Pat saw her more clearly than Jingle did. The two passages, while markedly different in style, share definite similarities: For the first time, I realized that this scene was reminding me of another fascinating scene: the moment when Noel Streatfeild’s heroine Gemma Bow in Gemma Alone (1969) sees her mother Rowena Alston again after a gap of several years. One of my favorite scenes is when Jingle’s mother, Doreen Garrison, comes for a visit, and Pat is an onlooker to the uncomfortable reunion. It happened while I was recently rereading Montgomery’s Pat of Silver Bush (1933). I was so focused on the differences between these authors that I was surprised to find a possible connection between their books. I wrote to friends in a reading group: “My two favorite authors are stylistically dissimilar…I’ve read 20+ books by each of them and one author is very flowery, elegant, and artistic, while the other is matter-of-fact and concise. Montgomery and Noel Streatfeild, should have such different writing styles. I have often thought it interesting that my two favorite authors, L.M.
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