5/26/2023 0 Comments Maud melanie fishbane![]() ![]() ![]() She receives plenty of unwanted attention from men, and the adults in her life, rather than defending her, always tell her she must be encouraging them. While others continually push her to marriage, she knows there are others things she wants to accomplish first. ![]() Maud feels called to writing and longs to attend college, but her family isn't encouraging and she doesn't know how she will afford it. Many aspects of the novel show the trials of being a woman during the early 20th century. When Anne gets in trouble with her grandparents, she's sent out to the Wild West to, for the first time in her life, live with her father, his new wife and her half-siblings. Her mother died when she was young and her father left her to be raised by her aunt and, later, her old-fashioned maternal grandparents. Much like Anne, Maud also wasn't raised by her parents. In the novel, Maud has bosom friends, experiences young love akin to Anne and Gilbert, and deals with drama in the schoolroom. Since many aspects of "Anne of Green Gables" hearken back to Montgomery's actual childhood, including the setting of Prince Edward Island, much of the world Fishbane creates feels familiar. Fishbane's first novel tells a fictionalized story of Lucy Maud Montgomery's teen years in "Maud." Fishbane, Penguin Teen, $17.99, 400 pages (f) (ages 12 and up)įor lovers of "Anne of Green Gables," Melanie J. " MAUD: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. ![]()
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