Supplementary Material
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CBC Archives. Beyond Green Gables: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Themes in Montgomery's Fiction
• Canadian Home Front in World War I
• Correspondence
• Loss (loss of family, friends)
• Orphans
• The Victorian Age
• The one-room schoolhouse
• Life in rural Prince Edward Island
• Friendship
• Discovery of self, identity
• Imagination
• Love of one's home
• Growing up (challenges and triumphs), also childhood
• Role of women in late 19th and early 20th centuries
Themes in Montgomery's Non-Fiction
• Life writing (scrapbooking, memoir writing, journalling, and letter writing)
• The creative process. How do authors write?
• World War I from a Canadian woman's perspective
• The Boer War
• Growing up in rural Prince Edward Island
• Challenges faced by a woman writer in early 20th Century
• Identity
• Friendship
• Life as a minister's wife
• Changing roles in life (childhood, marriage, motherhood)
• Observation of people and places
• Love of home (in her case Prince Edward Island)
• Living with a family member's mental illness
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