#it felt like a total satirical play on traditional fairy tales
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“A love story with a psychological interest … a rather doubtful experiment with a public who expects a certain style from an author."
— Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Selected Journals of, on the subject of 'Kilmeny of the Orchard'
#the kilmeny read-along has been sooo funny to third-party#you guys are so genius#i always felt like kilmeny was maud’s ‘gotcha’#mostly because of this above journal entry#it felt like a total satirical play on traditional fairy tales#right down to how we see kilmeny’s life truly begin and develop and the moment she meets her ‘prince’ eric#like#right after she meets eric things progress for her… she sees herself for the first time… she perceives herself… and in the end she speaks#all things she hadn’t or couldn’t achieve without him#so here we have our damsel in distress… given growth and a beginning by a man that only wants to really trap her again#say nothing of the way kilmeny is the titular character and yet it is ERICS story#this feels like maud (a huge lover of fairy tales in general) having a bit of a go at these old-timey stories#how easy it is to suppose she was poking some fun at the Way of the World then too#her own existence as a woman was about to transform at the time she wrote it… she was engaged to ewen in 1908#ANYWAY that is my whole entire 2¢#i’m about to go like posts and make it EVERYONEs problem so RIP to y’all’s notifs#lucy maud montgomery#kilmeny of the orchard
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