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“Sex matters”: L. M. Montgomery, Friendship, and Sexuality
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 40, 2012
- pp. 167-190
- 10.1353/chl.2012.0017
- Article
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In L.M. Montgomery’s journals, the figure of Isabel, a spinster schoolteacher who stalked the writer, works to establish Montgomery’s own love for women as normal in an era in which pathologizes women’s same-sex friendships. Moreover, Montgomery’s “heterosexualizing” of herself maintains the centrality and legitimacy of her own long-standing female attachments.