Kate Scarth

You know, and again, you know, not everything has to go back to Ellen Montgomery, but I can't help it.

Oh, I'm so happy to be here.

Thanks for the invitation.

I've been a fan of the podcast for years, so it's such a delight to be here.

Well, I love how often you mention Ella Montgomery on the podcast and on the blog.

Yeah, you do.

Yes.

Right.

Well, and if you need an added incentive to read The Blue Castle this year, it is 100 years since it was published.

So it's a good year to read it in.

Yeah, that's right.

But yes, no, you absolutely, you are a good booster for Ellen Montgomery.

And yeah, the position, I mean, I went to PEI for the first time, Prince Edward Island, where Montgomery lived and the place she mostly wrote about.

And yeah, eight-year-old me was so excited to go to the

land of Anne.

But yeah, I definitely could not have conceived that the chair of Ella Montgomery Studies was the job that existed or that I would be that person one day.

So if you visited PEI when you were eight, where did you grow up?

I grew up in Newfoundland, so another island province on the east coast of Canada, but very different.

So if PEI is like gently rolling hills, very pastoral, agricultural, Newfoundland is rocky and has mostly relied on fishing and now oil and gas, but very much a study in contrast, even though they're kind of

all part of Atlantic Canada.