The Scribes of Uxbridge, a memoir writing group, has published a chapbook titled In Lucy Maud’s Style. The collected stories were written in the style of author L.M. Montgomery, who lived in the nearby hamlet of Leaskdale from 1911 to 1926, to commemorate Uxbridge’s “100 Years of Anne.” It was 100 years ago that Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery, who was born in P.E.I., wrote 11 of her 22 books while living in Leaskdale Manse. She moved in 1926 to Norval, where she lived for nine years before moving finally to Toronto. She died there in 1942.
In Lucy Maud’s Style contains fourteen original stories, one of them by 90-year-old Scribes member Marion Owen. The Scribes (formerly called the Senior Scribes) was formed in 1989 by students who had taken a creative writing course at Trent University and felt inspired to continue meeting. With occasional changes in membership, they have been getting together to write twice a month ever since.
Heather Beveridge, a member of the Scribes, participated in more than one of my online workshops and invited me to speak to her group about memoir writing.
Hi there: we used to live in Uxbridge and I belonged to the Senior Scribes…this was approx. 11-12 yrs ago. Marion Owen was one of the members…Phyllis Watson was another. Anyway, we published a book of our short stories…it was called Seasoned By Time (or Seasoned In Time)….I have been trying to get a copy of that book as I gave mine to my granddaughter and she cannot find it. Could you possibly let me know if there is still one perhaps at the bookshop in uxbridge or wherever???
Many thanks 🙂