Key Dates
These dates are recorded in Maud’s journal
September 21, 1889: Maud starts a new journal
November 12, 1889: Nate Lockhart walks Maud home from Rev. Mr. Carruthers’ talk
November 22, 1889: Maud’s first performance at the Literary Concert
December 2, 1889: School Trial between Clemmie and Annie
February 18, 1890: Maud receives Nate’s love letter
August 9, 1890: Leaves for Prince Albert
August 20, 1890: Arrives in Prince Albert
September 1, 1890: Starts Prince Albert High School
Fall 1890: Maud meets Laura and Will Pritchard
December 7, 1890: Maud’s First Publication, “On Cape LeForce” published
December 24, 1890: Presbyterian Church Christmas Concert
February 1891: “The Wreck of Marco Polo” published
May 13, 1891: Will steals Maud’s ring
May 31, 1891: Maud discusses writing June
Spring 1891: Will carves Maud’s name in a tree
July 1, 1891: Mr. Mustard proposes to Maud
July 5, 1891: Maud visits Laurel Hill
August 1, 1891: Maud and Will exchange ten-year letters
June 1891: “A Western Eden” is published in the Prince Albert Times
August 1891: “Farewell” poem published
August 26, 1891: Leaves Prince Albert
September 5, 1891: Arrives PEI
October 1891: “From Prince Albert to P.E. Island” published
February 16, 1892: Returns to Park Corner to teach music lessons
June 8, 1892: Returns to Cavendish
June 21, 1892: Sees Nate for the first time since he left
August 15, 1892: Returns to the Cavendish school to prepare for exams
Key Dates of Maud and Her Friends During Her Life Time
November 30, 1874: Maud’s Birthday
1893-1894: Attends Prince of Wales College and earns her Teaching Certificate
1894-1895: Teaches in Bidford, PEI
1895-1896: Attends Dalhousie University
1896-1897: Teaches in Belmont PEI and becomes secretly engaged to Edwin Simpson
April 2, 1897: Will Pritchard dies of influenza
1897-1898: Teaches in Lower Bedeque PEI and falls in love with Herman Leard, breaking her engagement with Edwin
1898: Grandfather Alexander Macneill dies and Maud returns to Cavendish to live with her grandmother
1901-1902: Becomes a newspaperwoman for the Daily Echo in Halifax
1903: Meets the man who will be her husband, Ewan Macdonald
1906: Becomes secretly engaged to Ewan
Spring 1905: Begins writing Anne of Green Gables
April 15, 1907: Anne of Green Gables is accepted for publication by L.C. Page Co. of Boston:
June 20, 1908: Maud holds her first book, Anne of Green Gables, in her hands
1909: Anne of Avonlea (dedicated to Miss Gordon) published
1919: Frede Campbell Macfarlane dies of the Spanish Flu
1920: Rilla of Ingleside (dedicated to Frede) is published
March 5, 1911: Grandmother Lucy Woolner Macneill dies
July 5, 1911: Maud marries Ewan Macdonald and moves to Leaskdale, Ontario
July 7, 1912: First son, Chester, is born
August 13, 1914: Second son, Hugh Alexander dies at birth
October 7, 1915: Third son, Ewan Stuart, born
1917: Anne’s House of Dreams (dedicated to Laura) is published and Maud votes for the first time
1926: Maud moves to Norval, Ontario
1930: Maud returns to Prince Albert: 1930
1935: Maud moves to “Journey’s End,” in Toronto, Ontario and is awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1939: Maud’s final book, Anne of Ingleside (which is dedicated to Will Pritchard), is published
April 24, 1942: Maud’s death
