Emily of New Moon
The novel Emily of New Moon is the first novel of a series by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.[1] The novel was published in 1923, fifteen years after she published Anne of Green Gables.
The heroines of both novels are spirited orphans, who struggle to find acceptance.[1] Both orphans grew up in Canada's smallest Province, Prince Edward Island, where Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up. But Emily is a girl who wants to grow up to be a writer.[2]
On the 100th anniversary of the publishing of Emily of New Moon', a granddaughter of Montgomery, Kate Macdonald Butler, said it was her grandmother's favourite book.[1] She said Emily's life more closely resembled her own. While commentators find Emily's character more complex and more interesting, the book and its two sequels never came close to the popularity of Montgomery's Anne series. Although Montgomery swore a "dark and deadly vow" that she was done with Anne, "forever", she did in fact write several more novels about Anne when sales of Emily books were disappointing. The Emily books did, in fact, fall out of print.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Elisabeth Egan (2023-11-15). "We All Love 'Anne of Green Gables.' What About 'Emily of New Moon'?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-31.
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Perri Klass (1992-05-17). "Stories for Girls About Girls Who Write Stories". The New York Times. p. G1. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-31.
'I am done with 'Anne' forever -- I swear it as a dark and deadly vow,' Maud Montgomery wrote in 1920. 'I want to create a new heroine now -- she is already in embryo in my mind -- she has been christened for years. Her name is Emily. She has black hair and purplish gray eyes. I want to tell folks about her.'