A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917

✍ Scribed by L.M. Montgomery (editor); Benjamin Lefebvre (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book collects a majority of Montgomery’s early and non-fiction publications across a variety of forms and places them in the context of her career and the narrative strategies of women authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface
A Note on the Text
Part 1: Early and Student Publications
The Wreck of the “Marco Polo”
A Western Eden
From Prince Albert to P.E. Island
The Usual Way
Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse
High School Life in Saskatchewan
Valedictory
“Portia” – A Study. Miss Montgomery’s Essay at the P. of W. Convocation
“Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?”
Crooked Answers
The Bad Boy of Blanktown School
James Henry, Truant
A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College
To the Editor
Part 2: Maud Montgomery, Newspaper Woman
A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery
Around the Table
Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers
Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores
Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates
Netted Doily
Innocent Irreverence
Part 3: The Upward Climb to Heights Sublime
Two Sides of a Life Story
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index