Did Lucy Maud Montgomery commit suicide?
Here is a suppposed suicide note written by Montgomery that was found by her bed. It’s hard to say whether or not that was a suicide note says biographer Mary Henley Rubio but it is easy to speculate that Montgomery wished her life over. I discovered these online news sources while I was researching information on The Story Girl which I just finished reading (review forthcoming!) and was floored! I simply can’t seem to wrap my mind around it. I know it sounds a bit obsessive but I feel like I know Montgomery through her writings. I’m currently reading the first of theSelected Journals of L.M. Montgomery (1889-1910) and am loving getting to personally know the woman who penned all of these lovely stories. It almost feels like a crushing blow to hear of this type of end to such a life. Yet still is it unbelievable? It certainly is unpleasant. Death is hard to understand, period, and suicide is harder still. The question that forever hangs over the life is “why?” A never ending chorus wit
