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Special Collection: The Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best known as the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne, an 11 year old girl, the hero of a girl’s novel has become a worldwide bestseller, from Canada to Japan, for children to adults. Tourism based on Anne is an important part of Prince Edward Island’s economy!

Information on L. M. Montgomery has practically become an industry on its own: multiple volumes of her Journals, her letters, and many works on Anne, and the author have been published. Many organizations to celebrate her works, have their own websites.

Information on L. M. Montgomery:

Thanks to the L. M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI for many of the scans of old magazines, of previously uncollected stories, from their Ryrie-Campbell Periodicals Collection.


Unmarked works which are hyperlinked are available on Faded Page.

Works marked with a * are currently under development at Distributed Proofreaders Canada and will be made available over the next few months.

Anne of Green Gables Series

  1. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
  2. Anne of Avonlea (1909)
  3. Anne of the Island (1915)
  4. Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
  5. Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
  6. Anne of Ingleside (1939) Project Gutenberg Australia
  7. Rainbow Valley (1919)
  8. Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

Emily Trilogy

  1. Emily of New Moon (1923)
  2. Emily Climbs (1925)
  3. Emily’s Quest (1927)

Pat of Silver Bush

  1. Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
  2. Mistress Pat (1933)

The Story Girl

  1. The Story Girl (1911)
    • The Home of Our Fathers
    • A Queen of Hearts: Adapted from The Old South Orchard which appeared in The Outing Magazine, January 1908.
    • Legends of the Old Orchard
    • The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess
    • Peter Goes to Church
    • The Mystery of Golden Milestone
    • How Betty Sherman Won a Husband
    • A Tragedy of Childhood
    • Magic Seed
    • A Daughter of Eve
    • The Story Girl Does Penance
    • The Blue Chest of Rachel Ward
    • An Old Proverb with a New Meaning
    • Forbidden Fruit
    • A Disobedient Brother
    • The Ghostly Bell
    • The Proof of the Pudding
    • How Kissing was Discovered
    • A Dread Prophecy
    • The Judgment Sunday
    • Dreamers of Dreams
    • The Dream Books
    • Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
    • The Bewitchment of Pat
    • A Cup of Failure
    • Peter Makes an Impression
    • The Ordeal of Bitter Apples
    • The Tale of the Rainbow Bridge
    • The Shadow Feared of Man
    • A Compound Letter
    • On the Edge of Light and Dark
    • The Opening of the Blue Chest
  2. The Golden Road (1913)
    • A New Departure
    • A Will, a Way and a Woman
    • The Christmas Harp
    • New Year Resolutions
    • The First Number of Our Magazine
    • Great-aunt Eliza's Visit
    • We Visit Cousin Mattie's
    • We Visit Peg Bowen
    • Extracts from the February and March Numbers of Our Magazine
    • Disappearance of Paddy
    • The Witch's Wishbone
    • Flowers o' May
    • A Surprising Announcement
    • A Prodigal Returns
    • The Rape of the Lock
    • Aunt Una's Story
    • Aunt Olivia's Wedding
    • Sara Ray Helps Out
    • By Way of the Stars
    • Extracts from Our Magazine
    • Peg Bowen Comes to Church
    • The Yankee Storm
    • A Missionary Heroine
    • A Tantalizing Revelation
    • The Love Story of the Awkward Man: Adapted from Paul, Shy Man from The Housekeeper, March 1907.
    • Uncle Blair Comes Home
    • The Old Order Changeth
    • The Path to Arcady
    • We Lose a Friend
    • Prophecies
    • The Last Number of Our Magazine
    • Our Last Evening Together
    • The Story Girl Goes

Miscellaneous

  1. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910): Serialized in Family Herald and Weekly Star, starting August 3, 1910.
  2. The Blue Castle (1926): Serialized originally in The Canadian Countryman, starting August 27, 1927.
  3. Magic for Marigold (1929)
  4. Magic for Marigold—The Serialized Version (2017): 7 different short stories which were eventually joined together and adapted into Magic for Marigold:
    1. Magic for Marigold (1926): The Delineator, May 1926.
    2. Lost—A Child’s Laughter (1926): The Delineator, June 1926.
    3. Bobbed Goldilocks (1926): The Delineator, July 1926.
    4. Playmate (1926): The Delineator, August 1926.
    5. “It” (1929): Chatelaine, April 1929.
    6. One Clear Call (1928): The Household Magazine, August 1928.
    7. Too Few Cooks (1925): The Delineator, February 1925.
  5. A Tangled Web (1931) [UK: Aunt Becky Began It]
  6. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

Chronological Short Story Collections

These individual stories have been collected and published as volumes by date by the Distributed Proofreading Team (US). They are mostly the same stories that were published in collections edited by Rea Wilmshurst during the ’80s and ’90s, which can be found below.

A good list of many of Montgomery’s short stories and their books can be found on the L. M Montgomery Literary Society site.

  1. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1896 to 1901 (2008) Referred to below as [SS1].
    • A Case of Trespass (1897)
    • A Christmas Inspiration (1901)
    • A Christmas Mistake (1899)
    • A Strayed Allegiance (1897)
    • An Invitation Given on Impulse (1900)
    • Detected by the Camera (1897)
    • In Spite of Myself (1896)
    • Kismet (1899)
    • Lillian’s Business Venture (1900)
    • Miriam’s Lover (1901)
    • Miss Calista’s Peppermint Bottle (1900)
    • The Jest that Failed (1901)
    • The Pennington’s Girl (1900)
    • The Red Room (1898)
    • The Setness of Theodosia (1901)
    • The Story of An Invitation (1901)
    • The Touch of Fate (1899)
    • The Waking of Helen (1901)
    • The Way of Winning Anne (1899)
    • Young Si (1901)
  2. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1902 to 1903 (2008) Referred to below as [SS2].
    • A Patent Medicine Testimonial (1903)
    • A Sandshore Wooing (1903)
    • After Many Days (1903)
    • An Unconventional Confidence (1903)
    • Aunt Cyrilla’s Christmas Basket (1903): Young People 1903?
    • Davenport’s Story (1902)
    • Emily’s Husband (1903)
    • Min (1903)
    • Miss Cordelia’s Accommodation (1903)
    • Ned’s Stroke of Business (1903)
    • Our Runaway Kite (1903)
    • The Bride Roses (1903)
    • The Josephs’ Christmas (1902)
    • The Magical Bond of the Sea (1903): Cassell’s Magazine, September 1911, under the title The Bond of the Sea.
    • The Martyrdom of Estella (1902)
    • The Old Chest at Wyther Grange (1903)
    • The Osborne’s Christmas (1903)
    • The Romance of Aunt Beatrice (1902): The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Magazine, December 8, 1910.
    • The Running Away of Chester (1903)
    • The Strike at Putney (1903)
    • The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar (1903)
    • Why Mr. Cropper Changed His Mind (1903)
  3. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1904 (2008) Referred to below as [SS3].
    • A Fortunate Mistake (1904)
    • An Unpremeditated Ceremony (1904)
    • At the Bay Shore Farm (1904)
    • Elizabeth’s Child (1904): Schoolgirl’s Annual, 1937.
    • Freda’s Adopted Grave (1904)
    • How Don Was Saved (1904)
    • Miss Madeline’s Proposal (1904)
    • Miss Sally’s Company (1904)
    • Mrs. March’s Revenge (1904)
    • Nan (1904)
    • Natty of Blue Point (1904)
    • Penelope’s Party Waist (1904)
    • The Girl and The Wild Race (1904)
    • The Promise of Lucy Ellen (1904)
    • The Pursuit of the Ideal (1904)
    • The Softening of Miss Cynthia (1904)
    • Them Notorious Pigs (1904)
    • Why Not Ask Miss Price? (1904)
  4. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1905 to 1906 (2008) Referred to below as [SS4].
    • A Correspondence and a Climax (1905)
    • An Adventure on Island Rock (1906)
    • At Five O’Clock in the Morning (1905)
    • Aunt Susanna’s Birthday Celebration (1905)
    • Bertie’s New Year (1905)
    • Between the Hill and the Valley (1905): Springfield Republican, August 27 1905; Maclean’s, April 1915.
    • Clorinda’s Gifts (1906)
    • Cyrilla’s Inspiration (1905): The Epworth Herald, November 25, 1905.
    • Dorinda’s Desperate Deed (1906)
    • Her Own People (1905)
    • Ida’s New Year Cake (1905)
    • In The Old Valley (1906): New England Homestead: September 8, 1906; American Agriculturist Weekly: September 8, 1906.
    • Jane Lavinia (1906)
    • Mackereling Out in the Gulf (1905)
    • Millicent’s Double (1905)
    • The Blue North Room (1906)
    • The Christmas Surprise At Enderly Road (1905)
    • The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby (1906)
    • The Falsoms’ Christmas Dinner (1906)
    • The Fraser Scholarship (1905)
    • The Girl at the Gate (1906)
    • The Light on the Big Dipper (1906)
    • The Prodigal Brother (1906)
    • The Redemption of John Churchill (1906)
    • The Schoolmaster’s Letter (1905)
    • The Story of Uncle Dick (1906)
    • The Understanding of Sister Sara (1905)
    • The Unforgotten One (1906)
    • The Wooing of Bessy (1906)
    • Their Girl Josie (1906)
    • When Jack and Jill Took a Hand (1905): Gunter’s Magazine, October 1905; Maclean’s, March 1915.
  5. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1907 to 1908 (2008) Referred to below as [SS5].
    • A Millionaire’s Proposal (1907)
    • A Substitute Journalist (1907): Forward and Wellspring, March 9, 1907; Girl’s Own Annual, September 1940.
    • Anna’s Love Letters (1908)
    • Aunt Caroline’s Silk Dress (1907)
    • Aunt Susanna’s Thanksgiving Dinner (1907): The Housewife, November 1907.
    • By Grace of Julius Caesar (1908)
    • By the Rule of Contrary (1908): Farm and Fireside, July 10, 1908.
    • Fair Exchange and No Robbery (1907)
    • Four Winds (1908)
    • Marcella’s Reward (1907)
    • Margaret’s Patient (1908)
    • Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves (1908)
    • Missy’s Room (1907)
    • Ted’s Afternoon Off (1907)
    • The Girl Who Drove the Cows (1908)
    • The Doctor’s Sweetheart (1908)
    • The End of the Young Family Feud (1907)
    • The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (1907)
    • The Growing Up of Cornelia (1908)
    • The Old Fellow’s Letter (1907)
    • The Parting of the Ways (1907)
    • The Promissory Note (1907)
    • The Revolt of Mary Isabel (1908)
    • The Twins and a Wedding (1908): Holland’s Magazine, May 1908 as The Twins and a Wedding; Springfield Republican May 8, 1910.
  6. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1909 to 1922 (2008) Referred to below as [SS6].
    • A Golden Wedding (1909)
    • A Redeeming Sacrifice (1909)
    • A Soul that Was Not At Home (1915)
    • Abel And His Great Adventure (1917): Canadian Magazine, February, 1917.
    • Akin to Love (1909)
    • Aunt Philippa and the Men (1915)
    • Bessie’s Doll (1914): Western Christian Advocate, February 11, 1914.
    • Charlotte’s Ladies (1911)
    • Christmas at Red Butte (1909)
    • How We Went to the Wedding (1913): Family Herald and Weekly Star, February 20 and March 6, 1935.
    • Jessamine (1909): Farm and Fireside, June 10, 1909.
    • Miss Sally’s Letter (1910)
    • My Lady Jane (1909): Springfield Republican, October 24, 1909; Maclean’s, February 1915.
    • Robert Turner’s Revenge (1909)
    • The Fillmore Elderberries 1909)
    • The Finished Story (1912): The Canadian Magazine, December 1912; Needlecraft January 1917.
    • The Garden of Spices (1918): Maclean’s, March 1918.
    • The Girl and the Photograph (1915): Farm and Fireside, August 10, 1907 as A Girl and a Picture; Maclean’s, May 1915.
    • The Gossip of Valley View (1910)
    • The Letters (1910)
    • Life-book of Uncle Jesse (1909): The Housekeeper, August 1909. Adapted into Chapter 7 of Anne’s House of Dreams.
    • The Little Black Doll (1909): Zion’s Herald, August 11, 1909; Girl’s Own Annual, January 1939.
    • The Man on the Train (1914)
    • The Romance of Jedediah (1912): The Housewife, September 1912.
    • The Tryst of the White Lady (1922): MacLean’s Magazine, August 1, 1922.
    • Uncle Richard’s New Year Dinner (1910)
    • White Magic (1921)

Short Story Collections, as originally published

These collections were made by LMM, though The Road to Yesterday/The Blythes are Quoted, were only published in modified form posthumously. All these stories, even the ones which were posthumously published, are probably out of copyright, since we eventually find all of her stories previously published in various periodicals. As the original publications are located, we are making individual stories available, from their original.

  1. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
    • The Hurrying of Ludovic: Canadian Magazine, Vol XXV, May 1905-October 1905, p. 67-71.
    • Old Lady Lloyd
    • Each In His Own Tongue: The Delineator, October 1910.
    • Little Joscelyn
    • The Winning of Lucinda
    • Old Man Shaw’s Girl: Slightly modified version, previously published under the title “Ol’ Man Reeves’ Girl” in Farm and Fireside, June 15, 1905.
    • Aunt Olivia’s Beau: The Designer, June 1905.
    • Quarantine at Alexander Abraham’s: Everybody’s Magazine, April 1907.
    • Pa Sloane’s Purchase
    • The Courting of Prissy Strong: The Housewife, July 1909.
    • The Miracle at Carmody
    • The End of a Quarrel: New England Homestead, July 20, 1907; American Agriculturist Weekly: July 20, 1907.
  2. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
    • Aunt Cynthia’s Persian Cat
    • The Materializing of Cecil
    • Her Father’s Daughter: The Christian Endeavor World, December 26, 1907.
    • Jane’s Baby
    • The Dream-Child
    • The Brother Who Failed: People’s Home Journal, September 1914; The Globe, December 1909.
    • The Return of Hester: The Canadian Magazine, May 1909.
    • The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily: Farm and Fireside, June 10, 1907; Maclean’s January 1917.
    • Sara’s Way
    • The Son of his Mother: The Canadian Magazine, March 1904; People’s Home Journal, November 1913.
    • The Education of Betty: Gunter’s Magazine, April 1906, under the title The Education of Sally.
    • In Her Selfless Mood
    • The Conscience Case of David Bell
    • Only a Common Fellow
    • Tannis of the Flats: Canadian Magazine, January 1914.
  3. The Road to Yesterday (1974): Possibly still in copyright (Abridged version of The Blythes are Quoted). The Preface to this book states: this posthumous publication of fourteen previously unpublished stories but this is clearly incorrect, unless they meant previously unpublished in book form.
    • An Afternoon With Mr. Jenkins (1933): Family Herald and Weekly Star, August 2, 1933; Girl’s Own Annual, November 1939.
    • Retribution (1936)
    • The Twins Pretend (1936)
    • Fancy’s Fool (1936)
    • A Dream Come True (1936)
    • Penelope Struts Her Theories (1936)
    • The Reconciliation (1936)
    • The Cheated Child (1936)
    • Fool’s Errand (1933)
    • The Pot and the Kettle (1936)
    • Here Comes the Bride (1936): Holland’s: The Magazine of the South, March 1937.
    • Brother Beware (1936): Country Home, June 1936.
    • The Road to Yesterday (1934): Canadian Home Journal, January 1934.
    • A Commonplace Woman (1934)
  4. The Blythes Are Quoted, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre (2009) (companion book to Rilla of Ingleside): Possibly still in copyright. Some stories have been published elsewhere, but have been modified slightly in this volume to introduce the Blythes, to appear to create a coherent book (indicated by a †, but not all have been compared). A small subset of these stories were published in The Road to Yesterday.
    • Frontispiece: "The Piper". (poetry)

      One day the Piper came down the Glen

      Sweet and long and low played he!

      The children followed from door to door,

      No matter how those who loved might implore

      So wiling the song of his melody

      As the song of a woodland rill.


      Some day the Piper will come again

      To pipe to the sons of the maple tree!

      You and I will follow from door to door,

      Many of us will come back no more

      What matter that if Freedom still

      Be the crown of each native hill?

    • [SHADOWS]Some Fools and a Saint: Family Herald and Weekly Star, May 20, May 27, June 3 and June 10th, 1931.
    • Twilight at Ingleside
      • I Wish You: Good Housekeeping, January 1936. (poetry)

        Friend o’ mine, in the year oncoming

        I wish you a little time for play,

        And an hour to dream in the eerie gloaming

        After the clamorous day.

        (And the moon like a pearl from an Indian shore

        To hang for a lantern above your door.)

         

        A little house with friendly rafters

        And someone in it to need you there,

        Wine of romance and wholesome laughters

        With a comrade or two to share.

        (And some secret spot of your very own

        Whenever you want to cry alone.)

         

        I wish you a garden on fire with roses,

        Columbines planted for your delight,

        Scent of mint in its shadowy closes,

        Clean gay winds at night.

        (Some nights for sleeping and some to ride

        With the broomstick witches far and wide.)

         

        A goodly crop of figs to gather,

        With a thistle or two to prick or sting,

        Since a harvesting too harmless is rather

        An unadventurous thing.

        (And now and then, spite of reason or rule,

        The chance to be a bit of a fool.)

         

        I wish you a thirst that can never be sated

        For all the loveliness earth can yield,

        Slim, cool birches whitely mated

        Dawn on an April field.

        (And never too big a bill to pay

        When the Fiddler finds he must up and away.)

      • The Old Path Round the Shore: The Household Ledger, October 1903; Canadian Home Journal, July 1921. (poetry)

        It winds beneath the shadow where the Druid fir trees lean

        And through their parting boughs I see the harbour's purple screen.

        Winds from the west are blowing o'er the mid-sea's purple skin,

        And in the sunset distance the boats are coming in,

        White-winged across the foam line of the misty, moaning bar,

        And further still adown the coast shines out the lighthouse star.

        ’Tis just the same as when we walked together there of yore

        But something's gone forever from the old path round the shore.

         

        Here everything still speaks of you ... the waters lisp your name,

        My listening heart repeats it as it used to when you came.

        Your laughter in the breezes rings more clearly than your own,

        The whispers in the fir boughs seem the echo of your tone,

        The summer skies above the sea are as your deep eyes blue

        The sweet wild roses on the bank are waiting, dear, for you.

        But rose and lover wait in vain for you will come no more

        To walk, the world forgetting, on the old path round the shore.

         

        And I must go my way alone adown the shining strand,

        And miss the kisses of your lips, the pressure of your hand,

        And watch with lonely eyes the gleam of purple seas afar,

        And shadowy sails that drift across the misty harbour bar;

        I wonder if in distant lands where rarer roses blow,

        You ever think of me and of those moments long ago,

        And if did fate permit it you would gladly come once more

        And walk with me at sunset on the old path round the shore.

      • Guest Room in the Country. (poetry)

        Old friend, who art my guest tonight,

        The moonshine makes your pillow white,

        A low wind at the eaves will sing

        Of many a secret far-off thing ...

        Blue hills where shining fountains hide,

        Dim shores that love the creeping tide ...

        And may a cool whiff of the dew

        Come in to minister to you.

         

        There will be leafy rumours still

        About your open window sill.

        And in the silence you may hear

        A grey owl calling to his dear,

        Or catch from where you lie a spark

        Of goblin firefly in the dark...

        And may you learn with certainty

        What a good friend a bed can be.

    • An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins: Family Herald, August 2, 1933; Girl’s Own Annual, November 1939.
    • The Second Evening
      • The New House: Chatelaine, January 1932. (poetry)

        Milk-white against the hills of pine

        Behind your aspens' shaking gold

        You wait for me; I fondly hold

        Your key and know that you are mine,

        And all your lovely ghosts I see

        Of days and years that are to be.

         

        Grey twilights sweet with April rain,

        The August madness of the moon,

        October's dear autumnal croon,

        December's storm against your pane,

        Must all enchant and mellow you

        O house, as yet too proudly new.

         

        There must be laughter here and tears,

        There must be victory and defeat,

        Sweet hours and hours of bittersweet,

        High raptures, loyalties and fears ...

        All these must blend in you to give

        A soul to you and make you live.

         

        Music of children at your door,

        And white brides glimmering down your stair,

        Girls with May-blossoms in their hair,

        And dancing feet upon your floor,

        And lovers in the whispering night

        For you, the house of friendly light.

         

        There must be fireside councils here,

        Partings and meetings, death and birth,

        Vigils of sorrow as of mirth ...

        All these will make you year by year

        A home for all who live in you,

        Dear house as yet too proudly new.

      • Robin Vespers. (poetry)

        When winds blow soft from far away

        Among the orchard trees,

        The robins whistle out the day

        With mellow minstrelsies.

        When dews are falling cool and still

        In valleys dim and far,

        The robins flute upon the hills

        To greet the evening star.

         

        Hark, hear them in the beechen glade

        And in the sunset woods!

        Hark, hear them in the haunted shade

        Of fern-sweet solitudes,

        Where little pixy people creep

        To learn the silver notes

        That in one twilight rapture leaps

        From scores of answering throats.

         

        One must be glad to hear them so,

        They are so glad themselves;

        Some darling secret they must know

        Shared by the tree-top elves,

        Some secret they would fain repeat

        To us ere darkness falls,

        When far and sweet and near and sweet

        We list the robin calls.

      • Night: The Canadian Magazine, January 1935. (poetry)
      • Man and Woman. (poetry)
    • Retribution
    • The Third Evening
      • There Is a House I Love. (poetry)

        There is a house I love

        Beside a calling sea,

        And wheresoever I may rove

        It must be home to me.

         

        There every room's a friend

        To all who come and go,

        I know the garden at the end

        And every tree I know.

         

        The wild mint by the gate,

        The pansies by the sill,

        The pointed firs that always wait

        Behind it on the hill.

         

        That house is very wise

        Remembering lovely things,

        The moons of autumn skies,

        The rains of brooding springs.

         

        Laughter that was its guest

        And vanished dancing feet,

        Oh, never find you east or west

        A house so wise and sweet.

         

        A house still full of cheer

        That is not bought or sold,

        For houses that are loved so dear

        Can nevermore grow old.

      • Sea Song. (poetry)
    • The Twins Pretend
    • The Fourth Evening
      • To a Desired Friend. (poetry)
    • Fancy’s Fool
    • The Fifth Evening
      • Midsummer Day. (poetry)
      • Remembered: Chatelaine, September 1933. (poetry)
    • A Dream Comes True (1936)
    • The Sixth Evening
      • Farewell to an Old Room: The Ladies’ Home Journal, October 1924. (poetry)
      • The Haunted Room: The Canadian Magazine, January 1929. (poetry)
      • Song of Winter: Canadian Home Journal, December 1919. (poetry)
    • Penelope Struts Her Theories
    • The Seventh Evening
      • Success. (poetry)
      • The Gate of Dream: The Canadian Magazine, Vol 54 (November 1919-April 1920), p. 158. (poetry)
      • An Old Face: The Literary Digest, October 23, 1927. (poetry)
    • The Reconciliation
    • The Cheated Child
    • Fool’s Errand
    • The Pot and the Kettle
    • Another Ingleside Twilight
      • Interlude. (poetry)
      • Come, Let Us Go. (poetry)
      • A June Day. (poetry)
      • Wind of Autumn: Canadian Home Journal, October 1922. (poetry)
      • The Wild Places. (poetry)
      • For Its Own Sake. (poetry)
      • The Change. (poetry)
      • I Know. (poetry)
    • Brother Beware: Country Home, June 1936.
    • The Second Evening
      • The Wind. (poetry)
      • The Bride Dreams. (poetry)
      • May Song. (poetry)
    • Here Comes the Bride (1936): Holland’s: The Magazine of the South, March 1937.
    • The Third Evening
      • The Parting Soul. (poetry)
      • My House. (poetry)
      • Memories. (poetry)
    • A Commonplace Woman
    • The Fourth Evening
      • Canadian Twilight. (poetry)
      • Oh, We Will Walk With Spring Today: Canadian Verse for Boys and Girls. (poetry)
      • Grief: The Canadian Magazine, March 1922. (poetry)
      • The Room
    • The Road to Yesterday: Canadian Home Journal, January 1934.
    • Au Revoir
      • I Want. (poetry)
      • The Pilgrim. (poetry)
      • Spring Song. (poetry)
      • The Aftermath. (poetry)

        Yesterday we were young who now are old

        We fought hot-hearted under a sweet sky,

        The lust of blood made even cowards bold,

        And no one feared to die;

        We were all drunken with a horrid joy,

        We laughed as devils laugh from hell released,

        And, when the moon rose redly in the east,

        I killed a stripling boy [ . . . . ]

        I killed him horribly and I was glad.

         

        Now we are old who yesterday were young

        And cannot see the beauty of the skies,

        For we have gazed the pits of hell among

        And they have scorched our eyes.

        The dead are happier than we who live,

        For, dying, they have purged their memory thus

        And won forgetfulness; but what to us

        Can such oblivion give?

         

        We must remember always; evermore

        Must spring be hateful and the dawn a shame . . .

        We shall not sleep as we have slept before

        That withering blast of flame.

        The wind has voices that may not be stilled . . .

        The wind that yester morning was so blithe . . .

        And everywhere I look I see him writhe,

        That pretty boy I killed!

Our Own Collections of Short Stories

Mostly these collections contain stories that haven't been previously part of a popular collection. We try to bring you the original images from their original publications, if they are in the public domain. The poetry found in these collections has not been previous collected.

  1. Faded, Yellowed, Tattered and Torn: Uncollected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery. A compilation of lost stories, transcribed from their original magazine scans. Referred to as [FADEDV1]
    • Poetry: In Haying Time (1897)
    • A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College, 1896 (1896): Essay
    • The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931): Essay
    • An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931): Essay
    • Is This My Anne? (1935): Essay
    • A June Memory (1910): Poetry
    • The Woods in Summer (1911)
    • The Woods in Autumn (1911)
    • The Woods in Winter (1911)
    • Spring in the Woods (1911)
    • A Winter Dawn (1899): Poetry
    • The Little Gable Window (1907): Poetry
    • Our Charivari (1896)
    • Our Practical Joke (1896)
    • Our Uncle Wheeler (1896)
    • A Missing Pony (1896)
    • A Pastoral Call (1898)
    • Old Hector’s Dog (1898)
    • A New-Fashioned Flavoring (1898)
    • A Brave Girl (1899)
    • A Double Joke (1899)
    • A Country Boy (1898): Poetry
    • Uncle Dick’s Little Girl (1903)
    • Aunt Rose’s Girl: A Story of Commencement Days (1904)
    • Margaret Ann’s Mother (1910)
    • Uncle Chatterton’s Gingerbread (1912)
    • Josephine’s Husband (1913)
    • A Patent Medicine Testimonial: The Overreaching of Uncle Abimelech (1903)
    • Teddy’s Mother (1902)
    • How Grandma Ran Away (1909)
    • The Violet’s Spell (1894): Poetry

Other Short Stories, not known to be in a collection

All the collections of short stories, whether by LMM or other editors, were collections of stories previously published in many different magazines. These are stories we have located in various magazines, which we do not believe have been previously collected, at least, not in any collection targeted at a non-scholarly audience. All these stories are either now available, or are under development. Some we have collected ourselves, see the previous section.

Note that many of Montgomery’s novels appeared in various forms in various periodicals; either as serials, or as short stories which became one or two chapters of the novel. Such short stories were slightly different, to allow the stories to stand alone. Only a few of them have been included here.

Other Collections of Stories, by other editors, with commentary

These collections are still under copyright. However, the individual stories that were published prior to Montgomery’s death are out of copyright. The ones published in 1922 or prior have already been collected in the various collections produced by DP-US. See links above, to Chronological Short Story Collections.

Stories in these collections fall into one of three categories:

  1. Pre-1923: Published in one of the story collections above. [XXXX] beside the story is a link to the collection above.
  2. Post-1923: Published here on fadedpage as a standalone story, and linked directly to the download page.
  3. One story’s derivation is unknown.
  1. The Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories, selected by Catherine McLay (1979)
    • [SS5] The Doctor’s Sweetheart (1906): Watson’s Magazine, December 1906, under the title The Wisdom of the Heart; also in The Canadian Magazine, Vol XXXI (May 1908-October 1908), p. 154-158.
    • I Know a Secret (1935): Good Housekeeping, August 1935.
    • The Bride is Waiting (1932): The Canadian Magazine, April 1932.
    • [SS6] The Garden of Spices (1918): The Girl’s Own Paper, September, 1937; Maclean’s, March 1918.
    • [SS6] Abel and His Great Adventure (1917): Canadian Magazine, February, 1917.
    • [SS6] My Lady Jane (1909): Springfield Republican, October 24, 1909; Maclean’s, February 1915.
    • [SS6] The Finished Story (1912): The Canadian Magazine, December 1912; Needlecraft, January 1917.
    • [SS6] Akin to Love (1909)
    • [SS5] By the Grace of Julius Casear (1908): The Canadian Magazine, Vol XXXI (May 1908-October 1908), p. 412-416.
    • [SS5] The Parting of the Ways (1907): The Canadian Magazine, Vol XXVIII, November 1906-April 1907, p. 335-336.
    • [SS3] The Promise of Lucy Ellen (1904): The Delineator, February, 1904.
    • [SS3] The Girls and the Wild Race (1904)
    • [SS2] Emily’s Husband (1903): The Canadian Magazine, November, 1903.
    • [SS1] Kismet (1899)
  2. Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1988)
    • Charlotte’s Quest (1933)
    • [SS5] Marcella’s Reward (1907)
    • [SS1] An invitation Given on Impulse (1900)
    • [SS3] Freda’s Adopted Grave (1904)
    • [SS5] Ted’s Afternoon Off (1907)
    • [SS5] The Girl Who Drove the Cows (1908)
    • [SS3] Why Not Ask Miss Price? (1904)
    • [SS4] Jane Lavinia (1906)
    • [SS2] The Running Away of Chester (1903)
    • [SS4] Millicent’s Double (1905)
    • [SS3] Penelope’s Party Waist (1904): The Designer, March 1904.
    • [SS6] The Little Black Doll (1909): Zion’s Herald, August 11, 1909; Girl’s Own Annual, January 1939.
    • [SS4] The Fraser Scholarship (1905)
    • [SS4] Her Own People (1905)
    • [SS3] Miss Sally’s Company (1904)
    • [SS1] The Story of an Invitation (1901)
    • [SS3] The Softening of Miss Cynthia (1904)
    • [SS5] Margaret’s Patient (1908)
    • [SS6] Charlotte’s Ladies (1911)
  3. Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1989)
    • [SS2] The Magical Bond of the Sea (1903): Cassell’s Magazine, September 1911, under the title The Bond of the Sea.
    • [SS6] The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse (1909)
    • [SS4] Mackereling out in the Gulf (1905)
    • [SS5] Fair Exchange and No Robbery (1907)
    • [SS3] Natty of Blue Point (1904)
    • [SS4] The Light on the Big Dipper (1906)
    • [SS4] An Adventure on Island Rock (1906)
    • [SS3] How Don Was Saved (1904)
    • [SS6] A Soul That Was Not at Home (1909)
    • [SS5] Four Winds (1908): The Housewife, October and November 1908.
    • [SS2] A Sandshore Wooing (1903): The Designer, August 1903.
    • [SS2] The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar (1903): Western Christian Advocate, January 18, 1911.
    • [SS1] A Strayed Allegiance (1897)
    • [SS1] The Waking of Helen (1901)
    • [SS1] Young Si (1901)
    • A House Divided Against Itself (1930): Canadian Home Journal, March 1930. Adapted for A Tangled Web.
  4. Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1990) Referred to above as [SHADOWS]
    • The Closed Door (1934): Family Herald, June 1934.
    • [SS2] Davenport’s Story (1902): Waverley Magazine, April 1902.
    • The Deacon’s Painkiller (?)
    • [SS1] Detected by the Camera (1897): Philadelphia Times, June 1897.
    • From out the Silence (1934): Family Herald, January 1934.
    • [SS4] The Girl at the Gate (1906): National Magazine, August 1906.
    • The House Party at Smoky Island (1935): Weird Tales Magazine, August 1935; Startling Mystery Stories Fall 1968.
    • [SS6] The Man on the Train (1914): Canadian Courier, July 1914.
    • [SS2] The Martyrdom of Estella (1902): Waverley Magazine, December 1902.
    • [SS2] Min (1903): American Home, December 1903.
    • [SS1] Miriam’s Lover (1901): Waverley Magazine, June 1901.
    • [SS1] Miss Calista’s Peppermint Bottle (1900): Westminster Magazine, November 1910; also Springfield Republican, November 1900 under the title Of Miss Calista’s Peppermint
    • [SS2] The Old Chest at Wyther Grange (1903): Waverley Magazine, September 1903.
    • [SS1] The Red Room (1898): Waverley Magazine, July 1898.
    • [SS6] A Redeeming Sacrifice (1909): Holland’s Magazine, February 1909.
    • [SS4] The Redemption of John Churchill (1906): American Magazine, June 1906.
    • Some Fools and a Saint (1931): Family Herald and Weekly Star, May 20, May 27, June 3 and June 10th, 1931.
    • [SS6] The Tryst of the White Lady (1922): Maclean’s, August 1922.
    • [SS6] White Magic (1921): Woman’s Century, June and July 1921.
  5. After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1991)
    • [SS2] After Many Days (1903)
    • [SS2] The Bride Roses (1903)
    • [SS6] The Romance of Jedediah (1912): The Housewife, September 1912.
    • [SS3] Elizabeth’s Child (1904): Young People, December 17, 1904; Schoolgirl’s Annual 1937; Girl’s Own Annual, December 1937.
    • [SS4] In The Old Valley (1906): New England Homestead: September 8, 1906; American Agriculturist Weekly: September 8, 1906.
    • [SS4] The Prodigal Brother (1906)
    • [SS6] Robert Turner’s Revenge (1909)
    • For a Dream’s Sake (1935)
    • The Price (1930)
    • [SS6] A Golden Wedding (1909)
    • [SS3] Mrs. March’s Revenge (1904)
    • [SS5] An Unpremeditated Ceremony (1907)
    • [SS5] Missy’s Room (1907)
    • [SS4] The Story of Uncle Dick (1906): New England Homestead, July 28, 1906; American Agriculturist Weekly, July 28, 1906.
    • [SS2] The Romance of Aunt Beatrice (1902): The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Magazine, December 8, 1910.
    • [SS1] The Setness of Theodosia (1901)
    • [SS4] Between the Hill and the Valley (aka The Hill and the Valley) (1905): Springfield Republican, August 27 1905; Maclean’s, April 1915.
    • The Man Who Forgot (1932): Family Herals and Weekly Star, January 6 and 13, 1932.
  6. Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1993)
    • [SS3] At the Bay Shore Farm (1904)
    • [SS6] Bessie’s Doll (1914): Western Christian Advocate, February 11, 1914.
    • [SS4] The Blue North Room (1906)
    • [SS6] A Case of Trespass (1909)
    • [SS4] Dorinda’s Desperate Deed (1906)
    • [SS6] The Fillmore Elderberries (1909)
    • [SS5] The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (1907)
    • [SS6] How We Went to the Wedding (1913): The Housewife, April and May 1913, Adapted from Chapter 31 of Rilla of Ingleside; Family Herald and Weekly Star, Feburary 20, and March 6, 1935; Girl’s Own Paper October 1938.
    • [SS1] In Spite of Myself (1896)
    • [SS1] Lilian’s Business Venture (1900)
    • [SS2] Ned’s Stroke of Business (1903): Farm and Fireside, January 15, 1903.
    • [SS2] A Patent Medicine Testimonial (1903)
    • A Question of Acquaintance (1929): MacLean’s Magazine, October 1929.
    • [SS2] The Strike at Putney (1903)
    • [SS5] A Substitute Journalist (1907): Forward and Wellspring, March 9, 1907; Girl’s Own Annual, September 1940.
    • [SS4] Their Girl Josie (1906): American Home, 1906; Maclean’s, July 1915.
    • Where There is a Will There is a Way (1934)
    • [SS2] Why Mr. Cropper Changed His Mind (1903)
  7. At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1994)
    • [SS6] Aunt Philippa and the Men (1915): Red Book Magazine, January 1915. Adapted for Chapter 8 of Anne’s House of Dreams.
    • [SS5] By the Rule of Contrary (1908): Farm and Fireside, July 10, 1908.
    • A Dinner of Herbs (1928)
    • [SS4] The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby (1906): The Housewife, February 1906.
    • [SS6] The Gossip of Valley View (1910)
    • [SS6] Jessamine (1909): Farm and Fireside, June 10, 1909.
    • [SS2] Miss Cordelia’s Accommodation (1903): Western Canadian Advocate, May 11, 1910.
    • [SS3] Nan (1904)
    • [SS3] Them Notorious Pigs [The Nuisance of Women] (1904): New England Homestead, October 15, 1904; American Agriculturist Weekly: October 15, 1904.
    • [SS1] The Pennington’s Girl (1900)
    • [SS3] The Pursuit of the Ideal (1904): What to Eat, May 1904.
    • [SS1] The Touch of Fate (1899)
    • [SS6] The Twins and a Wedding [The Twins and a Pretty Wedding] (1908): Holland’s Magazine, May 1908 as The Twins and a Wedding; Springfield Republican May 8, 1910.
    • [SS2] An Unconventional Confidence (1903): New Idea Woman’s Magazine, April 1903.
    • [SS1] The Way of the Winning of Anne [The Winning of Anne] (1900)
    • What Aunt Marcella Would Have Called It (1935): Family Herald and Weekly Star, June 19, 1935.
    • [SS4] When Jack and Jill Took a Hand (1905): Gunter’s Magazine, October 1905; Maclean’s, March 1915.
    • [SS4] The Wooing of Bessy (1906): Trotwood’s Monthly, April 1906.
  8. Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1995): All the stories in this collection are pre-1923, and are found in the DP-US collections.
    • [SS1] The Gest that Failed (1901)
    • [SS2] Our Runaway Kite (1903): New Idea Woman’s Magazine, October 1903.
    • [SS3] A Fortunate Mistake (1904)
    • [SS3] Miss Madeline’s Proposal (1904): Modern Women, September 1904.
    • [SS4] At Five O’Clock in the Morning (1905): National Magazine, July 1905; Maclean’s September 1914.
    • [SS4] Aunt Susanna’s Birthday Celebration (1905): New Idea Woman’s Magazine, February 1905.
    • [SS4] A Correspondence and a Climax (1905): The Sunday Magazine, August 20, 1905.
    • [SS4] Cyrilla’s Inspiration (1905): The Epworth Herald, November 25, 1905.
    • [SS4] The Schoolmaster’s Letters (1905): The Sunday Magazine, June 4, 1905; Holland’s Magazine, August 1914.
    • [SS4] The Understanding of Sister Sara (1905)
    • [SS5] Aunt Caroline’s Silk Dress (1907)
    • [SS5] A Millionaire’s Proposal (1907)
    • [SS5] The Odd Fellow’s Letters (1907)
    • [SS5] Anna’s Love Letters (1908)
    • [SS5] The Growing Up of Cornelia (1908): Pictorial Review, October 1908.
    • [SS5] The Revolt of Mary Isabel (1908)
    • [SS6] The Letters (1910): Sunday at Home, April 1910. Also National Magazine, November 1910; Maclean’s, December 1915.
    • [SS6] Miss Sally’s Letter (1910)
    • [SS5] The Promissory Note (1913)
    • [SS6] The Girl and the Photograph (1915): Farm and Fireside, August 10, 1907 as A Girl and a Picture; Maclean’s, May 1915.
  9. Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1995): All the stories in this collection are pre-1923, and are found in the DP-US collections.
    • [SS2] Aunt Cyrilla’s Christmas Basket (1903): Young People 1903?
    • [SS4] Bertie’s New Year (1905): Pittsburg Christian Advocate, 28 December 1905.
    • [SS6] Christmas at Red Butte (1909): East and West, 25 December 1909.
    • [SS1] A Christmas Inspiration (1901): Family Herald 1901?; also Churchman 19 December 1909.
    • [SS1] A Christmas Mistake (1899): Family Herald, 20 December 1899.
    • [SS4] The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road (1905): King’s Own, 23 December 1905.
    • [SS4] Clorinda’s Gifts (1906): Epworth Herald, 15 December 1906.
    • [SS5] The End of the Young Family Feud (1907): Epworth Herald, 14 December 1907.
    • [SS4] The Falsoms’ Christmas Dinner (1906): East and West, 22 December 1906.
    • [SS4] Ida’s New Year Cake (1905): Days of Youth, 31 December 1905.
    • [SS2] The Josephs’ Christmas (1902): Sunday School Visitor 1902?
    • Katherine Brooke Comes to Green Gables (1936) — Anne of Windy Poplars, Second Year, Sections 4-6.
    • Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves (1908) — Anne of Green Gables, chapter XXV.
    • [SS2] The Osbornes’ Christmas (1903):Zion’s Herald, 16 December 1903.
    • [SS6] Uncle Richard’s New Year’s Dinner (1910): Congregationalist, 1 January 1910; also East and West, 31 December 1910.
    • [SS4] The Unforgotten One (1906): Zion’s Herald, 19 December 1906; also Canadian Courier, 18 December 1909; also Springfield Republican, 22 December 1907 under the title She was the Forgotten One.
  10. After Many Years: Twenty-one “Long-Lost” Stories By L. M. Montgomery (2016), Selected and Edited by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christy Woster. Note we do not yet have all the stories in this volume, though they are all believed to be out of copyright.

Poetry

Note some other poetry can be found mixed into some of the collections of short stories.

Letters

Non-fiction