Why I Love Lucy Maud (berfrois.com)

I didn't recognize the name in the title. In case others don't either: This is about reading the journals of a successful female Canadian author whose books you have likely heard of.

The writing of Carol Volkart is itlelf so profound and seducive. As if she had managed with success to walk into lucy Maud pathway.

A Spiritual tribute

I guess the author of this article would leave their spouse on first sight of trouble. Nice to see how loyality changed in the last 100 years.

Montgomery's biography like that of L. M. Alcott, M. W. Shelley, and M. de Cervantes, makes for a more interesting read than any of the characters they created. Worth seeking out.

This is an interesting article, but it seems a little vampirish. It seems to consider her life only as the mechanism to provide an excellent plot for her diaries, which rubs me the wrong way. I know, she's dead, it doesn't affect her — but it still seems like too literary an appreciation of the real and unpleasant life of another human being.