Schooled with briars : collected serials, 1903-1913 / L.M. Montgomery ; edited by Benjamin Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942, author.

Contributor:

Lefebvre, Benjamin, editor.

Series:

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. http://viaf.org/viaf/24154257786124150196 L.M. Montgomery library

The L.M. Montgomery library

Standardized Title:

Serialized fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942--History and criticism.

Montgomery, L. M.

Serialized fiction--Canada--20th century.

Serialized fiction.

Genre:

Serialized fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 394 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Out of the roughly five hundred shorter works of fiction that L.M. Montgomery published in periodicals between 1895 and 1940, about a dozen consisted of multi-chapter serials. As a form of print storytelling, fiction serials offered more complexity than short stories by virtue of their relatively longer word count, but since they appeared in instalments, they had to be structured for readers who had to wait to find out what happened next. Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913, the fourth volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library , reprints Montgomery's six surviving fiction serials published over a ten-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre offers an in-depth analysis of these serials and what they reveal, sometimes problematically, about normative gender roles (including the figure of the "ideal woman"), whiteness and otherness, terminology and ableism, and the ways that her characters' abilities to earn a living are often constrained by complex attitudes about gender and class . He also traces fascinating parallels between this material and her novels, including the iconic Anne of Green Gables. This volume offers readers fresh insights into Montgomery's career as a contributor to a competitive, metropolitan literary marketplace."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A note on the Author

Abbreviations

Preface

A note on the Text

The Running Away of Chester

The Bitterness in the Cup

Four Winds

By Way of the Brick Oven

Una of the Garden

How We Went to the Wedding

Appendix: Revised Scenes

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed on March 30, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. Serialized fiction. Schooled with briars.

ISBN:

9781487518134

1487518137

9781487518257

1487518250

OCLC:

1531216902

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license