{"id":605,"date":"2011-06-02T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/?p=605"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:01:11","slug":"mauds-trousseau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Maud’s Trousseau"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Get to See Maud\u2019s Wedding Trousseau – June 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

In June 1911 L.M. Montgomery married Ewan Macdonald, to whom she\u2019d been secretly engaged for five years. The engagement was long and secret because Montgomery was obligated to live with and look after her grandmother in their little house in Cavendish, PEI. Maud\u2019s grandmother — her mother\u2019s mother, born Lucy Anne Woolner — died, after suffering from \u201cgrippe\u201d in March 1911.<\/p>\n

After she came to Leaskdale, Maud wrote an account of the months after her grandmother\u2019s death:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that poor grandmother had gone there was no longer any reason for delaying my already long-deferred marriage and it was arranged that Ewan and I should be married early in July. A little over a year previously he had left P.E. Island and taken a congregation in Leaskdale, Ont. I felt badly over the prospect of leaving the Island. But since I had left Cavendish it did not matter so much…<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a very busy spring, preparing for my marriage and new home — so busy that most of my ordinary pursuits were dropped for the time being….<\/p>\n

\u201c…My trousseau, which I had made mainly in Toronto and Montreal, began to arrive and we were all interested in that. My things were pretty. I had worn black for grandmother all the spring but I laid it aside when I was married, My wedding dress was of white-silk crepe de soie with tunic of chiffon and pearl bead trimming — and of course the tulle veil and orange blossom wreath.\u201d Selected Journals Volume 2, page 61<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 2 of the Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery <\/em>contains photographs of Maud modelling six of the outfits she had made for her trousseau ( page 65). For the 100th anniversary of Maud\u2019s marriage and move to Ontario, reproductions of the outfits have been commissioned by Tourism PEI. The new garments have been completed with attention to authentic details like colour, fabric, trim, and closings (no zippers!).<\/p>\n

Now we are delighted to announce that the reproduced dresses will arrive in Leaskdale in early June, on loan\u00a0 to the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society. The trousseau will be displayed during the summer and fall in the master bedroom of the manse.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one other reason to put the Historic Leaskdale Sites on your list of places to visit in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Barb Pratt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We Get to See Maud\u2019s Wedding Trousseau – June 2011 In June 1911 L.M. Montgomery married Ewan Macdonald, to whom she\u2019d been secretly engaged for five years. The engagement was long and secret because Montgomery was obligated to live with and look after her grandmother in their little house in Cavendish, PEI. Maud\u2019s grandmother — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manse"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucymaudmontgomery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}