Fans of the world famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery are celebrating her 141st birthday today and seems Google is also a huge fan.
The high-tech company is marking Montgomery’s birthday with a Google Doodle for its search engine.
The doodle features three videos, one of which will load randomly in place of the Google logo.
Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables series of books featuring the charming orphan Anne Shirley, was born in Clifton (now called New London), Prince Edward Island, on November 30, 1874, to Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill.
She wrote Anne of Green Gables, her first and most famous novel, in 1905. But the book almost never saw the light of day. After receiving several rejections from publishers in Canada and the United States, she put the manuscript away in a hat box. In 1907, she rediscovered the manuscript again and decided to try again to have it published. It was eventually accepted by the Page Company of Boston, Massachusetts and published in 1908. It was an immediate best-seller and marked the beginning of Montgomery’s successful career as a novelist.
In 1911, Montgomery married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald, to whom she had been secretly engaged since 1906. The couple moved to Ontario and spent the rest of their lives there. Montgomery returned to Prince Edward Island only for vacations. But she immortalized Canada’s smallest province through her prolific writing. All but one of her 20 books are set on Prince Edward Island.
Montgomery died in Toronto, Ontario, on April 24, 1942.
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