Bard of Avon

[Mhochberg at aol.com]

Carol wrote:
I remember reading a novel as a little girl in which the child heroine

shows her aunt a poem she's written and gets an unfavorable reaction.

The girl says, "But it's blank verse!" to which the aunt replies

dryly, "Yes. Very blank." I should read the book again considering

that I still remember that scene after all these years. I think it was

"Emily of New Moon." Has anyone else ever read that book?

I reply:
Yes, I've read "Emily of New Moon" as well as the sequel "Emily Climbs" both by L. M. Montgomery, author of the Anne of Avonlea books as well as many, many others. I particularly liked the Emily books as Emily wanted to be a writer. 

I went through a period where I read everything that had been republished. What really appealed to me where her characters. In one book she describes someone whose facial features all seemed to be trying to get away from each other.

---Mary



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