Happy 150th Birthday, L.M. Montgomery!

May 1, 2024Leave a comment

2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Montgomery’s birth, and the L.M. Montgomery Institute is broadcasting 150 special tributes to Montgomery over the course of the year, culminating in a huge celebration on Montgomery’s actual birthday, November 30th.

To mark the 31st anniversary of the launching of the L.M. Montgomery Institute in April of 1993, the LMMI invited me (founder of the LMMI), the Chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute management committee (Philip Smith), a former committee member and long-time Montgomery enthusiast (Rosemary Herbert), and former Senator and Premier Catherine Callbeck (who supported the launching) to offer our tributes to and about Montgomery. https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/news/Maud150/Anniversary-LMMI-Launch

All of the tributes will be posted here: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/maud150

Hooray for Emily of New Moon at 100!

November 17, 2023May 2, 2024Leave a comment

Elisabeth Egan of the New York Times asked such good questions in our email and telephone interviews. I am so glad the LMMI got into this piece!

AGG exhibit gets great media coverage!

February 7, 2023Leave a comment

Emily Woster (curator) and I (contributing consultant) are thrilled with the interest in the annemanuscript.ca site since its launching on January 19, 2022.

Some 10,000 people from 50+ countries have visited the site so far.

See articles in Quill & Quire, the Globe and Mail, CTV, CBC, and in Emily Woster’s hometown newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota. The exhibit has been noted on sites in Japan, Ukraine and Poland.

The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne | Exhibition Opening

January 20, 2023Leave a comment

Emily gives a wonderful introduction to the site at the official launching on January 19, 2023, at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, with a packed room and people linked in from all over the world. Click here to watch the exhibition opening.

At long last! The digitized AGG manuscript is launched!

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023Leave a comment

Emily Woster (curator) and I (contributing consultant) had so much fun working on this for the past two and a half years. Click here for the site: The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne

News about the honorary degree from Memorial

October 24, 2022January 20, 2023Leave a comment

UPEI kindly shared news of the honorary doctorate. Click here to read their announcement.

Celebration Day Memorial University

October 12, 2022Leave a comment

Excited to receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Memorial University of Newfoundland on October 20th, 2022!

-Betsy

Click here to read the announcement.

Coming in June 2022 — “Passionate Vision”!

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022Leave a comment

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.

Click here for conference registration information.

CBC Compass Interview

July 15, 2020August 16, 2020Leave a comment

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.

July 12, 2020July 12, 2020Leave a comment

– 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.”-

Click here to read the full CBC story.

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