– 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.”-
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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
Reimagining Imagining Anne
A CBC story about how and why Dr. Epperly reimagined Imagining Anne: L.M. Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-resissue-imagining-anne-1.5236146
Imagining Anne – The Buzz
New Nimbus Publishing edition introduced in the Island’s July Buzz: https://buzzpei.com/imagining-anne/
The launch for the Scrapbook is fast approaching!
In the PEI Buzz : https://buzzpei.com/imagining-anne/
In the UPEI News: https://www.upei.ca/communications/news/2019/07/dr-elizabeth-epperly-launch-compilation-lm-montgomerys-scrapbooks
LMMI’s New On-Line Open-Access Journal
On June 5th I got this wonderful piece of news from the editors, Dr. Kate Scarth and Dr Emily Woster, of the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s new on-line, open-access journal:
“We’re delighted to announce that the journal is now live at journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca!
Thanks to all of you for your work on and support of the journal. On the website you’ll find our Welcome Message, a video announcing the journal, an article by Elizabeth Epperly (“Reading Time: L.M. Montgomery and the ‘Alembic of Fiction'”), and an article by Julie Sellers (“‘A Good Imagination Gone Wrong’: Reading Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel”), as well as the static content that many of you have given feedback on. Acknowledgments are here. There’s more content coming soon!
Just a reminder that the journal accepts and publishes submissions on a rolling basis so keep those submissions coming and encourage your colleagues to submit too.
Thanks for all,
Kate and Emily”
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 