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I’m not sure if it is of any interest (and I can’t shed any light on Mary Royce unfortunately) but there is at least one cultural reference in “The Old Path Round the Shore” that might be worthy of note. In line 16, Anne writes “the world forgetting”, which is a quote from Alexander Pope’s “Eloisa to Abelard” (“the world forgetting by the world forgot”), which was last referenced by Montgomery in Chp 23 of Anne of Avonlea in relation to Miss Lavendar. The major theme of Pope’s poem is about remembering a doomed love from long ago, which is mirrored in the tragic nature of Miss Lavendar’s love for Stephen Irving and the narrator’s/ Mary Royce’s lost love in “The Old Path Round the Shore”.



Hopefully a Montgomery scholar can help us out on who Mary Royce is exactly though.