Author Archives: Benjamin
Announcing The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1
I’m very pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of my next book, The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print, which will be published by University of Toronto Press in October 2013. It will be followed by two additional … Continue reading
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Review of Complete Journals 1889–1900
“Lucy Maud of Macneill Farm,” my review of The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889–1900, edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston, appears in today’s issue of The Globe and Mail.
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Call for Papers: L.M. Montgomery and Cultural Memory
Although the ninth biennial international conference at the University of Prince Edward Island is still a few weeks away, I’m pleased to circulate the call for papers for a collection of essays on the conference theme, to be edited by … Continue reading
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Publication of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pioneer Girl
It’s been announced recently that the South Dakota State Historical Society Press is preparing an annotated edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s memoir “Pioneer Girl,” with plans to publish the book in June 2013. It’s being prepared by Pamela Smith Hill, … Continue reading
New Collection on Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature
I’m pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of my collection of essays Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations, which will be published in the Children’s Literature and Culture series by Routledge in Fall 2012. This book offers new … Continue reading
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Remembrance Day Blogs: Rilla and Walter
In honour of Remembrance Day, two recent blog entries have appeared discussing L.M. Montgomery’s depiction of the Great War in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted. First, Christine Chettle discusses Walter Blythe’s poems “The Piper” and “The Aftermath” … Continue reading
Rilla in Paperback!
I received my copies this week of the paperback edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside, which I edited jointly with Andrea McKenzie and which was published in hardcover last October. The official street date is next Tuesday, 1 November … Continue reading
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Anne of Prince Edward Island
In a journal entry dated March 1910, Montgomery mentioned that she had recently received a copy of the Swedish translation of Anne of Green Gables, which she found “interesting as a curiosity,” not because of the translated text but because … Continue reading
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Rilla of Ingleside in Paperback!
I’m pleased to announce that the unabridged and fully annotated edition of Rilla of Ingleside, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie, will be published in paperback by Penguin Canada in November 2011! Pre-order your copy today! Rilla of Ingleside—originally … Continue reading
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Jeunesse 3.1 Now Available
The Summer 2011 issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Volume 3, number 1), published by the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, is now available. It contains an editorial by Mavis … Continue reading
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