THE L.M. MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE
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The L.M. Montgomery Institute [LMMI] is dedicated to helping students and scholars learn about and study L.M. Montgomery's life, works, and influence. The Institute is a centre for Montgomery studies with a focus on academic scholarship and a centre for the promotion of L.M. Montgomery with a focus on education, teaching, and increasing awareness of the author. The L.M. Montgomery Institute is housed in the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), a post-secondary institution whose forebears were St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College (Montgomery's own alma mater).
L.M. Montgomery's appeal crosses the boundaries of time, age, culture, and gender. Her works are translated into more than a dozen languages; she inspires serious scholarly work and maintains international best-selling status with her shrewd portraits, her minute chronicling of Island and Canadian customs, and her compelling recreations of Island land and seascapes. The L.M. Montgomery Institute pays tribute to Montgomery's achievement and provides a centre for the dynamic research that is focused on her works, career, and Island home.
Montgomery's influence is felt today in almost every area of life on Prince Edward Island -- in education, research, the arts and theatre communities, tourism, land and building preservation, crafts councils, private businesses, and government policies and decisions. Internationally today Montgomery's works are recognized as touchstones for Canadian culture. Hundreds of thousands of people, directly or indirectly influenced by the way of life depicted in Montgomery's writing, visit Prince Edward Island each year.
The LMMI was established in 1993 through the leadership of founder Dr. Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Dr. Epperly is Professor Emerita of English and past President of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Among the many materials that the L. M. Montgomery Institute is responsible for are first editions of Montgomery's books original copies of Montgomery's stories and poems published in her lifetime, and artifacts associated with L. M. Montgomery herself as well as her Montgomery, Macdonald, Macneill, Campbell, Webb, and Woolner families. Most of these materials have been donated to the Institute by family members and Montgomery enthusiasts for safekeeping, maintaining, conserving, and use by scholars and others interested in studying the life and work of L. M. Montgomery. The L. M. Montgomery collection is housed in the Special Collections department of the University of Prince Edward Island Library.
These links explain the LMM treasures at UPEI:
Ryrie-Campbell Collection
Collecting LM Montgomery at the University of Prince Edward Island - presentation by Simon Lloyd
KindredSpaces
For more information on the L. M. Montgomery Institute, see https://lmmontgomery.ca
Carrying out these responsibilities can be expensive, as you can imagine. That is why the Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute was formed in 2012 -- to raise funds to ensure that the Institute can continue to keep the collection in good condition, to add to the collection, and to continue to make it available for all of us to study and appreciate.
The Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute raises funds through donations and as well as silent auctions at LMMI conferences (see The Shining Scroll, 2012, 2104, 2016, 2018).
We invite you to contribute to these efforts. You can be assured that 100% of your donation will be used for adding to and maintaining items in the Institute’s L. M. Montgomery collection.
The link for donating on-line is https://go.upei.ca/donate/
For a list of those who have already donated, see the LMMI Friends Donor page: https://kindredspaces.ca/community/donors
With our sincere thanks,
The Friends of the LMMI Board
FriendsofLMMI@gmail.com
(Linda Boutilier, Vanessa Brown, Mary Beth Cavert, Carolyn Strom Collins, Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, Melanie Fishbane, Ann Johnson, Lynda Leader, Earle Lockerby, Kate Sutherland, Kimberly Toombs, Sandy Wagner, Melanie Whitfield, Joanne Lebold, Dr. Emily Woster)
For more information on The Friends of the LMMI see https://lmmontgomery.ca/community/friends
DONATIONS TO THE L.M. MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE
Web Site
The L.M. Montgomery Institute [LMMI] is dedicated to helping students and scholars learn about and study L.M. Montgomery's life, works, and influence. The Institute is a centre for Montgomery studies with a focus on academic scholarship and a centre for the promotion of L.M. Montgomery with a focus on education, teaching, and increasing awareness of the author. The L.M. Montgomery Institute is housed in the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), a post-secondary institution whose forebears were St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College (Montgomery's own alma mater).
L.M. Montgomery's appeal crosses the boundaries of time, age, culture, and gender. Her works are translated into more than a dozen languages; she inspires serious scholarly work and maintains international best-selling status with her shrewd portraits, her minute chronicling of Island and Canadian customs, and her compelling recreations of Island land and seascapes. The L.M. Montgomery Institute pays tribute to Montgomery's achievement and provides a centre for the dynamic research that is focused on her works, career, and Island home.
Montgomery's influence is felt today in almost every area of life on Prince Edward Island -- in education, research, the arts and theatre communities, tourism, land and building preservation, crafts councils, private businesses, and government policies and decisions. Internationally today Montgomery's works are recognized as touchstones for Canadian culture. Hundreds of thousands of people, directly or indirectly influenced by the way of life depicted in Montgomery's writing, visit Prince Edward Island each year.
The LMMI was established in 1993 through the leadership of founder Dr. Elizabeth Rollins Epperly. Dr. Epperly is Professor Emerita of English and past President of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Among the many materials that the L. M. Montgomery Institute is responsible for are first editions of Montgomery's books original copies of Montgomery's stories and poems published in her lifetime, and artifacts associated with L. M. Montgomery herself as well as her Montgomery, Macdonald, Macneill, Campbell, Webb, and Woolner families. Most of these materials have been donated to the Institute by family members and Montgomery enthusiasts for safekeeping, maintaining, conserving, and use by scholars and others interested in studying the life and work of L. M. Montgomery. The L. M. Montgomery collection is housed in the Special Collections department of the University of Prince Edward Island Library.
These links explain the LMM treasures at UPEI:
Ryrie-Campbell Collection
Collecting LM Montgomery at the University of Prince Edward Island - presentation by Simon Lloyd
KindredSpaces
For more information on the L. M. Montgomery Institute, see https://lmmontgomery.ca
Carrying out these responsibilities can be expensive, as you can imagine. That is why the Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute was formed in 2012 -- to raise funds to ensure that the Institute can continue to keep the collection in good condition, to add to the collection, and to continue to make it available for all of us to study and appreciate.
The Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute raises funds through donations and as well as silent auctions at LMMI conferences (see The Shining Scroll, 2012, 2104, 2016, 2018).
We invite you to contribute to these efforts. You can be assured that 100% of your donation will be used for adding to and maintaining items in the Institute’s L. M. Montgomery collection.
The link for donating on-line is https://go.upei.ca/donate/
For a list of those who have already donated, see the LMMI Friends Donor page: https://kindredspaces.ca/community/donors
With our sincere thanks,
The Friends of the LMMI Board
FriendsofLMMI@gmail.com
(Linda Boutilier, Vanessa Brown, Mary Beth Cavert, Carolyn Strom Collins, Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, Melanie Fishbane, Ann Johnson, Lynda Leader, Earle Lockerby, Kate Sutherland, Kimberly Toombs, Sandy Wagner, Melanie Whitfield, Joanne Lebold, Dr. Emily Woster)
For more information on The Friends of the LMMI see https://lmmontgomery.ca/community/friends
DONATIONS TO THE L.M. MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE
- Carolyn Strom Collins and Christy Woster compiled and edited a new collection of L.M. Montgomery short stories called After Many Years: Twenty-one Long-Lost Stories by L. M. Montgomery. It was published first by the L.M. Montgomery Institute and Nimbus Publishing printed a second edition in May 2017. All royalties from this book will be donated to the LMMI.
- The Friends of the L.M. Montgomery Institute have donated funds to help restore the landscape at Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish Home after it was damaged during Tropical Storm Dorian. Read about it in The Shining Scroll 2019, 2020.
- A very special handwritten letter from L. M. Montgomery to British composer and music educator, Clara Angela (C.A.) Macirone (1821-1914), came onto the market and the board members of the "Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute" voted to purchase the letter for the Institute's collection. The letter was written from Cavendish in 1910, soon after the publication of Anne of Green Gables, and is much more personal and expansive than Montgomery's usual response to "fan letters." The funds for this acquisition come from many small donors around the world who are readers of L.M. Montgomery.
In 1910, Montgomery was living with her 86 year old grandmother, Lucy, in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. She was newly famous and well-paid -- "I live in a little Canadian country place, very much like the 'Avonlea' of my book. Life here is very quiet and simple, but I like it and find all in it that I could find anywhere I think," she wrote. LMM mentioned that her grandmother came from England "and I always feel a 'homey' interest in your wonderful old land which I hope some day to visit." She did make one visit on her honeymoon in 1911. Macirone asked if she might dedicate one of her songs to Montgomery and LMM responded that she would be "most pleased and honored."
"Clara Angela Macirone is one woman who participated publicly in Victorian music culture throughout the period. A music teacher and composer of considerable fame, Macirone also contributed essays and reviews on music to the periodical press throughout her life. Born in 1821, she was educated at the Royal Academy in singing, pianoforte, and composition, and went on to become a professor of pianoforte there. Her songs gained popularity and recognition after being performed at the Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall, and her composition “Sir Knight” was the first music heard by Queen Victoria over the telephone in 1878."
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Macirone was also a frequent contributor to one of Montgomery's favorite publications, The Girl's Own Paper.