A great addition to any Montgomery lover’s collection, this book is a fascinating view into L.M. Montgomery’s original manuscript for the novel The Blue Castle, presented with scribbled notes, character name changes, additions and deletions, and other pre-publication changes, offering fascinating new insight into the writing process of one of Canada’s most beloved writers.

Edited by Carolyn Strom Collins, with a keen eye to detail and deep respect for the writer’s creative process, this book features high-quality photographs of select pages of the original manuscript. 

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First published in 1926, The Blue Castle is one of Montgomery’s few adult novels, and the only one set entirely outside of Prince Edward Island. Montgomery scholar Carolyn Strom Collins provides a transcription of the text and notes from Montgomery’s handwritten manuscript, showing how they were integrated to form the published novel. (Major changes include changing the inspiring main character’s name from Miranda to Valancy, and Barney’s beloved cat from Jigglesqueak to Banjo.)