ON THIS DAY

November 30, 1874

Writer Lucy Maud Montgomery

was born in Clifton (now New London), P.E.I. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, published in Boston in 1908, was an instant bestseller. The story of orphan

Anne Shirley’s bright passage from childhood into adolescence mirrors aspects of Montgomery’s own youth in PEI, where she lived with her grandparents after her mother’s death. Her story, and her struggles with depression have been immortalized in a

Heritage Minute.