Page’s terms were not generous even for an emerging author: 10 per cent royalty on the wholesale price, an insistence on acquiring world rights, and a clause binding her on the same terms for any subsequent books written in the next five years. Page Company of Boston, of whom Montgomery claimed to know nothing. The book eventually found a home with the L.C. Like many of her contemporaries, Montgomery did not consider submitting her first novel to a Canadian publisher, convinced that a more lucrative deal could be made with an American firm. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery (1874-1942) also had a steady career in the North American periodical market, publishing well over one thousand short stories, poems, and essays in a range of magazines and newspapers between 18.
Although best known for her break-out first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), L.M.
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