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Minute by minute: the Cavendish Literary Society 1886-1924.

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From: Kindred Spirits
Date: 20050322
Author:Hayden, Beverly

It is an understatement and redundant to say that Lucy Maud Montgomery had a keen intellect and a fine literary mind. Her intelligence was mostly of a genetic makeup, as her ancestors enjoyed high esteem as orators, raconteurs and politicians, and her immediate families were well read and self-educated. But the Cavendish of her youth, with its Literary Society and lending library was a breeding ground for fertile minds like hers.

Although there had been a lending library in Cavendish prior to 1886, official formation of the Cavendish Literary Society and Library that year ...

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