Scholar finds friendship, special bond with her mother through L.M. Montgomery works
CBC
Lucy Maud Montgomery has always been a big part of Emily Woster's life.
The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables has been the subject of Woster's scholarly research since her PhD dissertation.
The Minnesota woman has been travelling to Montgomery's birthplace in P.E.I. since she was a teenager, and has attended university conferences focused on the author since she was 17.
She's even named after one of Montgomery's characters — and so is her younger sister, Anne.
"My name and my family and my research, my work is all kind of connected," she said. "I know that for a lot of people, that might be kind of hard, but I love that ... in a lot of ways."
Woster's mother, Christy, was a renowned collector of Montgomery editions and memorabilia who became fascinated with the Anne books when she was a child.
"[My grandmother] sat down my mom and her three brothers and read the beginning of the end of Green Gables for them, right up to the point where Matthew and Marilla are deciding whether or not to keep Anne," Woster said. "And then she kind of pretended she got a headache and just left the book with them.
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