The MaudCast: The Podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute

Bringing listeners warm, thoughtful conversations inspired by the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Description: In this episode, we discuss the editorial and archival adventures of Carolyn Strom Collins, as she talks about the manuscript edition of L.M. Montgomery’s hilarious and unusual romance, The Blue Castle. What is the MaudCast? The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. Special Guest Bio Carolyn Strom Collins is the author of The Anne of Green Gables Treasury and other “Anne” companion books. She has also published companion books on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Carolyn founded The L. M. Montgomery Literary Society as well as the Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute. In season one of the MaudCast, Carolyn joined us to discuss a couple of her editorial projects: After Many Years: Twenty-one “Long-Lost” Stories by L. M. Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript. We are sitting down with Carolyn on the release of another brilliant Montgomery archival resource, The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript.   The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney MaudCast Intern: Fleur Rodrigues Visual Design: Heidi Haering Music: Nicolas Riel Find the MaudCast on Instagram at www.instagram.com/lmmimaudcast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute X: @LMMI_PEI The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Find Brenton Dickieson on Instagram and X: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson Brenton Dickieson on Instagram and X: https://linktr.ee/brentondickieson Brenton Dickieson’s website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com Find Nicolas Riel on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/24tFIIiCjulHu0pbxeQVdA?si=RwSzlCJkQ9604TR-qxNinQ Contact Information for the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society: Website: https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lmmlitsociety/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LMmontgomeryLS Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

MaudCast S03E00 The MaudSwap with the Kindred Spirits Podcast A live on-location podcast swap from the imaginative birthplace of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. How did Montgomery keep her love and writing life secret from the curious eyes of her Cavendish neighbours? Description In this season three launch of the MaudCast, we chat with Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner, the hosts of the Kindred Spirits Podcast. On a very hot summer day, MaudCast host Brenton Dickieson met Kelly and Ragon at the Green Gables Heritage Site in Cavendish. They headed up the hill to the church, which was built when Montgomery was caring for her grandmother at the homestead at the back of the same property. This episode offers a local perspective on Montgomery’s life and works, including the great secrets of her private life as a public figure. We hope you enjoy this special crossover episode between the MaudCast and Kindred Spirits Book Club! A podcast swap … a podswap—a MaudSwap! When you enjoy, please like and share. Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world to the microphone. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. Guest Host Bios Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner are fans of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s work and have been sharing their love for Anne through their podcast: The Kindred Spirit Book Club. They bring beloved characters from the page into our homes through witty and insightful conversations, so we’re very pleased to join with them in on this podswap episode! Follow Kelly and Ragon on Instagram: @kindredspirits.bookclub Website: https://www.kindredspiritsbookclub.com/ The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney MaudCast Intern: Fleur Rodrigues Logo Design: Heidi Haering The MaudCast on Social Media Find the MaudCast on Instagram: @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson Instagram: @bdickieson Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com Credits Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Thanks to Rev. Eric and the volunteers at the Cavendish United Church for hosting our discussion. Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI, the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  

MaudCast S02E05 Alan MacEachern, L.M. Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar  Show Notes: In this episode, historian Alan MacEachern joins Brenton Dickieson to talk about Alan’s work as a historian of place and as the 2022-23 L.M. Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar. Dr. Alan MacEachern is a Canadian history professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has recently published a book on the Miramichi fire, and an upcoming book with UPEI’s Dr. Ed MacDonald, The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island, will be out any day now. As they are both “Island boys,” Brenton and Alan discuss this unique place to visit and call home, Prince Edward Island, and how Montgomery’s life and works help people from around the world become intrigued with PEI. They talk about the upcoming Montgomery Institute Conference in June 2022, with the theme of “L.M. Montgomery and Re-Vision.” Alan also shares about his current research project on the diary of Myrtle Webb, bringing to life the family that lived at the home that inspired the “Green Gables” in Montgomery’s iconic Anne books.  Podcast Description: The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Keziah Stoltz Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane MaudCast Media Contacts: Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/  L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/  The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/  Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/   Guest Social Media Links:    Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanmaceachern   University Website: https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/maceachern.html    Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1623333.Alan_MacEachern?from_search=true&from_srp=true   Closing Quotation: The extract from Myrtle Webb’s diary will be part of Dr. MacEachern’s future book, tentatively titled Myrtle Webb of Green Gables. You can see his upcoming keynote talk at the L.M. Montgomery and Re-vision conference this summer, information here: https://lmmontgomery.ca//lm-montgomery-and-re-vision  Research and Book References from the Show: MacEachern, Alan and MacDonald, Edward. The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Publication Date: April 15th, 2022 MacEachern, Alan. The Miramichi Fire: A history. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020  MacEachern, Alan. Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935–1970. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Acknowledgements: The MaudCast is a global podcast in a digital age but operates in a particular time and place. Thus, we would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land upon which we broadcast is the traditional and ongoing unceded territory of the Abegweit Mi’kmaq First Nation. Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes: In this episode, Brenton Dickieson is pleased to connect with Montgomery-inspired poet and scholar, Julie A. Sellers, on her collection of poems, Kindred Verse: Poems inspired by Anne of Green Gables–a collection filled photographs, reflections, and poems in conversation with the eight Anne books by L.M. Montgomery. Rooted in images of home, the natural, and the adventurous imagination, Kindred Verse is a reflection of how Montgomery’s works and the character of Anne have reshaped Julie’s own sense of the possible. Inspired by readings from Kindred Verses, Julie and Brenton discuss themes of nostalgia, friendship, and landscapes both natural and imaginative. Podcast Description: The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Keziah Stoltz Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane MaudCast Media Contacts: Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/  L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/  The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/  Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/   Guest Social Media Links:    Twitter: @julieasellers  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julieasellersauthor   Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/julieasellers/ Website: https://julieasellers.com/  Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7785927.Julie_A_Sellers Closing Quotation: “We will meet, somewhere, there in the middle of the book…” From Julie A. Sellers, Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables (Wichita: Blue Cedar Press, 2021), p. 20. Research and Book References from the Show: Sellers, Julie A. Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables. Wichita: Blue Cedar Press, 2021. Sellers, Julie A. “‘Just as If I Was a Heroine in a Book’: Quixotic Identification in and with Anne of Green Gables.” In Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, edited by Jessica Carniel and Nike Sulway, 105–20. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. Sellers, Julie A. “‘A Good Imagination Gone Wrong’: Reading Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 5 June 2019, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/sellers. Acknowledgements: The MaudCast is a global podcast in a digital age but operates in a real time and space. Thus, we would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land upon which we broadcast is the traditional and ongoing unceded territory of the Abegweit Mi’kmaq First Nation. Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  

MaudCast S02E03 Melanie Fishbane and Images of Montgomery as an Author In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with scholar and fiction writer, Melanie J. Fishbane to talk about how Mel brings together the creative and the critical in dialogue with L.M. Montgomery’s life and work. At the centre of their discussion is Mel’s literary YA historical fiction, Maud. They discuss Mel’s research and discovery process, getting to the heart of how Lucy Maud Montgomery--”Maud” to her friends and family--became a living character in Mel’s imagination. They discuss Mel’s artistic and character choices, including the difficult conversation about Montgomery and indigenous peoples she encountered, especially in her year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Mel’s choices in the novel, we see--including an elegant moment of drawing the question to the surface--are informed by sensitive research, scholarly insight, writerly instinct, and the ethical choice to seek consultation. Listeners to this episode will appreciate an in-depth discussion about the writing process, and hear about Melanie’s scholarly work, including a recent paper bringing together two Annes--Anne Frank and Anne of Green Gables--woven together thoughtfully with Melanie’s own writerly perspective. Listeners will also enjoy conversation about great books, journaling, the perils of workplace cats, and the importance of coloured pens. Podcast Description The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Keziah Stoltz Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane MaudCast Media Contacts: Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/  L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/  The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/  Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/   Guest Social Media Links:    Twitter: @MelanieFishbane Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelanieJFishbane/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melanie_fishbane/  Website: https://melaniefishbane.com/  Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15505239.Melanie_J_Fishbane  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.   Adapted Closing Quotation: “May you, dear readers, create stories that come from the dark corners of your soul, giving voice to your rainbow valleys, shining waters, and disappointed houses too” (Melanie J. Fishbane, Maud: A Novel INspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery, p. 366). Research References from the Show: Fishbane, Melanie J. Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: Penguin Teen Canada, 2017. Fishbane, Melanie J. “Two Annes, Many Annes: A Writer’s Reflection on Reading Anne of Green Gables and The Diary of a Young Girl.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 18 July 2021, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/fishbane-two-annes-many-annes.  Fishbane, Melanie J. “‘My Pen Shall Heal, Not Hurt’: Writing as Therapy in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted.” In L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911–1942, edited by Rita Bode and Lesley D. Clement, 131–44, 290–91. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Dickieson, Brenton D.G. “Befriending the Darkness: L.M. Montgomery’s Lived Theodicy in Anne’s House of Dreams.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 25 Oct 2021, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/Dickieson/Befriending-the-Darkness.  Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson was joined by two Atlantic Canadian L.M. Montgomery scholars, E. Holly Pike and Laura Robinson. Laura and Holly share about their labour of longsuffering love, the richly edited volume, L.M. Montgomery and Gender, recently published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. In discussion about some of the thoughtful essays in the collection, readers will enjoy hearing about the complex relationship of masculinities and feminitities in Montgomery’s novels and short stories. In particular, Brenton, Holly, and Laura press in on “what L.M. Montgomery is doing to us as readers,” focussing on her particularly deft inversive and subversive tendencies. Within a broad-ranging conversation about books, research, and the social moment, Laura and Holly also share their stories of discovering the imaginative possibilities of working critically with Montgomery’s works and their hopes for an ever-increasing diversity of voices within the Montgomery scholarly community.  Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane MaudCast Media Contacts: Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/  L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/  The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/  Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Brenton Dickieson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdickieson/   Guest Social Media Links:    Twitter: @Laura_Learns Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.laurenson  Instagram:  laurarobinson1928 Acadia U website: https://english.acadiau.ca/dr-laura-robinson.html  Closing Quotation:  “Wave and undertow, affirmation and undercutting: there is no clear end for a time or an idea or a book that people continue to read. Modernism celebrated fractured time, wounded time; Montgomery insisted on time’s deep continuities; she endorsed healing.” (Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, “Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts,” in L.M. Montgomery and Gender, ed. E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), p. 346). Research References from the Show:  Pike, E. Holly, and Laura M. Robinson, eds. L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. Robinson, Laura M. “Kindred Spirits: Kinship and the Nature of Nature in Anne’s House of Dreams and The Blue Castle.” In L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), edited by Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell, 171–83, 240–41. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pike, E. Holly. “Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction.” In L.M. Montgomery and Gender, edited by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson, 175–94. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. Pike, E. Holly. “Reading the Book as Object and Thing in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Series.” In “L.M. Montgomery and Reading,” edited by Emily Woster and Kate Scarth. Special collection, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 15 December 2020. https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2021.0003.  Montgomery, L.M. A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917. Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. The L.M. Montgomery Library. Credits: Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye. Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  

MaudCast S02E01 Allison Hudson and How We Touch the Books We Read  In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with Allison McBain Hudson, a Canadian-Irish writer and Montgomery scholar. Following an MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature that focused on Montgomery’s rural Canadian romanticism in Anne of Green Gables and the Emily trilogy, Allison has moved on to PhD studies in literature at Dublin City University. Brenton and Allison discuss her research, how she moves from “metaphysical” ideas in Montgomery’s writings in her MA research, to the discovery of “physical” objects in her doctoral dissertation. In particular, Allison discusses her research in “material culture” in L.M. Montgomery’s novels--the tangible, tactile objects that make up the details of everyday life. These objects, like houses, books, portraits, mittens, and hanging hams provide atmosphere and setting in the novel, but they also provide connection points between the characters and carry other kinds of significance for the reader. While Allison and Brenton chat about the Emily trilogy throughout, their conversation about books ranges out into the fantastic, considering the “material culture” of objects like wardrobes, sewing machines, rings, and mundane portkeys in writers like C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Katherine Paterson, and Annie Dillard. Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Guest Social Media Links:    Twitter: @Nikiwan72 Facebook: Allison McBain Hudson Instagram: @nikiwan72   Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.   Closing quotation:  “[Jane] had been away from Lantern Hill for nine months, but now it seemed to her that she had never been away at all. She had been living here all along. It was her spirit’s home” (L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill (Seal Books, 1988), p.169).   Other quotations:  “Our lives are characterised by innumerable encounters with objects…Objects are routinely, mundanely, part of everyday existence. Moreover, beyond this pragmatic view, even the most commonplace object has the capacity to symbolise the deepest human anxieties and aspirations…in important ways objects have a type of power over us…people require objects to understand and perform aspects of selfhood, and to navigate the terrain of culture more broadly” (Ian Woodward, Understanding Material Culture, p. vi).   “Emily had never seen a kitchen like this before. It had dark wooden walls and low ceiling, with black rafters crossing it, from which hung hams and sides of bacon and bunches of herbs and new socks and mittens, and many other things, the names and uses of which Emily could not imagine. The sanded floor was spotlessly white, but the boards had been scrubbed away through the years until the knots in them stuck up all over in funny little bosses, and in front of the stove they had sagged, making a queer, shallow little hollow” (L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon, ch. 6).   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  

MaudCast S02E00 Season Two Teaser Transcript Hello kindred spirits, and welcome to MaudCast, the official podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, broadcasting from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. In this age of dislocation and disarray, season one of the MaudCast was far richer than we could have expected. In a dozen episodes, our little podcast brought together Montgomery scholars from around the world, carrying on the work that the L.M. Montgomery Institute has done for more than a quarter of a century: promoting research in and celebration of the life, works, culture, and influence of our favourite Prince Edward Island-born, Canadian writer, Lucy Maud Montgomery.  And we are pleased to announce that Season two is upon us!  We are very much looking forward to welcoming to the microphone Montgomery readers from Prince Edward Island and across the world. Upcoming episodes include conversations about Montgomery’s poetry, new methods of reading her novels, writerly projects about Montgomery’s biography or questions about gender and culture, and considerations of the ways her work inspires in us an artistic voice or a sense of place. In season two, we will speak with scholars, poets, writers, artists, performers, and leaders in the Montgomery community --all in a quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery and join imaginative readers throughout the world. We hope you will join us in this new bend in the road for the MaudCast. I am your host, Dr. Brenton Dickieson. From Technical Director Kristy McKinney and all of us at the MaudCast, we’ll see you soon. Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: Abbey McRoberts Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye.   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, the 2018 and 2020 winners of the Elizabeth R. Epperly award for Outstanding Early Career Paper sit down for a discussion about Montgomery studies and emerging scholarship. After discussing Bonnie Tulloch’s award-winning paper on “Canadian "Anne-Girl[s]": Literary Descendents of Montgomery's Redheaded Heroine, there is a nice surprise as Bonnie takes over the microphone, interviewing host Brenton Dickieson on his recent paper about Anne’s House of Dreams.    Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/   Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Guest Links and Notes on the Conversation: Bonnie’s Website: https://nonsensicaltimes.com/     Domestic Art Project, Co-Curated by Bonnie J. Tulloch and Heidi Haering: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision-forum/domestic-art-project    Bonnie J. Tulloch, Canadian "Anne-Girl[s]": Literary Descendents of Montgomery's Redheaded Heroine, https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/tulloch/canadian-anne-girls   As noted in the podcast, Bonne’s research was supported by and IBBY Canada's 2013 Frances E. Russell Grant.    Bonnie noted an evocative line from Anne on motherhood. Here is the full quotation from Anne of Ingleside, Chapter 40, where Christine is pressing Anne about whether she is really settled as a small-town doctor’s wife: “You used to be quite ambitious, if I remember aright. Didn't you write some rather clever little things when you were at Redmond? A bit fantastic and whimsical, of course, but still . . ." "I wrote them for the people who still believe in fairyland. There is a surprising lot of them, you know, and they like to get news from that country." "And you've quite given it up?" "Not altogether . . . but I'm writing living epistles now," said Anne, thinking of Jem and Co. Christine stared, not recognizing the quotation…. Anne is probably referencing St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, which has become a literary byword in English history.     It is worth noting that 2016 was Bonnie’s first Montgomery conference--not the first one. For this great conference in 2022 in its 15th iteration, see The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Biennial International Conference Call For Paper Proposals: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/lmmongtomery.ca/call-papers-lmmontgomery-revision      Brenton’s Epperly-awarding winning paper is “Befriending the Darkness: L.M. Montgomery’s Popular Theodicy in Anne’s House of Dreams” and will appear in the near future in The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies.     Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye    Closing quotation:  “The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!” (Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, p. 364).   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with the legendary Mary Beth Cavert--an independent scholar who specializes in the personal, historical, and literary context of Montgomery’s kinship ties. Beyond various published essays, Beth publishes, edits, and writes The Shining Scroll, the journal of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society. Brenton and Beth discuss L.M. Montgomery’s lifelong correspondence with George B. MacMillan, a Scottish writer. Brenton and Beth also talk about book collecting and book dedications--both fruitful activities for the reader of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s works.   Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Guest Social Media Links:  Twitter https://twitter.com/LMMontgomeryLS,  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LMMontgomeryLS,  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lmmontgomerylitsociety/ Website: https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com/   Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye   Closing quotation: “I had a certain knack for choosing friends which I took as a matter of course but can now see to have been a very vital endowment” (L.M. Montgomery, 1933; originally discovered in the Kindred Spirits Magazine, ed. George Campbell; reprinted in Ben Lefebvre, The L.M Montgomery Reader, Vol. 1, A Life in Print,” 2013, 294).   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host Brenton Dickieson sits down with the legendary Professor Rita Bode, a scholar of women writers, including L.M. Montgomery and American Women’s Regionalist Fiction (the title of a recent collection of essays that Brenton in this episode calls “the Gothic book”). Rita has co-edited two recent critical volumes in Montgomery studies, and the discussion ranges across the great content of those works and Rita’s observations. And of course, Rita and Brenton talk books, sharing their experiences of some of the books we love to love--and some we struggle to love. Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute Website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute Twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson Twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Rita Bode's Website: https://www.trentu.ca/english/faculty-research/rita-bode The SHCY interview: https://shcy.pinecast.co/episode/ad71313719b84805/l-m-montgomery-and-the-matter-of-nature-s-    Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye   Closing quotation: “‘Well now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I’m proud of.’” (Anne of Green Gables, Ch. 36, p. 346 [Tundra edition])    Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode of the MaudCast we chat with Jenny Litster, a cultural historian and specialist on L.M. Montgomery and her Scottish and Prince Edward Island roots. Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting-edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle Researcher: MacKenzie Cutcliffe   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Jenny Litster’s Social Media Links:  Instagram: @floramcflimsey Twitter: @jennylitster   Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye   Closing quotation: “There can’t be any doubt that the exhortation to love our neighbour as ourselves is a proper and edifying one: but it is a hard thing to do when one has a neighbour like Susanna Johnson.” (“The After-Thanksgiving Story”)   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com    Rachel Dodge’s Website: www.racheldodge.com  Rachel Dodge’s Social Media Links:  Instagram: @kindredspiritbooks Twitter: @RachelDodgeBks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/racheldodgebooks   Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/   Closing quotation: “It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?” —Anne Shirley (AGG, Ch. 8)   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

In this episode, host and producer Brenton Dickieson sits down digitally with Kate Scarth, Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies at the University of Prince Edward Islands and Alyssa Gillespie, editorial assistant for The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies. In discussing our family holiday traditions and our favourite Montgomery Christmas scenes, we also visit with the technical director of the MaudCast, Kristy McKinney. With eggnog lattes in our hands and red currant wine in our hearts, the MaudCast team toasts this strange year that was with hopes for the years to come. The episode concludes with Brenton’s reading of “Christmas at Red Butte,” Montgomery’s prairie Christmas story, and one that reminds us of the importance of family and self-sacrifice--even in the midst of adversity, isolation, and distance from the ones we love. Merry Christmas!

Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.  The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Contact Information for the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com https://www.instagram.com/lmmlitsociety/  https://www.facebook.com/LMmontgomeryLS  https://twitter.com/LMmontgomeryLS  https://twitter.com/clsc429  [email protected]    Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/   Closing quotation: “lovely quote here with reference”   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie Researcher: Darriel Rolle   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Rilla of Ingleside Readathon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/   Closing quotation: “The body grows slowly and steadily, but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. From that night Rilla Blythe's soul was the soul of a woman in its capacity for suffering, for strength, for endurance.” RIlla of Ingleside, ch. 14, “The Valley of Decision”   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever Trinna S. Frever, “Adaptive Interplay: L.M. Montgomery, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf’s Shakespearean Sister” http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/pdf/l_m_montgomery.pdf Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/ Trinna Frever’s Instagram: @trinna_writes Trinna Frever’s website: https://trinnafrever.com/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Closing quotation: “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland” (The Story Girl, ch. 16, “The Ghostly Bell). The Toni Morrison quotation can be found here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/.    Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane Researcher: Alyssa Gillespie   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever Trinna S. Frever, “Adaptive Interplay: L.M. Montgomery, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf’s Shakespearean Sister” http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/pdf/l_m_montgomery.pdf Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/ Trinna Frever’s Instagram: @trinna_writes Trinna Frever’s website: https://trinnafrever.com/ Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Closing quotation: “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland” (The Story Girl, ch. 16, “The Ghostly Bell). The Toni Morrison quotation can be found here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/.    Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Dr. Kate Scarth is the Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies at UPEI, where she works closely with the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and is also an Assistant Professor of Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture. She is particularly interested in the relationship between story and place and works on writers from Jane Austen to Montgomery. Her current projects include yourlmmontgomerystory.com, which was featured in June 2020 on CBC. As always, you can check out links to this great project in the show notes   Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Website Photos: Anne Woster Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ Trinna S. Frever, “Seeing Female Readers, Reading Female Readers, Making Meta-Readers: Montgomery as Depictor and Creator of Scholars” (Video): https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading/frever Dr. Scarth’s paper, “From Anne of Green Gables to Anne of the Suburbs: Lucy Maud Montgomery Reimagines Home in Anne of the Island”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09699082.2017.1403068 Montgomery’s PEI Map: https://lmmontgomery.ca/map L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision_cfp Your L.M. Montgomery Story: https://yourlmmstory.com/ Kate Scarth twitter: @katescarth Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Laura Leden is a PhD candidate in translation studies at the University of Helsinki, working on the final stages of her thesis on adaptation in translations of girls’ fiction from English into Swedish and Finnish, including translations of Montgomery’s Emily trilogy. Alongside her PhD project, she has written several journal articles and book chapters on the translations of Montgomery’s books and been a regular speaker at the L.M. Montgomery conferences for the last ten years.   Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Website Photos: Anne Woster Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision_cfp Laura Leden’s instagram: @laurairenel The L.M. Montgomery Nordic Instagram: @lmmontgomerynordicLaura Leden’s website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/laura-leden Laura’s Blog Post, “The Nordic Vision of L.M. Montgomery in Book Covers on Instagram”:  Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Closing Quotation: “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think” (Anne of Green Gables, ch. 19)  Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Dr. Clement is the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Visiting Scholar. Lesley has held teaching and administrative positions at various Canadian universities. She has published on visual literacy, empathy, and death in children’s literature. Her work on Montgomery appears in Studies in Canadian Literature and L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s). Recent projects include co-editing, with Rita Bode, L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 (2015) and, with Leyli Jamali, Global Perspectives on Death in Children’s Literature (2016).   Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island.    The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Visual Design: Heidi Haering Website Photos: Anne Woster Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Kindred Spaces Research Collection Online: https://kindredspaces.ca/ The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/ L.M. Montgomery and Vision Virtua Conference Space: https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision-forum Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye Lesley’s Latest Publications: Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature, co-edited with Leyli Jamali L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942, co-edited with Rita Bode   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Transcript In 1922, not long after she finished writing one of her most personal and profound novels, Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maud Montgomery made a diary entry about a fantastic new technology: the radio. Montgomery talked about this wonderful invention that allows you to hear broadcasts of sermons and speeches and concerts from the great cities of North America. Though fascinated, Maud was also a bit resistant, worried that this would be another device that would fill up her very precious time in unmeaningful ways. When Maud finally heard a broadcast a few months later, she was still unsettled by the idea of the radio. The experience of it, though, was “marvellous.” Maud predicted accurately that the radio would “revolutionize the world in another generation.” Though Maud longed for the old days in unhurried Prince Edward Island—the stage for many of her beloved characters—she imagines a not-too-distant future when letters will be obsolete, and the radio will be how the world bridges the distance between one another. If we can use our imaginations and extend her image of “radio” to digital spaces, Maud was able to predict a bit of our generation in a way that very few have. Since that time nearly a century ago, L.M. Montgomery’s stories have filled the world with wonder and joy, and we thought it was time to share scholarship and imaginative discovery of Maud’s life and writings in our newest form of the radio. The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, here on the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. For more than a quarter of a century, the L.M. Montgomery Institute has promoted research and celebration of the life, works, culture, and influence of our favourite Prince Edward Island-born, Canadian writer. I am your MaudCast host, Dr. Brenton Dickieson, and I hope you can join us here in the future Maud glimpsed, as we discuss the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery with leading scholars, local researchers, and readers from around the world.   Show Notes The MaudCast is the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover cutting edge scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world. Hosted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson, we broadcast from the beautiful campus of the University of Prince Edward Island. The MaudCast Team Host and Founding Producer: Brenton Dickieson Founding Co-Producer: Kate Scarth Technical Director: Kristy McKinney Audio Engineering: Nicolas Dickieson Visual Design: Heidi Haering Website Photos: Anne Woster Web Coordinator: Melanie J. Fishbane   Find the MaudCast on Twitter and Instagram @LMMIMaudCast L.M. Montgomery Institute website: https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ L.M. Montgomery Institute twitter: @LMMI_PEI Brenton Dickieson twitter: @BrentonDana Brenton Dickieson website: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com  Susato’s “Selection from The Danserye: III. Les Quatre Branle” performed by the UPEI Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Karem J Simon, available for purchase here: https://upeiwindsymphony.bandcamp.com/album/the-danserye   Special thanks to the Robertson Library at UPEI and all of our community partners. The MaudCast is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.