![]() ![]() ![]() It’s probably been almost 10 years since I read The Blue Castle, and before that I was in my teens. I noticed this time around that there were several times I found myself wondering why I love this book so much. Stokes saying that “they have done so well with it that he wants me to write another similar to it as soon as possible.” Which, I believe, becomes A Tangled Web. She writes in her journal on Jan.22, 1927 that she received a letter from Mr. However, she did enjoy much success with The Blue Castle. ![]() “While she was censored for mentioning an unwed mother (who dies, no less), young writers like Callaghan were earning praise for sympathetic treatment of down-and-outers and prostitutes.” LMM found herself facing the same unfairness her characters must face. But it was often treated like a children’s book anyway. As a result, “its mature subject got it banned for children in a number of places”. According to Mary Henley Rubio in The Gift of Wings, she was tired of being pegged only as a children’s author. When she wrote The Blue Castle, LMM had intended it to be for adults. It has been for several months a daily escape from a world of intolerable realities.” (Mar. It seemed a refuge from the cares and worries of my real world.” (Feb. Montgomery Volume III: 1921-1929, she writes “I have enjoyed writing it very much. Unlike the last Emily book, LMM enjoyed writing The Blue Castle. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote The Blue Castlein 1924, at the same time as she was attempting to write Emily’s Quest. ![]()
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