Lucy was born on November 30th 1874 in a yellow house in the town of Clifton ( New London ) on Prince Edward Island .
Her mother died September 14th 1876; Lucy was almost two years old. She and her father moved in with her grandparents. Her father, Hugh John moved to Saskatchewan when Lucy was only ten. She was left in the care of her elderly grandparents, who had raised their own six children and had little patients for a rebellious, emotional child.
Lucy’s early childhood and Ann Shirley from Anne of Green Gables have a few similarities between them. Maud’s father was alive for the first twenty-six years of her life but Maud was raised her elderly grandparents. Anne’s parents died when she was a baby, and she lived with Morella and Matthew Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister. Maud and Anne had a love for nature; they would talk to flowers and hug trees. Most places that existed in Maud’s world existed in Anne’s and girls had some great adventures through haunted Woods down a pathway called Lover’s Lane that leads from Green gables to a meadow.
Lucy went to Prince Albert Saskatchewan on August 16th 1890 to visit her father and stepmother. She was very unhappy and on August 25th 1891 she returned to PEI .
Maud’s first poem “One Cape Leforce” was published in The Daily Patriot on November 26th 1890.In September 1893 Lucy starts teachers training course at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown PEI . She taught school for the first time in July 1894 at Biddeford and then in 1896 at Belmont . Lucy started studying English in 1895 at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia and 1897 becomes secretly engaged to Edwin Simpson her second cousin. In 1900 her father dies and she starts working at the Daily Echo newspaper in Halifax from 1901-02. In 1905 Lucy started writing Anne of Green Gables and it was public in 1908.
Maud became engaged to Reverend Ewen Macdonald in 1906 and after the death of her grandmother, they were married on July 5th 1911. After the honeymoon, they moved to Leaskdale and started a family Chester in July 7th 1912, Hugh in August 13th 1914, he was stillborn and on October 7th 1915
Stuart was born.
Maud was the first Canadian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England in January 1923. In February 1926 Ewen became the minister at two Presbyterian churches at Norval and Union Ontario. Maud moved the family to the manse in Norval.
In 1935 Ewan retired from the ministry, Lucy and the family moved to Toronto .
Lucy is elected to the Literacy and Artistic Institute of France and is made an officer in the Order of the British Empire in 1935.
In April 24th 1942 Lucy dies and is buried in Cavendish PEI . There were 13 books published after Maud’s death. In 2008, Maud’s books and movies are still popular all over the world.
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