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Available Early!

Although the paperback edition of The Blythes Are Quoted and the new edition of Rilla of Ingleside aren’t technically scheduled for publication until 26 October, copies are already available through Amazon.ca! I’m also told by my local independent bookstore, Words … Continue reading

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Upcoming Conference Presentation

I’ll be giving a paper at next weekend’s Conference on Editorial Problems at the University of Toronto. This year’s conference is hosted by the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project. My paper, “Editing L.M. Montgomery across the Scholarly/Trade Divide,” discusses … Continue reading

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The Blythes Are Quoted Reviewed in Canadian Literature

Gisele M. Baxter’s review of The Blythes Are Quoted and of Philip Roy’s book Journey to Atlantis appears in Canadian Literature #205, the Summer 2010 issue, available now! Read it here.

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Blythes Notes 2

When putting together The Blythes Are Quoted near the end of her life, L.M. Montgomery repeated the strategy she had used when putting together Chronicles of Avonlea three decades earlier: she rewrote existing stories about unrelated characters and locations in … Continue reading

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Advance Copies Received

A little while ago today I received from Penguin Canada advance copies of Rilla of Ingleside and of the paperback edition of The Blythes Are Quoted, both of which go on sale on October 26. They both look wonderful, and … Continue reading

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Blythes Notes 1

The Blythes Are Quoted contains forty-one poems attributed to Anne Shirley Blythe and to her son Walter Blythe, who in Rilla of Ingleside goes off to fight in the Great War. Many of these poems were published in periodicals under … Continue reading

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New Facebook Pages!

Announcing new Facebook pages for The Blythes Are Quoted and Rilla of Ingleside! Get all the latest information about these new editions, chat with the editors and with fellow readers, and help spread the word!

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Cover art for Annan jäähyväiset

Here at last is the cover art for the Finnish edition of The Blythes Are Quoted, titled Annan jäähyväiset and published today by WSOY.

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Announcement: a new, restored edition of Rilla of Ingleside

I’m pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a new, restored edition of L.M. Montgomery’s First World War novel, Rilla of Ingleside, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie, which will be published on 26 October 2010 by Viking Canada. … Continue reading

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Catalogue copy for Annan jäähyväiset

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, The Blythes Are Quoted will be published in Finnish by WSOY as Annan jäähyväiset (literally, Anne’s Farewell). My colleague Vappu Kannas generously mailed me a copy of the publisher’s catalogue as well as … Continue reading

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