The Secret Dreamworld of a Jane Austen Fan

I’m in the depth of despair!! Alright, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I am rather annoyed!

I’ve been visiting my grandfather today, he lives in Uppsala, the 4th biggest city in Sweden. And as we went out for a walk we came across the Uppsala English Bookshop. And of course, being as book crazy as we are, we had to go in! It was a lovely shop! And it was such a relief to finally be in a real bookshop again! I can tell you, Swedish bookshops (apart from maybe one or two special ones) hardly deserve the name!

But that wasn’t what I wanted to tell you about. No, you see, in that shop the had a notice board put up, and on it was a notice for something called The L. M. Montgomery International Conference or something like that. It was a weekend with all these speakers! Authors, and literary scholars and also one of Montgomery’s own grandchild! According to the lady in the shop it was the first conference like this ever outside of North America! But the terrible thing is; it was last week!

So I missed it! I can’t believe I missed it! But I did!

So I am rather annoyed at having missed this, it sounded wonderful! But I have decide to check out the Montgomery society of Sweden, I didn’t know there existed one before. And maybe there is an Austen one too! I don’t know why I’ve never thought of checking before…!

Here you can read some more about the conference if you’d like.

In the shop they had a whole big shelf with only L.M. Montgomery books. Books by her and about her. I basically wanted them all!