Details

Title

Further Chronicles of Avonlea [Webb]

Author

Montgomery, L. M.

Physical Description

xi, [5], 301 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication

Boston

Publisher

The Page Company

Edition

1st impression

Date of Publication

1920 Show more1920-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell

Note

In 1920, L.C. Page published this collection of short stories, seemingly a companion to Montgomery’s Chronicles of Avonlea (1912). However, the versions of the stories used in the published Further Chronicles were not the versions Montgomery had intended to publish at all. Montgomery had agreed, reluctantly, to publish these stories, once slated for inclusion in the 1912 collection, if and only if she could revise them to remove references to Anne Shirley and other descriptive passages she had since used elsewhere in her work. Page did not use her revised stories and instead published the original drafts. Montgomery sued, and the matter was not settled (in Montgomery’s favor) until 1928. This copy of Further Chronicles was inscribed by Montgomery and later given to Anita Webb, friend and cousin of the author. Anita was born in 1911 and raised in the house that inspired “Green Gables,” working as a cook and hostess for the many tourists that visited the site each summer. Webb was a friend and later companion for Montgomery when she got older. In this copy, and in other copies of Further Chronicles she sent to friends, Montgomery noted and annotated some of the passages that should have been revised had Page honoured their agreement. While this volume is not perhaps one of Montgomery’s “favourite reads,” as other items on the Bookshelf are, it does reveal the author’s careful attention to, and re-reading of, her own work. Her inscription pages, likely written at different times, read “This book was published by the Page Co. from manuscripts which I had never given them permission to use. Hence it is full of sentences and passages which have already been published in my other books. Also they interpolated in ‘Tannis of the Flats’ several paragraphs that injured it as an artistic unit.” and “In 1920 I entered suit against The Page Co. for an injunction to restrain them from publishing this book. In 1928, after pending nearly nine years I won the suit. See journal + box of documents”

Contents

Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat -- The Materializing of Cecil -- Her Father's Daughter -- Jane's Baby -- The Dream Child -- The Brother Who Failed -- The Return of Hester -- The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily --Sara's Way -- Son of His Mother -- The Education of Betty -- In Her Selfless Mood -- The Conscience Case of David Bell -- Only a Common Fellow -- Tannis of the Flats. [John Goss (illustrator), Nathan Haskell Dole (author of introduction)]

Genre

short story

Call Number(s)

WEB COLL-021-FCA