Book review of "The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume One: a life in print" by Benjamin Lefebvre (ed). Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4491-5
Bibliographic record
Abstract
[Extract] In this reader of previously uncollected materials, Benjamin Lefebvre sheds new light on L.M. Montgomery, a figure described by Irene Gammel as 'Canada's most enigmatic literary icon' (p. 5). In this first volume Lefebvre gathers eighty pieces ranging in date from the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908 until shortly after Montgomery's death in 1942. These materials include essays and letters written by Montgomery herself for various newspapers and periodicals, as well as a large collection of interviews and author profiles written about her that were published throughout her career. Many of these articles are hard to locate and largely inaccessible to the general public and scholarly community, ensuring that much of the content of this reader will be new even to long-standing Montgomery scholars and enthusiasts. Continuing in this vein, the second volume in this series, titled A Critical Heritage, will focus on reprinting 'milestones (p. 6) in Montgomery scholarship; the third, titled A Legacy in Review, will compile book reviews on Montgomery's work from newspapers, magazines and journals.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.086 | 0.059 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".