L.M. Montgomery 
Chronicles of Avonlea 

Chronicles of Avonlea – L. M. Montgomery – Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. Sometimes marketed as a book in the Anne Shirley series, Anne plays only a minor role in the book: out of the 12 stories in the collection, she stars in only one (‘The Hurrying of Ludovic’), and has a small supporting role in another (‘The Courting of Prissy Strong’). She is otherwise only briefly mentioned in passing in five other stories: ‘Each in His Own Tongue’, ”Little Joscelyn”, ‘The Winning of Lucinda’, ”Quarantine at Alexander Abraham’s’ and ‘The End of a Quarrel’.

Over de auteur

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.