Montgomery saw a trap door in the church's ceiling, which led her to wonder why the minister did not just get a ladder to retrieve her mother from the church's ceiling. During a church service, Montgomery asked her aunt where her dead mother was, leading her to point upwards. Her imaginary friends were named Katie Maurice and Lucy Gray and lived in the 'fairy room' behind the bookcase in the drawing room. She created imaginary friends and worlds to cope with her loneliness, and Montgomery credited this time of her life with developing her creativity. Despite having relatives nearby, much of her childhood was spent alone.

Montgomery's early life in Cavendish was very lonely. From then on Maud was raised by her grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolner Macneill, in the community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. When Maud was seven, her father moved to Prince Albert, North-West Territories (now Prince Albert, Saskatchewan). Stricken with grief, her father, Hugh John Montgomery (1841-1900), placed Maud in her maternal grandparents' custody, though he remained in the vicinity. Her mother, Clara Woolner Macneill Montgomery (1853-1876), died of tuberculosis (TB) when Maud was 21 months old. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island on November 30, 1874. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, is responsible for the scholarly inquiry into the life, works, culture, and influence of L. Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.

Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.

Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L.

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