Anne Bogel

Anything you want to tell us about?

Yes.

That or I feel like this is happening less, but UPS delivered it to the wrong house.

One star.

I'm so curious to hear how your professional work might inform your reading life.

What I'm imagining is you are very steeped in the life and work of one of our major artists of the 20th century in Canada, widely read in the US and widely read around the world.

I really loved especially the international tidbits in your great course.

Actually, would you tell everybody about that for a moment?

I'm so glad I listened to the life and work of Ellen Montgomery lecture series that you did.

for the great courses before we spoke today because it was pure fun mostly kate but i do feel like i have a better handle on what you do what i'm really curious about not so much is what they will find there because those who want to find it will certainly find it is what are some of the misconceptions what are some things that people are often shocked to learn as you see it or that you find that we get wrong or that the culture gets wrong about the the artist and her works

Because I've said Anne as shorthand many times, but Ellen Montgomery wrote many books besides the Anne of Green Gables series.

And I think also that people make a lot of assumptions about Montgomery herself.

And she was very much on board with them being published one day.

Do I remember you saying that?

I appreciate you speaking to that.

And it's so interesting to hear you talk about the way she edited her journals, because when I had heard her journals referred to as literature in the past, I took that to mean quality and purpose.

I was not at all thinking about the process by which they were written.

That's so interesting.

What would you say to anyone contemplating a trip of their own to PEI and surrounds?

And, you know, we should tell readers that in March 2023, we hosted an episode with Rosalyn in which she had recently returned from an intergenerational book pilgrimage to PEI that was motivated 100% by Anna Green Gables and her and her daughter's love for it.