Lucy Maud Montgomery`s Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Her mother passed away before little Maud was two years old, and she was gone to be raised by her maternal grandparents, whom she later characterized as stern and reserved. When she was six, her father gone the Island to begin a new life in western Canada. Maud lived with his second family in Saskatchewan for a year during her mid-teens but returned to PEI after realizing that her stepmother valued her primarily as unpaid domestic labor.

Montgomery trained as an educator and taught college in a number of Island communities until 1898, when she once again returned to Cavendish after the loss of her grandfather, to ensure that her grandmother could remain in the family home. These experiences clearly inflected the story of Anne of Green Gables, published by the firm of LC Page in Boston in 1908. The book quickly became an international bestseller. In 1911, after the death of her grandmother, she married the Presbyterian minister Ewan Macdonald and moved with him to Leaskdale, Ontario. The McDonalds had two sons—Chester and Stuart. Despite the multiple demands on her time,

Montgomery put pen to paper steadily, producing not only twenty stories but also short stories, and poetry, when we talk about literature, it will always be attached to children's literature. Children's literature has a significant role in the improvement of literature itself. Children's literature is something that is very interesting not only for children but also for adults. One of the literary works which is deliberated as the pioneer of children's literature is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Anne of Green Gables tells about a red hair urchin girl who is adopted by two siblings to help them to take care of the ranch. Anne is a clever girl and loves to imagine something. Not only that, but this book also tells about how Anne Shirley faces many things that are totally different to what she faced when she stayed in the orphanage. This book has many moral values that are important for us to remember in living our lives.

In this novel and also in its book we can see the loneliness of Anne that made her imagination the center of her power. When she was adopted for the first time, she was like a servant or a house-made not like an adopted child. The reason was they want Anne to work for them and they don’t pay her for that. She was helping them for raising the children, and for doing the house works.