparents' farm--and at New London, her lovingly preserved birthplace. At Park Corner, visitors can enjoy one of her favourite places--Silver Bush, the home of her Campbell cousins.
This book offers beautiful contemporary photographs and historical images of the sites. Author Deirdre Kessler provides detailed background on these places, putting them in the context of rural life on Prince Edward Island a century ago.
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72 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2001
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Deirdre Kessler
25 books4 followersAuthor of fiction, poetry, children's books, and teacher at the University of Prince Edward Island.
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December 23, 2025
Yes, Martin Caird's colour photography for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places (of Prince Edward Island landscapes and also of buildings, furniture, clothing etc. which Lucy Maud Montgomery actually used thematically and contents wise in her novels and short stories, as well as black and white historical snapshots and family portraits), these are indeed aesthetically delightful (and with me also finding that the images in Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places of for example L.M. Montgomery's wedding outfit, of her cat and her typewriter, of Maud's letters/books and the already alluded to family portraits are not only of visual personal interest to and for me but that they also give not just an authentic portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life but also of her writing and of Prince Edward Island both now and then (and which does actually not really surprise me all that much either, since in my humble opinion, one of the best and most textually rewarding aspects of L.M. Montgomery's fiction is her realistic and historically totally and enchantingly authentic sense of time and place regarding especially PEI, but well, it sure has been visually lovely to view Martin Caird's photographs for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places and aesthetically acknowledge that they indeed wonderfully mirror Montgomery's own words when she in and with her fiction describes Prince Edward Island and where Maud's Anne Shirley, where her Emily Byrd Starr, her Sara Stanley, her Patricia Gardiner etc. characters live, find love and flourish).
However, although the photography (both Martin Caird's colour images and equally so the black and white historical snapshots) for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places are solidly five stars for me, as to Deirdre Kessler's presented text, sorry, but I do unfortunately find Kessler's words and her entire textual flow in Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places woefully dry and reading like a very run-of-the-mill and flat travelogue and as such at least for me personally not really a celebration of and an homage to Lucy Maud Montgomery, not horrible, nothing in any way problematic or textually questionable in any way of course, but simply that Deirdre Kessler's narrative style (as well as the rather mundane and on the surface contents) for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places not only makes me rather hugely and continuously yawn and thus also makes me feel pretty well bored, but indeed, that Kessler's text also seems to rather drag down Martin Caird's photographic genius as well (and so much so that while I have certainly spent more than a bit of quality time looking at and enjoying the photographs of Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places, I have mostly just been very cursively and impatiently skimming over what is textually being provided and to honestly say that I personally would definitely much prefer Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places with SOLELY the photography being featured, as a quasi wordless tome, as Deirdre Kessler's words really do pretty well nothing for me and just drag on me, just cannot even somewhat, even remotely retain actual and bona fide reading interest).
However, although the photography (both Martin Caird's colour images and equally so the black and white historical snapshots) for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places are solidly five stars for me, as to Deirdre Kessler's presented text, sorry, but I do unfortunately find Kessler's words and her entire textual flow in Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places woefully dry and reading like a very run-of-the-mill and flat travelogue and as such at least for me personally not really a celebration of and an homage to Lucy Maud Montgomery, not horrible, nothing in any way problematic or textually questionable in any way of course, but simply that Deirdre Kessler's narrative style (as well as the rather mundane and on the surface contents) for Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places not only makes me rather hugely and continuously yawn and thus also makes me feel pretty well bored, but indeed, that Kessler's text also seems to rather drag down Martin Caird's photographic genius as well (and so much so that while I have certainly spent more than a bit of quality time looking at and enjoying the photographs of Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places, I have mostly just been very cursively and impatiently skimming over what is textually being provided and to honestly say that I personally would definitely much prefer Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places with SOLELY the photography being featured, as a quasi wordless tome, as Deirdre Kessler's words really do pretty well nothing for me and just drag on me, just cannot even somewhat, even remotely retain actual and bona fide reading interest).
July 24, 2025
Nice guidebook with photos and text to help you understand the various places associated with LMM available to visit on PEI.
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