Once her critical descent started, Maud's (L.M. Montgomery's) loss of status would continue steadily until her death. Not until near the end of the twentieth century, long after she was dead, would literary critics dismantle and discredit the norms that the entire generation of academic critics had worked so hard to establish in the 1930s, norms that pushed popular fiction -- and almost all women's writing -- completely out of the canon and off the map of literary culture.-- Mary Henley Rubio, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
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