L. M Montgomery

A critical analysis of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel "Anne of Green Gables, " with background material, textual notes, chronology, and critical reviews from a number of authors.

Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.