Just in time for International Women's Day, there's a new Heritage Minute about the writer of the beloved Anne of Green Gables books, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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The video is gorgeous, showing the sweeping "ruby, emerald, and sapphire” landscape of Prince Edward Island. But it also shows another side of the renowned author, who struggled with depression and sexism in the publishing industry.
The voiceover is excerpts from Montgomery's journals, and mentions the "dark moods" she experienced.
Although she went on to be a best-selling author and was famous within her lifetime, she was rejected multiple times when she first tried to publish Anne.
"They say a woman shouldn't write. Some days I almost give up. But I cannot contain my imagination."
Montgomery went on to write 20 novels and hundreds of poems and short stories before her death in 1942.
