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For many years, my family has kept a troubling secret. What has made things even more difficult is the fact that the person it involves was not only my grandmother, but one of Canada’s most beloved authors, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables, is still a bestseller after 100 years. In addition to Anne, my grandmother wrote 19 other novels, personal journals and hundreds of short stories and poems. As well, she has been the subject of several biographical studies.
Despite her great success, it is known that she suffered from depression, that she was isolated, sad and filled with worry and dread for much of her life. But our family has never spoken publicly about the extent of her illness.
What has never been revealed is that L.M. Montgomery took her own life at the age of 67 through a drug overdose.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
When’s the memorial? Since my cousin used to play Anne Shirley in the musical, LMM’s practically family.
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
hasn’t everyone’s cousin played anne shirley in some musical or another? Aren’t we all family, then?
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Gilbert Blythe is a douchebag and a pathetic troll.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Hemingway and now Montgomery; the arts are heavy, walk gently.