Excited to receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Memorial University of Newfoundland on October 20th, 2022!
-Betsy
Coming in June 2022 — “Passionate Vision”!
In thematically linked presentations, two keynote speakers Elizabeth R. Epperly and Eri Muraoka contend that learning demands revision, for artists themselves and for those who study them and their work. Click here for more.
Missing Budge Wilson
Melanie Fishbane has done a lovely job, for the LMMI, in capturing Budge’s inimitable spirit!
CBC Compass Interview
Amazing how an interviewer can compress 35 minutes of interview into less than 3 minutes of video! Beth Cavert and I are so excited about the discovery and also about putting the postcards into the full context of the letters (Beth’s Complete Correspondence will do this).
-Betsy
Click here for the video: Lucy Maud Montgomery. Long-lost letters. History. Intrigue.
Long-lost L.M. Montgomery postcards discovered, donated back to P.E.I.
– Even though she knew what they were, Epperly said turning over the postcards and seeing Montgomery’s handwriting was “this shock … it’s her handwriting. Because she has very distinctive, and sometimes very difficult, handwriting, and to see that and to see the ink changing where she dipped the pen to write, it’s like treasure to find this.”-
Celebrating 50 Years of UPEI
50 Years, 50 Voices
Click here to see a collection of video vignettes produced by Robertson Library staff, highlighting individual experiences (including Dr. Epperly’s) and memories of UPEI.
Valentine’s Day 2020: A Close Reading of Imagining Anne
CM: Canadian Review of Materials (Volume XXVI/Issue 22 – February 14/2020)
Click here to read Ruth Latta’s review of
Imagining Anne: L. M. Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks
First article in the inaugural issue of Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies:
Click here to read my first article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: Reading Time: L.M. Montgomery and the “Alembic of Fiction”
-Betsy
New Montgomery Studies Journal Honours its Honorary Editors
Click here to read more about it: http://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/node/81
Hearing “from” 50 Years Earlier
Matt Rainnie of CBC Radio Mainstreet, Charlottetown, interviewed me as the first student to register at the newly created University of Prince Edward Island. Here it is:
-Betsy
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 