{"product_id":"lucy-maud-montgomery-the-gift-of-wings-9780385667609","title":"Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings","description":"Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery - her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased - are only part of the material gathered in a journey to understand Montgomery that took Rubio to Poland and the highlands of Scotland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Montgomery's apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her passion-filled adolescence and young adulthood, to her legal fights as world-famous author, to her shattering experiences with motherhood and as wife to a deeply troubled man, this fascinating, intimate narrative of her life will engage and delight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Henley Rubio is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. She co-edited \u003cb\u003eThe Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e (five volumes, 1985-2004), co-authored \u003cb\u003eWriting a Life: L.M. Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e, and edited \u003cb\u003eHarvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e. Her most recent book is the \u003cb\u003eNorton Critical Edition of Anne of Green Gables\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323973538066,"sku":"9780385667609","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d3a5bec-fa07-419e-9800-c4c881577068.jpg?v=1727663109","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lucy-maud-montgomery-the-gift-of-wings-9780385667609","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}