Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by portobello » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 10:45 PM UTC

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by DoreenMichele » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

I didn't recognize the name in the title. In case others don't either: This is about reading the journals of a successful female Canadian author whose books you have likely heard of.

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by tmilard » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

The writing of Carol Volkart is itlelf so profound and seducive. As if she had managed with success to walk into lucy Maud pathway.

A Spiritual tribute

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by the_af » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 1:11 AM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #2

I didn't recognize the name in the title. In case others don't either: This is about reading the journals of a successful female Canadian author whose books you have likely heard of.

And the TV adaptations are pretty good, too. I loved "Anne with an E", currently on Netflix. The older adaptations are good too.

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by Gravityloss » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 7:35 AM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #2

I didn't recognize the name in the title. In case others don't either: This is about reading the journals of a successful female Canadian author whose books you have likely heard of.

Yes, L.M. Montgomery. Very good article, worth reading, very on topic for Hacker News.

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by mlang23 » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 7:51 AM UTC

I guess the author of this article would leave their spouse on first sight of trouble. Nice to see how loyality changed in the last 100 years.

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Post by bregma » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

Montgomery's biography like that of L. M. Alcott, M. W. Shelley, and M. de Cervantes, makes for a more interesting read than any of the characters they created. Worth seeking out.

Re: Why I Love Lucy Maud

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Post by JasonFruit » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

This is an interesting article, but it seems a little vampirish. It seems to consider her life only as the mechanism to provide an excellent plot for her diaries, which rubs me the wrong way. I know, she's dead, it doesn't affect her — but it still seems like too literary an appreciation of the real and unpleasant life of another human being.