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The L.M. Montgomery Institute is pleased to congratulate our 2009/2010 Visiting Scholar, Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre, on the succesful launch of The Blythes are Quoted. Montgomery's final book had previously been published only in expurgated form (as The Road to Yesterday), and a complete version of the work was unavailable to the public until Dr. Lefebvre prepared Montgomery's original manuscript for publication by Viking Canada this fall. The book has already garnered considerable media attention and favourable reviews.

Charlottetown book collectors Frank and Juanita Lechowick have launched a new book, A collector's guide to L.M. Montgomery firsts.

From the launch announcement:

"In the course of research in libraries and used book stores from Charlottetown to Victoria, the authors have discovered the points of Montgomery’s original editions, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939).  A Collector’s Guide to L. M. Montgomery Firsts presents their findings systematically, with photographs and descriptions of each of the 39 first editions."

For P.E.I. orders, contact:

Frank Lechowick

falechowick@hotmail.com

Due to an unexpected technological difficulty, Conference co-chairs Benjamin Lefebvre and Jean Mitchell are offering a five-day extension to everyone interested in submitting a proposal to the L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature conference, to be hosted by the L.M. Montgomery Institute and held at the University of Prince Edward Island. Please send your abstracts and full contact information in the body of an e-mail to lmmi@upei.ca by Monday, 21 September at the very latest.

All friends of Maud and the Institute are warmly invited to a special fundraising performance of the Montgomery Theatre's wonderful new production of The Fourposter, set for Friday, July 24th. The evening will open at 7pm with a short talk by our new Visiting Scholar, Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre, on Montgomery's marriage, in keeping with the entertaining and intimate portrait of wedlock offered in The Fourposter. 

Proceeds from the evening's ticket sales go to support the work of the Institute, so book now (details below) for an enjoyable and enlightening occassion in support of a worthy cause.

Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre of Waterloo, Ontario, has been appointed the 2009 Visiting Scholar for the L.M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI) at the University of Prince Edward Island, announced Institute chair Mark Leggott.

Lefebvre will work with the LMMI’s governing committee to facilitate and expand scholarship about L.M. Montgomery, P.E.I.’s most famous author, and her contemporaries.

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July 7, 2009

PUBLIC INVITED TO JAPANESE READING OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI -- The Confederation Centre Public Library is pleased to announce that Mr. Haruo Matsumaru, Reading Instructor at the ASAHI Culture School in Tokyo, will be giving a Japanese reading of passages from the L.M. Montgomery novel Anne of Green Gables.

Mr. Matsumaru will be accompanied by his colleague, Ms. Sayuri Nishikawa, who is also a Reading Instructor at the ASAHI Culture School. The event will take place Friday, July 10, at 2 p.m. in the
Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Julia Lenardon, an actor from the Montgomery Theatre in Cavendish, will be on hand to recite the same passages in English.