The Diary of Charles Macneill, Farmer, 1892-1896
Language: English
Published by Rock's Mills Press, 2018
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- Title
- The Diary of Charles Macneill, Farmer, 1892-1896
- Author
- Macneill, Charles
- Publisher
- Rock's Mills Press
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1772441392
- ISBN 13
- 9781772441390
Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery does a surprising thing in her handwritten journal of 1925: she transcribes the entire diary of PEI farmer Charles Macneill into her own work.
In an earlier journal entry dated August 4, 1923, Montgomery recounts how on a visit to PEI that year, a friend and cousin presented her with a unique document:
Alec produced a “diary” his father had kept for several years and we read it together. I don’t think I ever read anything quite so delicious in my life. Charles Macneill was an odd sort of a man, whom as a child I always loved because he was so kind to children.... He inherited from his mother—his father was not one of “our” Macneills but his mother was—a queer streak of the Macneill literary knack.…
Montgomery is fascinated by this “artless” yet compelling diary. Published now for the first time is the full diary that she found so compelling, an atmospheric depiction of the rural Island setting found in her novels. Macneill’s diary, kept between 1892 and 1896, transports us to a time before wireless communication and industrial agriculture, where people were their own farmers, doctors, and veterinarians. As Montgomery copied out Macneill’s words, she wrote that the “sights and sounds of that old north shore farm” came back like the “voices of ghosts.” Also included in this edition is Montgomery’s commentary on the diary, where she situates herself in the diary’s world.
Her commentary is an exploration of her own unique “mind’s eye,” an exceptional ability to recall this past world with an almost overwhelming intensity.
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About the Author
L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) wrote over 20 books in her life, including Anne of Green Gables (1908). She also kept a series of journals from age 15 to the end of her life.
Charles Macneill was the father of her friend and cousin, Alec Macneill, a farmer from Cavendish, P.E.I.
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