Elizabeth Waterston

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After years of publishing academic texts, articles, and entries for cyclopedias, and editing learned journals and wrongly-forgotten classics, I have swung into fiction. My novels now include a historical romance (Plaid around the Mountain), a local colour novel (At the Corner of Hope) and a late-life love-story (Passion Spent). I write the kind of books I like to read: colorful, warm-hearted, full of convincing characters and unexpected plot twists.

As an English professor, originally considered something of an authority on Victorian, Scottish, and travel literature, I gradually developed an interest in the whole creative process, especially as shown in the life and work of Lucy Maud Montgomery. I wrote a book on Anne of Green Gables called Kindling Spirit, and with my friend and colleague Mary Rubio I co-edited Montgomery’s Journals, edited popular editions of seven of her other novels, and prepared Anne of Green Gables: A Norton Critical Edition. This interest culminated in Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery, which covers all twenty-two of Montgomery’s novels, and sets each into the context of the author’s life, times, markets, and aspirations.

My other interests remain, caught in major publications: Rapt in Plaid: Canadian Literature and the Scottish Tradition; Canada to 1900: The Travellers; and Children's Literature in Canada.

Currently I am working on a coming-of-age story about the opening days of World War II, seen from the perspective of a college student, and devising a play about the Five "Persons" who changed the legal status of women in Canada.

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To contact Elizabeth Waterston by email, write to: elizwat@hotmail.com             

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