Maud always knew she wanted to become a writer. She began keeping a diary in 1883, and in her lifetime, she would write over five thousand diary entries. She took a teacher's training course in 1892, and began teaching in 1894 in Bideford, P.E.I. Her teaching job helped her to raise enough money to attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for one year. When Maud returned to her hometown, she continued teaching.
Lucy Maud Montgomery later married to the Reverend Ewan MacDonald, and in 1911, they traveled to Scotland and England on a honeymoon.
Maud wrote her first novel Anne of Green Gables in 1905, and it instantly became a classic. Many more novels would follow, and in her lifetime she would write over thirty novels, many poems, articles and essays.
On April 24, 1942, L.M. Montgomery died at the age of 70. She was buried in the Cavendish cemetary in P.E.I. Her husband died a year later.
