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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20080601
Author:Anonymous

Reviwed by Ursula Fuchs

Looking for Anne

How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

By Irene Gammel

Key Porter Books, 312 pages, $33

The first three chapter headings of Anne of Green Gables read: Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised, Mathew Cuthbert Is Surprised and Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised. This new volume of popular literary history could have been subtitled Lucy Maud Montgomery's Readers Are Surprised.

Very accessible yet meticulously researched and annotated, Looking for Anne delves into the "perfect storm of inspiration" for this enduring 100-year-old Canadian classic.

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