A live on-location podcast swap from the imaginative birthplace of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. How did Montgomery keep her love and writing life secret from the curious eyes of her Cavendish neighbours?

Description

In this season three launch of the MaudCast, we chat with Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner, the hosts of the Kindred Spirits Podcast. On a very hot summer day, MaudCast host Brenton Dickieson met Kelly and Ragon at the Green Gables Heritage Site in Cavendish. They headed up the hill to the church, which was built when Montgomery was caring for her grandmother at the homestead at the back of the same property. This episode offers a local perspective on Montgomery’s life and works, including the great secrets of her private life as a public figure. We hope you enjoy this special crossover episode between the MaudCast and Kindred Spirits Book Club! A podcast swap … a podswap—a MaudSwap! When you enjoy, please like and share.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world to the microphone. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.

Guest Host Bios

Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner are fans of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s work and have been sharing their love for Anne through their podcast: The Kindred Spirit Book Club. They bring beloved characters from the page into our homes through witty and insightful conversations, so we’re very pleased to join with them in on this podswap episode!

Follow Kelly and Ragon on Instagram: @kindredspirits.bookclub

Website: https://www.kindredspiritsbookclub.com/

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

MaudCast Intern: Fleur Rodrigues

Logo Design: Heidi Haering

The MaudCast on Social Media

Find the MaudCast on Instagram: @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson Instagram: @bdickieson

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com

Credits

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Thanks to Rev. Eric and the volunteers at the Cavendish United Church for hosting our discussion.

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI, the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, historian Alan MacEachern joins Brenton Dickieson to talk about Alan’s work as a historian of place and as the 2022-23 L.M. Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar. Dr. Alan MacEachern is a Canadian history professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has recently published a book on the Miramichi fire, and an upcoming book with UPEI’s Dr. Ed MacDonald, The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island, will be out any day now. As they are both “Island boys,” Brenton and Alan discuss this unique place to visit and call home, Prince Edward Island, and how Montgomery’s life and works help people from around the world become intrigued with PEI. They talk about the upcoming Montgomery Institute Conference in June 2022, with the theme of “L.M. Montgomery and Re-Vision.” Alan also shares about his current research project on the diary of Myrtle Webb, bringing to life the family that lived at the home that inspired the “Green Gables” in Montgomery’s iconic Anne books. 

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Keziah Stoltz

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

MaudCast Media Contacts:

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ 

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ 

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ 

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/  

Guest Social Media Links:   

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanmaceachern  

University Website: https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/maceachern.html   

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1623333.Alan_MacEachern?from_search=true&from_srp=true  

Closing Quotation:

The extract from Myrtle Webb’s diary will be part of Dr. MacEachern’s future book, tentatively titled Myrtle Webb of Green Gables. You can see his upcoming keynote talk at the L.M. Montgomery and Re-vision conference this summer, information here: https://lmmontgomery.ca//lm-montgomery-and-re-vision 

MacEachern, Alan and MacDonald, Edward. The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Publication Date: April 15th, 2022

MacEachern, Alan. The Miramichi Fire: A history. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020 

MacEachern, Alan. Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935–1970. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

The MaudCast is a global podcast in a digital age but operates in a particular time and place. Thus, we would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land upon which we broadcast is the traditional and ongoing unceded territory of the Abegweit Mi’kmaq First Nation.

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Keziah Stoltz

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

MaudCast Media Contacts:

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ 

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ 

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ 

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/  

Guest Social Media Links:   

Twitter: @julieasellers 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julieasellersauthor  

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/julieasellers/

Website: https://julieasellers.com/ 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7785927.Julie_A_Sellers

Closing Quotation:

“We will meet, somewhere, there in the middle of the book…” From Julie A. Sellers, Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables (Wichita: Blue Cedar Press, 2021), p. 20.

Sellers, Julie A. Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables. Wichita: Blue Cedar Press, 2021.

Sellers, Julie A. “‘Just as If I Was a Heroine in a Book’: Quixotic Identification in and with Anne of Green Gables.” In Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, edited by Jessica Carniel and Nike Sulway, 105–20. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Sellers, Julie A. “‘A Good Imagination Gone Wrong’: Reading Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 5 June 2019, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/sellers.

The MaudCast is a global podcast in a digital age but operates in a real time and space. Thus, we would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land upon which we broadcast is the traditional and ongoing unceded territory of the Abegweit Mi’kmaq First Nation.

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with scholar and fiction writer, Melanie J. Fishbane to talk about how Mel brings together the creative and the critical in dialogue with L.M. Montgomery’s life and work. At the centre of their discussion is Mel’s literary YA historical fiction, Maud. They discuss Mel’s research and discovery process, getting to the heart of how Lucy Maud Montgomery--”Maud” to her friends and family--became a living character in Mel’s imagination. They discuss Mel’s artistic and character choices, including the difficult conversation about Montgomery and indigenous peoples she encountered, especially in her year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Mel’s choices in the novel, we see--including an elegant moment of drawing the question to the surface--are informed by sensitive research, scholarly insight, writerly instinct, and the ethical choice to seek consultation. Listeners to this episode will appreciate an in-depth discussion about the writing process, and hear about Melanie’s scholarly work, including a recent paper bringing together two Annes--Anne Frank and Anne of Green Gables--woven together thoughtfully with Melanie’s own writerly perspective. Listeners will also enjoy conversation about great books, journaling, the perils of workplace cats, and the importance of coloured pens.

Podcast Description

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Keziah Stoltz

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

MaudCast Media Contacts:

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ 

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ 

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ 

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/  

Guest Social Media Links:   

Twitter: @MelanieFishbane

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelanieJFishbane/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melanie_fishbane/ 

Website: https://melaniefishbane.com/ 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15505239.Melanie_J_Fishbane 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

Adapted Closing Quotation:

“May you, dear readers, create stories that come from the dark corners of your soul, giving voice to your rainbow valleys, shining waters, and disappointed houses too” (Melanie J. Fishbane, Maud: A Novel INspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery, p. 366).

Research References from the Show:

Fishbane, Melanie J. Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: Penguin Teen Canada, 2017.

Fishbane, Melanie J. “Two Annes, Many Annes: A Writer’s Reflection on Reading Anne of Green Gables and The Diary of a Young Girl.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 18 July 2021, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/fishbane-two-annes-many-annes. 

Fishbane, Melanie J. “‘My Pen Shall Heal, Not Hurt’: Writing as Therapy in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted.” In L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911–1942, edited by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement, 131–44, 290–91. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.

Dickieson, Brenton D.G. “Befriending the Darkness: L.M. Montgomery’s Lived Theodicy in Anne’s House of Dreams.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 25 Oct 2021, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/Dickieson/Befriending-the-Darkness. 

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

MaudCast Media Contacts:

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ 

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ 

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ 

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/  

Guest Social Media Links:   

Twitter: @Laura_Learns

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.laurenson 

Instagram:  laurarobinson1928

Acadia U website: https://english.acadiau.ca/dr-laura-robinson.html 

Closing Quotation: 

“Wave and undertow, affirmation and undercutting: there is no clear end for a time or an idea or a book that people continue to read. Modernism celebrated fractured time, wounded time; Montgomery insisted on time’s deep continuities; she endorsed healing.” (Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, “Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts,” in L.M. Montgomery and Gender, ed. E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), p. 346).

Research References from the Show: 

Pike, E. Holly, and Laura M. Robinson, eds. L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.

Robinson, Laura M. “Kindred Spirits: Kinship and the Nature of Nature in Anne’s House of Dreams and The Blue Castle.” In L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), edited by Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell, 171–83, 240–41. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.

Pike, E. Holly. “Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction.” In L.M. Montgomery and Gender, edited by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson, 175–94. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.

Pike, E. Holly. “Reading the Book as Object and Thing in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Series.” In “L.M. Montgomery and Reading,” edited by Emily Woster and Kate Scarth. Special collection, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 15 December 2020. https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2021.0003. 

Montgomery, L.M. A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917. Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. The L.M. Montgomery Library.

Credits:

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with Allison McBain Hudson, a Canadian-Irish writer and Montgomery scholar. Following an MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature that focused on Montgomery’s rural Canadian romanticism in Anne of Green Gables and the Emily trilogy, Allison has moved on to PhD studies in literature at Dublin City University. Brenton and Allison discuss her research, how she moves from “metaphysical” ideas in Montgomery’s writings in her MA research, to the discovery of “physical” objects in her doctoral dissertation. In particular, Allison discusses her research in “material culture” in L.M. Montgomery’s novels--the tangible, tactile objects that make up the details of everyday life. These objects, like houses, books, portraits, mittens, and hanging hams provide atmosphere and setting in the novel, but they also provide connection points between the characters and carry other kinds of significance for the reader. While Allison and Brenton chat about the Emily trilogy throughout, their conversation about books ranges out into the fantastic, considering the “material culture” of objects like wardrobes, sewing machines, rings, and mundane portkeys in writers like C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Katherine Paterson, and Annie Dillard.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Guest Social Media Links:   

Twitter: @Nikiwan72

Facebook: Allison McBain Hudson

Instagram: @nikiwan72

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

Closing quotation: 

“[Jane] had been away from Lantern Hill for nine months, but now it seemed to her that she had never been away at all. She had been living here all along. It was her spirit’s home” (L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill (Seal Books, 1988), p.169).

Other quotations: 

“Our lives are characterised by innumerable encounters with objects…Objects are routinely, mundanely, part of everyday existence. Moreover, beyond this pragmatic view, even the most commonplace object has the capacity to symbolise the deepest human anxieties and aspirations…in important ways objects have a type of power over us…people require objects to understand and perform aspects of selfhood, and to navigate the terrain of culture more broadly” (Ian Woodward, Understanding Material Culture, p. vi).

“Emily had never seen a kitchen like this before. It had dark wooden walls and low ceiling, with black rafters crossing it, from which hung hams and sides of bacon and bunches of herbs and new socks and mittens, and many other things, the names and uses of which Emily could not imagine. The sanded floor was spotlessly white, but the boards had been scrubbed away through the years until the knots in them stuck up all over in funny little bosses, and in front of the stove they had sagged, making a queer, shallow little hollow” (L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon, ch. 6).

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Transcript

Hello kindred spirits, and welcome to MaudCast, the official podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, broadcasting from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.

In this age of dislocation and disarray, season one of the MaudCast was far richer than we could have expected. In a dozen episodes, our little podcast brought together Montgomery scholars from around the world, carrying on the work that the L.M. Montgomery Institute has done for more than a quarter of a century: promoting research in and celebration of the life, works, culture, and influence of our favourite Prince Edward Island-born, Canadian writer, Lucy Maud Montgomery. 

And we are pleased to announce that Season two is upon us! 

We are very much looking forward to welcoming to the microphone Montgomery readers from Prince Edward Island and across the world. Upcoming episodes include conversations about Montgomery’s poetry, new methods of reading her novels, writerly projects about Montgomery’s biography or questions about gender and culture, and considerations of the ways her work inspires in us an artistic voice or a sense of place. In season two, we will speak with scholars, poets, writers, artists, performers, and leaders in the Montgomery community --all in a quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery and join imaginative readers throughout the world.

We hope you will join us in this new bend in the road for the MaudCast. I am your host, Dr. Brenton Dickieson. From Technical Director Kristy McKinney and all of us at the MaudCast, we’ll see you soon.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: Abbey McRoberts

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Guest Links and Notes on the Conversation:

Bonnie’s Website: https://nonsensicaltimes.com/  

Domestic Art Project, Co-Curated by Bonnie J. Tulloch and Heidi Haering: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision-forum/domestic-art-project 

Bonnie J. Tulloch, Canadian "Anne-Girl[s]": Literary Descendents of Montgomery's Redheaded Heroine, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/tulloch/canadian-anne-girls

As noted in the podcast, Bonne’s research was supported by and IBBY Canada's 2013 Frances E. Russell Grant. 

Bonnie noted an evocative line from Anne on motherhood. Here is the full quotation from Anne of Ingleside, Chapter 40, where Christine is pressing Anne about whether she is really settled as a small-town doctor’s wife:

“You used to be quite ambitious, if I remember aright. Didn't you write some rather clever little things when you were at Redmond? A bit fantastic and whimsical, of course, but still . . ."

"I wrote them for the people who still believe in fairyland. There is a surprising lot of them, you know, and they like to get news from that country."

"And you've quite given it up?"

"Not altogether . . . but I'm writing living epistles now," said Anne, thinking of Jem and Co.

Christine stared, not recognizing the quotation….

Anne is probably referencing St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, which has become a literary byword in English history.  

It is worth noting that 2016 was Bonnie’s first Montgomery conference--not the first one. For this great conference in 2022 in its 15th iteration, see The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Biennial International Conference Call For Paper Proposals: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/lmmongtomery.ca/call-papers-lmmontgomery-revision   

Brenton’s Epperly-awarding winning paper is “Befriending the Darkness: L.M. Montgomery’s Popular Theodicy in Anne’s House of Dreams” and will appear in the near future in The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies.  

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye 

Closing quotation:

 “The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!” (Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, p. 364).

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Guest Social Media Links: 

Twitter https://twitter.com/LMMontgomeryLS, 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LMMontgomeryLS, 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lmmontgomerylitsociety/

Website: https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com/

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing quotation:

“I had a certain knack for choosing friends which I took as a matter of course but can now see to have been a very vital endowment” (L.M. Montgomery, 1933; originally discovered in the Kindred Spirits Magazine, ed. George Campbell; reprinted in Ben Lefebvre, The L.M Montgomery Reader, Vol. 1, A Life in Print,” 2013, 294).

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Rita Bode's Website: https://www.trentu.ca/english/faculty-research/rita-bode

The SHCY interview: https://shcy.pinecast.co/episode/ad71313719b84805/l-m-montgomery-and-the-matter-of-nature-s- 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing quotation:

“‘Well now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I’m proud of.’” (Anne of Green Gables, Ch. 36, p. 346 [Tundra edition]) 

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Jenny Litster’s Social Media Links: 

Instagram: @floramcflimsey

Twitter: @jennylitster

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing quotation:

“There can’t be any doubt that the exhortation to love our neighbour as ourselves is a proper and edifying one: but it is a hard thing to do when one has a neighbour like Susanna Johnson.” (“The After-Thanksgiving Story”)

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Rachel Dodge’s Website: www.racheldodge.com 

Rachel Dodge’s Social Media Links: 

Instagram: @kindredspiritbooks

Twitter: @RachelDodgeBks

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/racheldodgebooks

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/

Closing quotation:

“It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?” —Anne Shirley (AGG, Ch. 8)

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Contact Information for the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society

https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com

https://www.instagram.com/lmmlitsociety/ 

https://www.facebook.com/LMmontgomeryLS 

https://twitter.com/LMmontgomeryLS 

https://twitter.com/clsc429 

clsc123@gmail.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/

Closing quotation: “lovely quote here with reference”

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Researcher: Darriel Rolle

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/

Closing quotation: “The body grows slowly and steadily, but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. From that night Rilla Blythe's soul was the soul of a woman in its capacity for suffering, for strength, for endurance.” RIlla of Ingleside, ch. 14, “The Valley of Decision”

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever

Trinna S. Frever, “Adaptive Interplay: L.M. Montgomery, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf’s Shakespearean Sister” http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/pdf/l_m_montgomery.pdf

Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/

Trinna Frever’s Instagram: @trinna_writes

Trinna Frever’s website: https://trinnafrever.com/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing quotation: “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland” (The Story Girl, ch. 16, “The Ghostly Bell).

The Toni Morrison quotation can be found here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/. 

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever

Trinna S. Frever, “Adaptive Interplay: L.M. Montgomery, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf’s Shakespearean Sister” http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/pdf/l_m_montgomery.pdf

Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/

Trinna Frever’s Instagram: @trinna_writes

Trinna Frever’s website: https://trinnafrever.com/

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing quotation: “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland” (The Story Girl, ch. 16, “The Ghostly Bell).

The Toni Morrison quotation can be found here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/. 

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Website Photos: Anne Woster

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever

Dr. Scarth’s paper, “From Anne of Green Gables to Anne of the Suburbs: Lucy Maud Montgomery Reimagines Home in Anne of the Island”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09699082.2017.1403068

Montgomery’s PEI Map: https://lmmontgomery.ca/map

L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision_cfp

Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/

Kate Scarth twitter: @katescarth

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Website Photos: Anne Woster

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision_cfp

Laura Leden’s instagram: @laurairenel

The L.M. Montgomery Nordic Instagram: @lmmontgomerynordicLaura Leden’s website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/laura-leden

Laura’s Blog Post, “The Nordic Vision of L.M. Montgomery in Book Covers on Instagram”: 

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Closing Quotation: “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think” (Anne of Green Gables, ch. 19) 

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. 

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Website Photos: Anne Woster

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/

L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision-forum

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Lesley’s Latest Publications:

• Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature, co-edited with Leyli Jamali
• L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942, co-edited with Rita Bode

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In 1922, not long after she finished writing one of her most personal and profound novels, Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maud Montgomery made a diary entry about a fantastic new technology: the radio. Montgomery talked about this wonderful invention that allows you to hear broadcasts of sermons and speeches and concerts from the great cities of North America. Though fascinated, Maud was also a bit resistant, worried that this would be another device that would fill up her very precious time in unmeaningful ways.

When Maud finally heard a broadcast a few months later, she was still unsettled by the idea of the radio. The experience of it, though, was “marvellous.” Maud predicted accurately that the radio would “revolutionize the world in another generation.” Though Maud longed for the old days in unhurried Prince Edward Island—the stage for many of her beloved characters—she imagines a not-too-distant future when letters will be obsolete, and the radio will be how the world bridges the distance between one another.

If we can use our imaginations and extend her image of “radio” to digital spaces, Maud was able to predict a bit of our generation in a way that very few have. Since that time nearly a century ago, L.M. Montgomery’s stories have filled the world with wonder and joy, and we thought it was time to share scholarship and imaginative discovery of Maud’s life and writings in our newest form of the radio.

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, here on the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. For more than a quarter of a century, the L.M. Montgomery Institute has promoted research and celebration of the life, works, culture, and influence of our favourite Prince Edward Island-born, Canadian writer. I am your MaudCast host, Dr. Brenton Dickieson, and I hope you can join us here in the future Maud glimpsed, as we discuss the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery with leading scholars, local researchers, and readers from around the world.

Show Notes

The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.

The MaudCast Team

Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson

Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth

Technical Director: Kristy McKinney

Audio Engineering: Nicolas Dickieson

Visual Design: Heidi Haering

Website Photos: Anne Woster

Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane

Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast

L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/

L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI

Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana

Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com 

Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye

Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners.

The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.