The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne [Shared]

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The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne

The image shows two stacks of handwritten pages, likely from an old manuscript or notebook. The pages are yellowed and show signs of age, with some creases and discoloration. The handwriting is in cursive, with ink that has darkened over time, suggesting the pages are quite old. The text is densely written, with no visible headings or titles, and the pages are filled with text from top to bottom. The left stack has a visible crack running through the middle, indicating some damage. The right stack is labeled Chapter 2 at the top, suggesting it is part of a larger work. The text appears to be in English, with some words underlined, possibly for emphasis or correction. The pages are bound together, with the edges slightly frayed, and the overall condition suggests they have been preserved for a long time.</p> <p>Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne

The manuscript is housed in the collections of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Both sides of each page (recto and verso) were scanned at the Robertson Library’s Digitization Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island.

The manuscript has been on display only a few times. A clipping in Montgomery’s scrapbooks notes that the first page was once on display at a “Book Week Event” at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto sometime around 1935. Since then, some pages have even traveled to Japan for exhibits. The entire manuscript was brought to the launching of the L.M. Montgomery Institute in April of 1993, and various exhibits at the Confederation Centre have included the manuscript. However, even when the entire manuscript is on display, only one or two pages could be viewed at a time.

The full stack of pages (see above) includes a variety of paper types, some lined and some unlined, some regular sheets and some irregular. You can see that many of the pages have ragged edges, suggesting that they were torn from something like a notebook. The edge of the stack shows how the variety of paper types have all aged and yellowed differently.

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