Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Waterston (Professor Emerita University of Guelph), Kate Waterston
L.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to "keep the home fires burning." It is a novel that today remains at once both deeply moving and, on occasion, very funny.
As she wrote the novel over a period of two years, Montgomery accumulated 518 handwritten pages. Alongside this stack was another 71 pages, titled "Notes." These notes-- literary second thoughts, as it were--added textual flavour, improving...
L.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers ...
