WRITER

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1874 - 1942

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. 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. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucy Maud Montgomery has received more than 4,038,300 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Lucy Maud Montgomery is the 373rd most popular writer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Canada (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Writer.

Lucy Maud Montgomery is most famous for her novel, Anne of Green Gables.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Anne of Avonlea
Juvenile Fiction
In the sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island, where her students respond differently to her methods of teaching. Reprint.
1909
Anne of the Island
Juvenile Fiction
Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves home to go to college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, and finds her life expanding in many different ways, including a marriage proposal, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson.
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Anne of Green Gables
1908
Anne's House of Dreams
1917
Chronicles of Avonlea
1912
Rainbow Valley
1919

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 373 out of 7,302. Before her are Jo Nesbø, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ennius, Octavio Paz, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Tulsidas. After her are Grazia Deledda, Enheduanna, Theocritus, Arthur de Gobineau, Julio Cortázar, and Georges Bataille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 17. Before her are Max Scheler, Edward Thorndike, Gertrude Stein, Alexander Kolchak, António Egas Moniz, and Carl Bosch. After her are Sunjong of Korea, Nikolai Berdyaev, G. K. Chesterton, Talaat Pasha, W. Somerset Maugham, and August Krogh. Among people deceased in 1942, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 10. Before her are Robert Musil, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Bronisław Malinowski, Anton Drexler, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After her are William G. Morgan, Richard Willstätter, William Henry Bragg, Robert Bosch, Fritz Todt, and Bruno Schulz.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 11 out of 1,622. Before her are Celine Dion (1968), Justin Trudeau (1971), James Cameron (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935), Frank Gehry (1929), and Erving Goffman (1922). After her are Alice Munro (1931), Christopher Plummer (1929), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Margaret Atwood (1939), David Cronenberg (1943), and James Naismith (1861).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 1. After her are Alice Munro (1931), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Brian Tracy (1944), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Louise Penny (1958).

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