Kilmeny of the Orchard

Kilmeny of the Orchard
First edition
Author	Lucy Maud Montgomery
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre	Romance novel
Publication date	1910
Media type	Print (Paperback, Hardcover)

Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is the story of a young man named Eric Marshall who goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets Kilmeny, a mute girl who has perfect hearing. He sees her when he is walking through an old orchard and hears her playing the violin. He visits her a number of times and gradually falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return, believing that her disability will only hinder his life if they were married, despite his protests that it wouldn't matter at all. Meanwhile, Eric's good friend David who is a renowned throat doctor, comes to the island and visits Eric. He examines Kilmeny, and says that nothing will cure her but an extreme psychological need to speak. This need comes soon when Neil Gordon, who is Kilmeny's brother and madly jealous of Eric, comes behind Eric with an axe, meaning to kill him. Kilmeny is nearby, and without thinking, she yells to Eric to look behind him: she can now speak. Neil runs away on a ship, and Kilmeny and Eric get married.

External links

KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD on-line text of BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative
L.M. Montgomery Online Formerly the L.M. Montgomery Research Group, this site includes a blog, extensive lists of primary and secondary materials, detailed information about Montgomery's publishing history, and a filmography of screen adaptations of Montgomery texts. See, in particular, the page about Kilmeny of the Orchard.
L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers
Kilmeny of the Orchard An L. M. Montgomery Resource Page
The L.M. Montgomery Literary Society This site includes information about Montgomery's works and life and research from the newsletter, The Shining Scroll. Learn more about the original version of Kilmeny, called Una of the Garden, on our Items of Interest Related to LMM page.
Kilmeny of the Orchard public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Works by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Novels

Anne of Green Gables series	Anne of Green Gables (1908) Anne of Avonlea (1909) Anne of the Island (1915) Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) Anne's House of Dreams (1917) Anne of Ingleside (1939) Rainbow Valley (1919) Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

Emily trilogy	Emily of New Moon (1923) Emily Climbs (1925) Emily's Quest (1927)

Pat of Silver Bush	Pat of Silver Bush (1932) Mistress Pat (1935)

The Story Girl	The Story Girl (1911) The Golden Road (1913)

Miscellaneous	Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) The Blue Castle (1926) Magic for Marigold (1929) A Tangled Web (1931) Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

Short story collections

Poetry

The Watchman & Other Poems (1916)
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1987)

Non-fiction

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1917)
Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Vol. I–V (1985–2004)

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