Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874 in Prince Edward Island, Canada. When she was 21 months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. The father left the island, leaving his daughter in the care of his in-laws. Montgomery’s grandparents were reluctant to show their granddaughter warmth and affection. They were strict, but fortunately Maud (a name she used every day) could count on the care and protection of her aunt, Annie.
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She first published her work when she was 16. She married without love
She kept diaries for most of her life. In them, she described in detail not only her feelings. As a teenager, she moved to her father’s house for a while, who decided to remarry. However, she did not have a good relationship with her stepmother and half-siblings. A year later, she returned to Prince Edward Island. When she was 16, her first poem was printed in the local newspaper.
Montgomery was a diligent student, after graduating from elementary school she decided to take a two-year teaching course, which she managed to complete in a year. For several years she worked as a teacher, then the dream of a career began to sprout in her head. She was then engaged to her cousin, Edwin Simpson. There was no feeling between them, so when Herman Leard stood in her way, her heart fell for him. But Leard was a poor farmer and Maud was engaged. Dilemmas ended with the news of the death of his grandfather and Leard’s death in 1899. The year before, she had returned to Prince Edward Island to care for her grandmother. There she met Pastor Ewan Macdonald. It was for him that she decided to marry, although there was no love between them. They had to wait until Grandmother Montgomery’s death to marry in 1911.
Writing helped her escape from everyday life. She didn’t like “Anne of Green Gables”
Family life turned out to be full of disappointments for Maud. In her free time, she intensively kept a diary, and also wrote more stories and novels. In 1912, a year after their wedding, their first son, Chester, was born. Hugh died after giving birth in 1914, and Stuart was born a year later. Montgomery was already famous, in 1908 a publishing house in Boston decided to publish a novel written by her about a red-haired orphan with an exceptionally vivid imagination. But with each volume the publisher insisted on, Maud grew sick of the character she had created. Despite this, she wrote, thus escaping from the troubles of everyday life. Her husband had increasingly frequent bouts of depression, her son died during World War I, and she was bedridden for 10 days during the Spanish flu epidemic.
Lucy Maud Montgomery died in 1942. Years later, the secret was revealed
On April 24, 1942, the family found the dead body of Maud. Until 2008, everyone believed that the cause of death of the writer was a coronary thrombosis. In September 2008, Montgomery’s granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, revealed that her grandmother had struggled with depression for years. Her husband’s illness, the loss of her son, the outbreak of World War I, the hard-fought Spanish flu, finally her profession in life, family problems and the outbreak of World War II seriously affected her mental health.
Butler revealed that a note was found by Lucy Maud Montgomery’s bed on the day of her death, which clearly suggested that the author of “” most likely died of a drug overdose. However, these are still only suspicions, because there is no clear evidence for this.
I’ve lost my mind […]. May God forgive me and I hope others forgive me too, even if they cannot understand it. My position is too terrible to endure any longer, and no one realizes it.
– in a letter.
If you are experiencing difficulties and are thinking about taking your own life or want to help a person at risk of suicide, remember that you can use the free help numbers:
- Support Center for Adults in Mental Crisis: 800-70-2222
- Helpline for Children and Youth: 116 111
- Emotional support phone for adults: 116 123
under this you will find more information on how to help yourself or others, and contacts to organizations that help people in crisis and their loved ones.
If your life is in danger from suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide, for immediate crisis intervention, call the police on 112 or go to the A&E department of your local psychiatric hospital.
Source: Gazeta
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