"People were never right in saying I was ‘Anne,’ she told a fellow writer, Ephraim Weber, in a 1921 letter, 'but, in some respects, they will be right if they write me down as Emily.' She was referring to Emily of New Moon, a later novel, the first in a series about the difficulty of making it as a young female writer.
I had come to Park Corner to walk in Montgomery’s footsteps and see the world from which she spun stories that blended fantasy and reality. Yet her fiction, synonymous with bright, idyllic settings and bubbly heroines, also had a darker side—and the picturesque beauty of Park Corner felt at odds with the sober vibe of Emily (1923), her bleakest and most serious book.
'You should go to New Moon,' Pamela Campbell said when I confessed my interest in the lesser-known Emily. The house, she said, 'is just down the road.'"
~ V. M. Braganza
The Author of 'Anne of Green Gables' Lived a Far Less Charmed Life Than Her Beloved Heroine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lm-montgomery-anne-green-gables-life-180981839/
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