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Becoming Green Gables
Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse | Alan MacEachern
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In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables, the novel written by Myrtles cousin Lucy Maud Montgomery and published to international acclaim a year earlier. The Webbs welcomed visitors to Green Gables and soon took in summer boarders, making their home the heart of PEIs tourist trade. In the 1930s the farm was made the centrepiece of a new national park and still the family lived there for another decade, caretakers of their own home. During these years Myrtle kept a diary. When she first picked up the pencil in 1924, she was a forty-year-old homemaker running a household of eight. By the time she set the pencil down in 1954, she was a seventy-year-old widow, no longer resident in what was now the most famous house in Canada. Becoming Green Gables tells the story of Myrtle Webb and her family, and the making of Green Gables. Alan MacEachern reproduces a selection of the diarys daily entries, using them as springboards to examine topics ranging from the adoption of modern conveniences to the home front hosting of soldiers in wartime and visits from Aunt Maud herself. While the foundation of Becoming Green Gables is the Webbs own story, it is also a history of their famous home, their community, the nation, and the world in which they lived.
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A new addition to my LM Montgomery shelves!

This is the diary of Montgomery‘s cousin, Myrtle Webb, who owned Green Gables and embraced its popularity as a literary landmark.

Hooked_on_books Ooo, that looks interesting! Plus, I love your little gold hand. 4mo
Tamra Love the photo of the house! So nostalgic. 4mo
LeahBergen @Hooked_on_books It sounds so good (and the little hand thanks you 😆). 4mo
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LeahBergen @Tamra It makes me want to visit it again (you know… being a good Canadian and all 😉). 4mo
MemoirsForMe I had no idea about this gem of a book. How cool! 4mo
LeahBergen @UwannaPublishme It was just published in June! 👍 4mo
Cathythoughts Hi Golden Claw 👋🏻 nice to see you X 4mo
LeahBergen @Cathythoughts 👋 back! 😆 4mo
rubyslippersreads I hadn‘t heard about this one. And my #littlebrasshand waves to your #littlebrasshand. 😆 4mo
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