After Green Gables; L. M. Montgomery's letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916-1941.0802084591 After Green Gables
Weber (wē`bər), river, c.125 mi (200 km) long, rising in the Uinta Mts., N central Utah, and flowing north and northwest to join the Ogden River at Ogden. The combined stream flows to the Great Salt Lake. , 1916-1941. Montgomery, L.M. Ed. by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen. U. of Toronto Pr. 2006 288 pages $34.95 Paperback PS8526 He was a prolific correspondent but an unsuccessful writer. She was prolific and successful and her works are still selling briskly brisk adj. brisk·er, brisk·est 1. Marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic: had a brisk walk in the park. 2. today. They only met in person years after he wrote his first fan letter to her, but Montgomery and Weber served as supporters, opponents and muses to each other as she endured a loveless marriage and he endured a thankless career as would-be academic. Froese Tiessen (English, U. of Waterloo Waterloo, town, Belgium Waterloo (vä`tərlō), commune (1991 pop. 27,860), Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, near Brussels. The battle of Waterloo (see Waterloo campaign) was fought just south of there on June 18, 1815. ) and Tiessen (English, Wilfrid Laurier U.) take care to let Montgomery's reconstruction of herself under the gaze of Weber come through, and are equally careful to show how Weber, despite his relative lack of fortune and fame, was deeply informed by his Mennonite faith and greatly influential in his assessments of literature, culture, religion and politics with Montgomery and others amongst the Canadian literati literati Scholars in China and Japan whose poetry, calligraphy, and paintings were supposed primarily to reveal their cultivation and express their personal feelings rather than demonstrate professional skill. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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