Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. L.C. Page & Company, 1908, p. 77.
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Many people would say the same about the present period.
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.