Alexia Léveillée's Blog

 Hello everyone, and welcome back! If you have been following my blog, you know that I love reading. Last time I wrote about one of my favourite British authors, Jane Austen, who published her novels during the first half of the nineteenth century. Today, I will write about my favourite Canadian author, L.M. Montgomery. She lived almost a century later and produced many great works, some of which might be familiar to you. Here is the source that I used for my research:  https://lmmontgomery.ca/about/lmm/her-life https://www.anneofgreengables.com/blog/l-m-montgomery-a-woman-history-cant-forget     Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874, in Clifton (now called New London) on Prince Edward Island. Her mother passed away when she was 21 months old. Shortly after, her father left her with her maternal grandparents in Cavendish, deciding to head east and eventually settling in Saskatchewan and remarrying.       Even if Montgomery lived only ...

     Hi, everyone, and welcome back to my blog! If you read my last blog post, you already know that I love to read. The books I usually read are English literature classics, and my favourite authors lived during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Today, I will write about one of my favourite authors, Jane Austen. By the end of this post, I hope you will be just as excited as I am about reading her novels. https://www.freeimages.com/photo/portrait-of-jane-austen-1890759 Here is the source that I used for my research: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Austen      Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, a village in Hampshire, England. She was the seventh child and second daughter to Reverend George Austen, rector of Steventon and Cassandra Austen, née Leigh. Her only sister, Cassandra (who shared their mother's name), was her closest companion throughout her life. http://www.lifeafterlondon.com/hampshire-why-move-to-hampshi...