Montgomery's own thoughts on Anne
of Green Gables:
"To-day has been, as Anne herself would say 'an epoch in my life.' My
book came to-day, fresh from the publishers. I candidly confess that it
was for me a proud, wonderful, thrilling moment! There in my hand lay the
material realization of all the dreams and hopes and ambitions and struggles
of my whole conscious existence - my first book! Not a great book at all
- but mine, mine mine - something to which I had given birth - something
which, but for me, would never have existed."
- LMM's Journals, Saturday,
June 20, 1908.
"I had a letter from Page to-day asking me for my photo and a personal sketch
of how 'Anne' came to be written to give 'inquisitive editors.' It seems
that Anne is a big success. It is a 'best seller' and is in
its fifth edition - I cannot realize this. My strongest feeling seems to
be incredulity. I can't believe that such a simple little tale,
written in and of a simple PEI farming settlement, with a juvenile audience in
view, can really have scored out in the busy world."
- LMM's Journals, October 15, 1908.
"I thought girls in their teens might like it. But grandparents, school
and college boys, old pioneers in the Australian bush, girls in India, missionaries
in China, monks in remote monasteries, premiers of Great Britain, and red-headed
people all over the world have written to me, telling me how they loved Anne
and her successors."
-LMM
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