Two Facts about Lucy Maud Montgomery

The classic children’s novel Anne of Green Gables was written by Canadian L. M.  Montgomery.

Here’s two interesting facts about her:

1. Montgomery wrote in secret because of her family thought writing was a waste of time. She wrote “I struggled on alone, in secrecy and silence. I never told my ambitions and efforts and failures to anyone.”
2. She could hide her submissions to publishers–and their rejections–because she was an assistant postmistress. Anne of Green Gables was rejected several times before it was finally published in 1908.