Quotes from L. M. Montgomery's books, and about them
Anne of Green Gables on Ben-Hur: “I was reading it at dinner-hour, and I had just got to the chariot-race when school went in.”
Anne of Green Gables on The Lady of the Lake: “I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.”
Anne of Green Gables on The Seasons: “I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.”
Anne of Green Gables on Idylls of the King: “It was Anne’s idea that they dramatize Elaine. They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter”
Anne of Avonlea on Paradise Lost: “Isn't it something to have started a soul along a path that may end in Shakespeare and Paradise Lost?"”
Anne of Avonlea on Bluebeard: “She made frequent trips to the gate and looked as anxiously down the lane as ever her namesake in the Bluebeard story peered from the tower casement.”
How to Be a Heroine on Anne of Green Gables: “Luckily, soon after discovering Sara, I read Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its vivacious heroine Anne Shirley showed me that imagination could do a lot more.”