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Article: The readings of a writer: the literary landscape created by LM Montgomery's love of literature (abridged).(Transcript)
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- Kindred Spirits
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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... This afternoon I was re-reading 'Undine'--finding to my delight that its charm was every whit as potent as when, years ago, behind that old brown desk in the little white schoolhouse, it lured me into By-path Meadow and opened a world of fancy to my delighted eyes.
Selected Journals of LM Montgomery, Vol. 1
The people, places, and events that pepper the books we read embed themselves in our imaginations and manifest themselves in the things we do, say and write. For an author such as Montgomery who read avidly and enjoyed learning throughout her life, what she read had a strong and obvious effect on what and how she wrote. The landscape of ...