Kate Scarth
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So she really had a powerful visual imagination.
She was kind of a conscious magpie.
She loved to collect tidbits about her life.
She kept scrapbooks.
She wrote poems.
She wrote 21 novels.
She wrote hundreds of short stories.
Very astute businesswoman.
you know, knew what publications would want to publish what kind of stories.
And so, you know, she would be very strategic about that.
She loved fashion.
She liked to be the best dressed person in a room.
She took great pride in her household management as well and baking and cooking and loved to eat.
And so, yeah, I think that that is something that's just so fascinating about her.
It's so much more than Anna Green Gables.
Yeah.
So in the 1980s, her journal, so her diaries, which she kept for decades, started to be published.
And there are a lot of challenges in those.
Her marriage was at times difficult.
She and her husband both had mental health issues.