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Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) is the author of a much-loved series about an orphaned girl named Anne Shirley, beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Written in 1905, the novel was rejected by several publishers before its debut in 1908, when it became an immediate bestseller. Montgomery went on to publish twenty novels, as well as hundreds of short stories, poems, and an autobiography. Most of her work is set in the tiny province of Prince Edward Island, where to this day thousands of people come to see the island that Anne Shirley and L. M. Montgomery loved.

Photograph from Library and Archives Canada.

Uncle Richard’s New Year’s Dinner

A Story

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Prissy Baker was in Oscar Miller’s store New Year’s morning, buying matches—for New Year’s was not kept as a business holiday in Quincy—when her uncle, Richard Baker, came in. He did not look at Prissy, nor did she wish him a happy New Year; she would not have dared. Uncle Richard had not been on speaking terms with her or her father, his only brother, for eight years.

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