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Series
  
Emily series

Originally published
  
1925

Preceded by
  
Publisher
  
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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1925

Followed by
  
Country
  
Canada

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Similar
  
Lucy Maud Montgomery books, Author books

Emily Climbs is the second in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1925.

Contents

"People were never right in saying I was Anne. But in some respects, they will be right if they write me down as Emily."

While the legal battle with Montgomery's publishing company (L.C. Page) continued, Montgomery's husband Ewan MacDonald continued to suffer clinical depression. Montgomery, tired of writing the Anne series, created a new heroine named Emily. At the same time as writing, Montgomery was also copying her journal from her early years. The biographical elements heavily influenced the Emily trilogy.

Introduction

The poem To the Fringed Gentian was the keynote of Montgomery's every aim and ambition. Like Montgomery, Emily climbs the symbolic "Alpine path" to be a female writer.

"The Flash" is extraordinary experience common to both Montgomery and Emily, but not shared with Anne Shirley.

Plot summary

Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it is the second that causes Emily difficulties. Emily must not write a word during her high-school education. At first, Emily refuses the offer, unable to contemplate a life without any writing. Cousin Jimmy changes the condition slightly, saying that she cannot write a word of "fiction". Emily does not think this much of an improvement but it turns out to be an excellent exercise for her budding writing career. Although Emily clashes with Aunt Ruth and Evelyn Blake, the school's would-be writer, she starts to develop her powers of storytelling. Through a series of adventures, Emily is furnished with materials to write stories and poems, and even sees success with the short story "The Woman Who Spanked the King." In the meantime, Emily also begins to see romantic possibilities for her life. She and Teddy Kent draw closer, but due to misunderstandings and interference from Teddy's mother, the romance stalls. Emily also refuses a proposal from Perry Miller, and continues her long-lasting friendship with Dean Priest. At the end of the novel, Emily, now a budding young writer, chooses to remain at her beloved New Moon rather than leaving for New York with famous writer Janet Royal.

Television series

The novels were adapted into a TV series by Salter Street Films and CBC Television in 1998.

Animation

In 2007, Japanese educational TV broadcast "Kaze no Shoujo Emily" which was inspired by the novels.

Musical

The Gateway Theatre in Richmond played the musical Emily.

References

Emily Climbs Wikipedia


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