Well this is just plain sad: The granddaughter of L.M. Montgomery,
beloved author of the Anne Of Green Gables books revealed recently to
the Toronto Globe and Mail that her grandmother’s death at the age of
67 was in fact suicide via a drug overdose.
Montgomery had
apparently suffered from deep feelings of anxiety and dread and felt
isolated and sad for much of her life. None of this was a secret to her
descendents, or to scholars who have written biographies of Montgomery
or studied her work.
Kate MacDonald Butler told the Globe and Mail
that she and her family decided to come forward because of a series on
the Canadian mental health system the paper did this year, and also the
renewed attention to Montgomery on the 100th anniversary of Anne of
Green Gables’ publication.
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