This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital
standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The author Lucy Maud Montgomery
created another and better-known representative of Canadian girlhood in Anne of Green Gables
and all the subsequent Anne books but Emily was closer to her own heart. Like Anne Emily is a
strong-minded gifted imaginative child left alone and unprotected in a harsh world who is
taken in by adults who are at least initially cold and unloving. Both girls grow up amid the
beauties of Prince Edward Island both keenly sensitive to natural splendors and highly
fanciful not to say occasionally precious about assigning names to lakes and trees and
identifying spirits and fairies in their surroundings. Anne is an original and spunky girl
with a certain amount of talent for writing verses and romantic tales but Emily is a writer.
In the celebrated Emily trilogy of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume Montgomery
draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl's life on Prince Edward Island. The twin
threads of bright and dark love and cruelty hope and despair intertwine in a pattern as
significant as it is enduring. In the second volume Emily Climbs Lucy Maud Montgomery traces
the often stormy course of Emily Starr's life as she moves from the world of childhood into
that of school and adolescence. Emily's Quest is the last of the Emily trilogy. After finishing
Emily Climbs Montgomery suspended writing Emily's Quest and published The Blue Castle she
resumed writing and published in 1927. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942) was a Canadian
author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went
on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories 500 poems and 30 essays.
