M. Montgomery, Author of "Anne of Green Gables." "This drove me in on myself and early forced me to construct for myself a world of fancy and imagination very different indeed from the world in which I lived." Her natural surroundings gave her a "passport to fairyland" as she used her imagination to escape the day to day life on the farm.
Montgomery also recalled in her journals that childish pranks were met with commands to kneel and pray to God for forgiveness, even while the flame of rebellion still smoldered. "The enforced confessions and prayers left Montgomery with a feeling of profound humiliation and a confused sense that religion was, like sex, necessary but shameful," noted Francis Frazer in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. While Montgomery's grandparents fulfilled the material side of her childhood needs, they were unable to supply the additional emotional and mental support she required. As a sensitive child, she was especially vulnerable, and when her grandmother harshly reminded her of such things as her father's abandonment of Maud, she recoiled into her own world.
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