L.M. Montgomery was accustomed to receiving fan letters which were full of enthusiastic hero-worship like the one addressed to "Dear Wonder Person." Montgomery was proud of her accomplishments but she was uncomfortable with the adulation of strangers. "It is well that my young worshippers don't know what a very clay-footed creature their divinity is," she wrote in 1928. At worst she characterized some of her fans as "freaks" (Green Gables Letters, 76) but more often as sweet eager admirers who made her feel useful and important., Source type: Print(0)
