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Ann of green Gables


Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery published as L. M. Montgomery, is best known for her series of novels beginning 1908’s Anne of Green Gables. In her lifetime she would  publish 20 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.


She married Ewen Macdonald a Presbyterian minister who was known as a dense man, not interested in literature or his wife’s writings. Macdonald was probably mentally ill when Montgomery married him.
It appears to have been a strained and loveless marriage with Montgomery once telling a reporter that those women whom God wanted to destroy He would make into the wives of ministers.
Soon after the marriage started she fell victim to mental depression in part due to her husband's attacks of religious melancholia (endogenous major depressive disorder) and deteriorating health.
 (Montgomery wrote in her diary that she could not stand looking at her husband's face, when he had that "horrible imbecile expression on his face" and that to her husband "A woman is a thing of no importance intellectually-the plaything and servant of man-and couldn't possibly do anything that would be worthy of a real tribute".)
 In 1918, she was struck with and almost died from the Spanish Flu pandemic (It would kill between 50-100 million people all over the world in 1918-1919) Although she nearly died her husband was indifferent to it all. But she stayed with the marriage even while her husband, who believed in predestination, had become convinced that he was not one of "the Elect" chosen by God to go to Heaven, leading him to spend hours depressed and staring into space. He often told his wife that he wished she and their children had never been born as they were also not of "the Elect", and all of them were going to Hell when they died as he believed that they were all predestined to be among the "damned".


MacDonald refused to assist with raising the children or the housework, and was given over to erratic, reckless driving as if he was deliberately trying to get himself killed in a car crash, as perhaps he was. In 1925, MacDonald ran over a Methodist minister he had a dispute with, however he wasn’t charged.   
In 1934, Montgomery's husband signed himself into a sanatorium in Canada and after his release a drug store accidently sold him a pill laced with insecticide instead of an antidepressant.  He became notably paranoid after this incident, accusing Montgomery of attempting to murder him, and in his more lucid mental states, he beat her. Otherwise he alternated between moments of passivity, where he became catatonic, staring into space for hours with blank, empty eyes; and more cogent mental states, where he declared he hated God for making him one of "the damned", would never preach again, and beat Montgomery for supposedly trying to kill him.
Montgomery in the meantime, was battling depression and eventually became addicted to bromides and barbiturates that the doctors had given her to help treat her depression. On April 24, 1942, Montgomery was found dead in her bed in her Toronto home. The primary cause of death recorded on her death certificate was coronary thrombosis. However, her granddaughter  revealed that Montgomery may have taken her own life through a drug overdose.