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

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.
LMMI Dr. Elizabeth R. Epperly Award for Outstanding Early Career Paper
I was thrilled when the L.M. Institute committee, in celebrating its 25th anniversary and unbeknownst to me, decided to name one of its new awards in my honour! This photograph, by Anne Victoria Photography, shows the adjudicating committee and first recipient for the first-ever ” Dr. Elizabeth R. Epperly Award for Outstanding Early Career Paper.”
-Betsy

photo credit: Anne Victoria Photography
From left to right: Dr. Emily Woster, conference co-chair and Visiting Scholar of the LMMI; the Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of PEI; myself; Dr. Laura Robinson, conference co-chair and past LMMI Visiting Scholar; Bonnie Tulloch, University of British Columbia, first award recipient; Dr. Kate Scarth, UPEI Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies, Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture.
Book Signing at the L.M. Montgomery Institute conference
Three long-time Montgomery scholars and authors celebrate books and reading at the 13th biennial international L.M. Montgomery Institute conference at UPEI in Charlottetown, PEI, on June 22, 2018: Drs. Elizabeth Waterston, Mary Rubio, and Elizabeth Epperly. The theme of the conference was “L.M. Montgomery and Reading.” Elizabeth Waterston was signing copies of her recent book Readying Rilla and Betsy was signing copies of Power Notes: Leadership by Analogy and the children’s book illustrated by her sister (Carolyn Epperly) Summer in the Land of Anne.
UPEI’s L.M. Montgomery Institute turns 25 today!
Happy 25th Anniversary, L.M. Montgomery Institute!
Twenty-five years ago today (April 26, 1993) we launched the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI with a huge “hooray”!
-Betsy
https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/happy-25th-anniversary-lm-montgomery-institute
Keynote Speaker for the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 13th Biennial Conference
Betsy will be featured again as a keynote speaker at the13th biennial L.M. Montgomery Institute’s International Conference, L.M. Montgomery and Reading (June 21-24, 2018).
https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2018/keynote-speakers
LMMI celebrates publications by and inspired by L.M. Montgomery
Betsy pictured at the book signing during UPEI Reunion Weekend.
https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/exciting-news-lmmi-new-chair-announced-book-launches-and-more