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Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables, was born in Clifton which is now New London, Prince Edward Island on November 30, 1874 but she was raised by her
grandparents, Alexander and Lucy Macneill who lived in Cavendish. Thirty-four years later in 1908, she wrote her first novel, Anne of Green Gables while living in her grandparent's home. Lucy
Maud died in 1942 and at the time of her death she had published over twenty books, hundreds of short stories and poems. She is buried on Prince Edward Island in the Cavendish cemetary. Her
birthplace home in New London is now a museum where you can see a replica of the old blue chest made famous in her writings, the author's wedding dress, veil and shoes, and her personal scrapbooks.
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