Like the setting in many of her books Lucy Maud Mongemery was born on Prince Edward Island. She was born in 1874, on November 30th in Clifton (Now New London), Prince Edward Island. Before Montgomery was 2 years old her mother died of tuberculosis and her father handed over custody to her maternal grandparents. Her grandparents raised her in a strict and unforgiving manner. Montgomery was a lonely girl, even though she had relations nearby she spent most of her time alone with imaginary friends to cope with the lonliness. After her first work was published in the Charlottetown paper, in November of 1890, she returned home to Prince Edward Island to live with her father. Her life there wasn't happy since she did not get along with her stepmother and her father's marriage was unhappy. After she completed grade school Montgomery went on to earn her teaching license at Prince of Wales Collage completing the two-year program in just one year. She then went off to Dallhousie University in Halifax, Nove Scotia, to study literature for two years. After Dallhousie she went on to teach at various island schools and published many short stories in magazines and newspapers. She didn't enjoy her teaching career, but kept with it since it afforded her time to write. Montgomery had many romance interests in her life but refused the men's proposals. She did accept one proposal in 1897, but later on she broke it off, and decided to no longer seek out romantic loves. In 1898 Mongomery moved back to Cavendish to take care of her widow grandmother. In 1901 and 1902 she worked in Halifax for the newspapers. Then she moved back to take care of her grandmother and stayed there for 13 years publishing many books. She enjoyed writing, but knew that "marriage was a necessary choice for women in Canada." In 1908 she published Anne of Green Gables, ter her grandmother's death, Montgomery finally married. She married a minister named Ewan Macdonald. They had three sons, one died before he was born. Montgomery's increase of writing was for her to escape the hardships of life, he life was hard as she had several depressions trying to deal with motherhood and church life. Montgomery also had several lawsuit problems up until 1929 in which she won against publisher L.C. Page. Montgomery's husband retired in 1935 and she then moved to a house in Swansea, Ontario, which she called Jorney's end. Here she published the next two Anne books, Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside, she also published Jane of Lantern Hill here as well. In the final year of her life Montgomery wrote The Blythes Are Quoted. Even after death many of Montgomery's stories are still very popular among people. Her Anne books where a great hit in Japan and still today many Japanese tourist visit Green Gables. There are also many possiblities on her death, some say it was from her heart, and others say she killed herself, and yet another says her journel entry was just an entry and not a suicide note. Nobody is completely sure and it is unlikely that we shall ever know, One thing is clear though, this amazing author never really had a happy life, but her stories bring joy to others.
