Tag Archives: At the Altar

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘What Aunt Marcella Would Have Called It’ – by L.M. Montgomery This one was written in 1935 – I’m always interested to read Lucy Maud’s short stories that she wrote AFTER … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘The Touch of Fate’ – by L.M. Montgomery This is one of Lucy Maud’s stories that takes place out in the wild west of the Canadian prairies. Even though her main … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘The Way of the Winning of Anne’ – by L.M. Montgomery Another story with one of Lucy Maud’s thematic standbys: a long-ass courtship of 15 years … not really going anywhere … Continue reading →

Children’s/YA bookshelf: At the Altar – ‘The Dissipation of Miss Posonby’ – by L.M. Montgomery I love when she has these old-fashioned Victorian titles. ‘The Dissipation of Miss Posonby’. Wonderful. Miss Posonby is one of Lucy Maud delightful old-maid characters. … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘Them Notorious Pigs’ – by L.M. Montgomery Okay – so let’s get back into the daily excerpt thingie. Lucy Maud still chugging away!! This story is really cute (and you can … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘The Wooing of Bessy’ – by L.M. Montgomery Lucy Maud wrote a really good dominating female character. Sometimes she was benign, even though she bosses everybody around – like Judith in … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘The Pursuit of the Ideal’ – by L.M. Montgomery The plot-line of this sweet little story has a lot of similarties to “The Hurrying of Ludovic“. Published in 1904 – pre-dating … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘The Gossip of Valley View’ – by L.M. Montgomery I think this might be my favorite TYPE of Lucy Maud romance: involving two maybe middle-aged people … not too romantic … … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘A Dinner of Herbs’ – by L.M. Montgomery Speaking of maiden aunts! ‘A Dinner of Herbs’ is about a maiden aunt – who has elements of many other Lucy Maud heroines … Continue reading →

Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: At the Altar – ‘Aunt Philippa and the Men’ – by L.M. Montgomery At the Altar is another one of the collections put together by Rea Wilmhurst in the 90s of Lucy Maud’s work – … Continue reading →