💐🎙️ Hello kindred spirits, and welcome to MaudCast, the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. To launch Season Three of MaudCast, we are happy to share a MaudSwap, a special crossover episode with the Kindred Spirits Book Club.

🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery! We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.” 📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...

📚🔍 Take a look at the newest piece in our “Back to the Future” collection! The point of perspective of this poem is taken from the end of Maud Montgomery’s life. It is a first-person keening of her life’s story.

📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Week 3 of desert islands and the high seas! Take a look at Montgomery’s copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. 📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms

💐📚 Myisha Haynes, illustrator of Anne of West Philly by Ivy Weir, admires Anne Shirley for her heart. Haynes notes that even as Anne faces challenges, she remains compassionate and determined. This combination of vulnerability and strength allows readers to see themselves in Anne’s journey.

📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Check out Montgomery’s copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, chock full of tucked- and pasted-in illustrations and clippings.

📚💐 The next three Bookshelf Wednesdays include some deserted islands and perhaps a few pirates! First, is Montgomery’s copy of J.M. Barrie’s play The Admirable Crichton. The play wasn’t Montgomery’s favorite Barrie text, but it’s definitely an interesting story!

💐🏡 Explore the newest piece in our “L. M. Montgomery and the Politics of Home” collection! Julie A. Sellers is the author of the novel 𝘈𝘯𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘦 (Meadowlark Press, 2022) and 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦: 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (Blue Cedar Press, 2021).

🎬💐 For Canadian-American actress Colleen Dewhurst, who portrayed Marilla Cuthbert in the Anne of Green Gables TV miniseries, the enduring power of Montgomery's beloved story lies in connection. She saw the phrase “kindred spirit” as a reminder of how we recognize ourselves in others.

📚✍️ For author C. E. Gatchalian, Anne Shirley embodies resistance. Born into a society that preferred boys, Anne offers an imaginative counterworld - one of beauty, transcendence, and creative defiance.

📚Bookshelf Wednesday is back with many new additions and exciting finds! This week, learn more about a few Canadian authors on Montgomery’s shelves. kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #maud150 #canadianliterature

🎶📚 The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin cherished Anne of Green Gables for its spirited characters. She admired Anne’s determination, Gilbert’s charm, and Marilla’s steadfastness, and dreamed of seeing the Island where their world came to life.

💯 publications. Countless contributors. One shared passion. 📚🎊 The Journal of L. M. Montgomery Studies is celebrating its 100th publication ... and counting! - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #100publications #journaloflmmontgomerystudies #jlmms #princeedwardisland #maud150

🎭 Megan Follows, celebrated Canadian-American actress and director, is forever linked to Anne Shirley through her unforgettable role in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables miniseries. For Follows, Anne’s story is much more than a coming-of-age tale.

✍️📚 In 2013, Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated for her “mastery of the contemporary short story.” Reflecting on the work of L. M. Montgomery, Munro offered high praise for Emily of New Moon, calling it “by far [Montgomery’s] best book.”

💐✍️ A new piece has been added to the “Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery” collection in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘓.𝘔. 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴! 📲 To read “A Short History of Writers and Artists Responding to L.M. Montgomery” by Dr. Kate Scarth, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Writers-and-...

💐✍️ We have a new addition to the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies “Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery” collection! 📲 Read “A Gathering of Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery: A Foreword” by Liz Rosenberg here: journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Writers-and-...

🎧 Now on Audible! The Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery, an Audible Original by Dr. Kate Scarth, Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies at UPEI, is out now ‼️ 📲 Discover the many sides of Lucy Maud Montgomery in a rich, engaging audio experience! 🔗 Listen now on Audible: www.audible.ca/pd/The-Life-...

‼️📚Now available! A special print collection from the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies! "Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery" collects—in a full colour print volume—the work of 32 artists and writers whose works have been published in the journal over the last year.

💐📚 More than a century after she first arrived at Bright River station, Anne Shirley remains one of literature’s most beloved characters. Author of 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦: 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘖𝘧), Kathleen Gros, reminds us why Anne continues to connect with readers of all ages.

REMINDER‼️: The 17th Biennial International Conference of the L.M. Montgomery Institute will be held June 24–28, 2026. 📲 Visit lmmontgomery.ca/upcoming-con... to view the full Call for Papers, and submit proposals for presentations, panels, or workshops by August 15, 2025. - #lmmontgomery #maud150

📚🥀 Montgomery first read Poems of Passion in 1898, shortly after her intense “love affair” with Herman Leard. She noted that she has “lived” each poem herself. 📲 Learn more about the volume here: kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #bookshelfwednesday #canadianliterature #maud150

Take a look at the latest from our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection!. To read, “Jane of Lantern Hill and the Montgomery Sugar Maple: An Allegory for Regeneration” by James E. Garratt, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Gar... - #janeoflanternhill #lmmontgomery #maud150 #jlmms

✍️💐 Margaret Atwood is one of Canada’s most celebrated literary voices. Reflecting on L. M. Montgomery’s 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, Atwood offers a fresh perspective that reveals the deeper emotional layers found in Montgomery's beloved story.

📚💐 This week, take a look at Montgomery’s copy of Scott’s Rob Roy, one of her perennial favourite books that she read and re-read throughout her life, citing it in no less than five of her own novels. 📲 See what Montgomery pasted and tucked between the pages here: kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...

💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College. Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.

💐💔 Remembering Jennie Macneill, Preserver of L.M. Montgomery’s Cavendish Home The L.M. Montgomery Institute mourns the passing of beloved friend, Jennie Macneill (1929–2025). 📲 To read more about Jennie Macneill’s life and love for Montgomery, visit lmmontgomery.ca/remembering-... - #lmmi #maud

📚 A special and fascinating Bookshelf Wednesday! Take a look at Van Vechten’s The Tiger in the House, a cultural history of cats. Montgomery read the book in 1921 and was taken by its discussion of iconic cats and iconic cat-lovers through history. kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery

🇨🇦🏆 We’re thrilled to share that Elizabeth Epperly, founder of the L. M. Montgomery Institute, has been appointed to the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada! Congratulations, Dr. Epperly, on this extraordinary honour! 💐❤️ - #GGHonours

📚💐 Montgomery listed 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 among her favourite books for many years. 📲 Explore her copy of the book and see the interesting underlines and clippings she left behind. kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #writers #bookshelfwednesday #davidcopperfield

📚💐 Take a look at Montgomery’s own copy of the Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, complete with a variety of included ephemera—not from Pickwick but from Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”—and learn more about her love of the book. kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #bookshelfwednesday #writers #charlesdickens

📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Take a look at the interesting placement of the illustrations Montgomery added to her copy of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. www.kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #princeedwardisland #janeausten #books #writers #authors #canadianliterature

This year’s winner of the special prize in the PEI Provincial Heritage Festival “L.M. Montgomery” category is Freya Gallant, Grade 7, from Gulf Shore School, for her research on “Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery?” 🎉 Congratulations, Freya! 🎉 - #lmmontgomery #princeedwardisland #lucymaudmontgomery #lmmi

✨📚 We’re thrilled to share a new piece in our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection! 📲 To read, “Anne, Erased” by Jeanette Lynes, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/maud-150/Lyn... - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #backtothefuture #canadianliterature #writers

🎙️✨ Join us for a virtual roundtable conversation featuring acclaimed and active writers and artists as they explore the far-reaching influence of L. M. Montgomery. 📣 All are welcome - come share, reflect, and be inspired. 📲 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ro... Photo Credit: Lesli Weston

👰‍♀️✨ We have an exciting new piece in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘓.𝘔. 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 “Vistas” collection! 📲 To view “Crepe de Soie with Tunic of Chiffon”: Stitching Together the History of L.M. Montgomery’s Wedding Attire” by Deborah Quaile, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vistas/Quail... - #jlmms

📚Montgomery’s copies of two of Jane Austen’s novels reveal more than meets the eye. 📲Check out Montgomery's copy of 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 and 𝘌𝘮𝘮𝘢, and see what she underlined and pasted into each volume! kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #maud150

📚 Bookshelf Wednesday! See Montgomery’s only lightly annotated copy of the works of Percy Shelley, in which she has tucked an interesting illustration that doesn’t quite belong… kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #books #canadianliterature #writers #lucymaudmontgomery #percyshelley

🎉📚 The L.M. Montgomery Institute is thrilled to reveal our new website and logo! Our new site is designed to share news on the LMMI's research projects, collections, conferences, and beyond. Visit the site and check out all of the exciting links to our other LMMI initiatives! 📲 lmmontgomery.ca

📚Bookshelf Wednesday! Explore Montgomery's copy of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which she pasted and tucked a variety of clippings and marked a few passages that made their way into her fiction. kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature

✨📚 We’re thrilled to share a new piece in our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection! This short story is based on Chapter 3, “In the Watches of the Night,” in L.M. Montgomery’s 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘴. 📲 To read, “Fairfax Morrison” by Vappu Kannas, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Kan...

🌈📚 Queer joy is a ticket to a journey back to the future! 📲 To read, “Heartstopping Moments: Rainbow Joy, Queering Spaces, and Shaping Futurities in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne and Emily Novels” by Lesley D. Clement, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Cle...

💐🤱 To celebrate Mother's Day, we're honoured to present the newest addition to our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection. 📲 Read “Dear Maud, While It’s Your 150th Birthday, It’s Also Clara’s 150th Mother’s Day” by Deborah Quaile here: journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Qua...

🌺🔍 Take a look at the latest from our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection, an invitation to reconsider L.M. Montgomery’s legacy through fresh perspectives! 📲 journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Led...

✨Our first piece in the #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection honours a group of people whose efforts have kept the life story of L.M. Montgomery alive. 📲 To read, "Honouring an Early Generation of LMM Legacy Pioneers..." by Mary Beth Cavert, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Cav...

1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ 💐 #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection celebrates the 150th anniversary of L.M. Montgomery’s birth on 30 November 2024! Today, we launch the first pieces in this collection, with more to come soon… 📲 Explore our newest collection here: journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud150-Back...

📚Learn more about Trilby, a novel of Bohemian Paris by George DuMaurier. As a young woman, Montgomery counted three of the young artists at the center of the story as good friends! kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...

🇹🇭🇨🇦 Long considered a Canadian cultural icon, Anne Shirley has now become a cultural ambassador to Thailand! 📲 Check out Yuka Kajihara-Nolan’s interview with award-winning translator Varavadi V. Monaghan here: journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/internationa... - #lmmontgomery #canadianliterature

📚The Royal Readers were used in schools throughout Prince Edward Island, including Montgomery’s Cavendish and, likely, Anne’s Avonlea. Check out this, the 6th Royal Reader to learn about the texts Montgomery was reading in school! kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob... - #lmmontgomery #writers

🌺📚 Check out our newest piece in the “L.M. Montgomery and Mental Health” collection! 📲 To read “Mental Health and Resilience in the Emily Trilogy: Emily Byrd Starr and Cousin Jimmy through the Lens of Garden Therapy” by Yoshiko Akamatsu, visit journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/mental-healt...