Emily Climbs

Emily Climbs is the second in a series of three novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1925. While the legal battle with Montgomery's publishing company (L.C. Page) continued, Montgomery's husband Ewan MacDonald continued to suffer clinical depression. Montgomery, tired of writing her better known Anne of Green Gables series, created a new heroine, a young orphan girl named Emily Byrd Starr. At the same time as writing, Montgomery was also copying her journal from her early years. The biographical elements heavily influenced the Emily trilogy.