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Works by L.M. Montgomery with their own pages:

• Anne of Green Gables
• The Blue Castle
• Emily Of New Moon
• Jane of Lantern Hill
• A Tangled Web
• The Story Girl

Tropes found in other works:

• Actually That's My Assistant
• Arcadia: Prince Edward Island, when you're not roaming its Ghibli Hills. Farmers who work in harmony with the land are a frequent appearance.
• Baby Doll Baby: In Magic for Marigold, a Lesley family heirloom is a life-size wax doll of a baby that some long-deceased family member had made of her own baby, who died. The mother not only dressed the doll in her baby's clothes, but carried it with her, talked to it, and slept with it as if it were real.
• Badass Grandma: Appear rather frequently, most notable example is Old Grandmother in Magic for Marigold.
• Children Are Innocent / Children Are Special: Most prominently found in Magic For Marigold.
• Contrived Coincidence: "The Materialization of Duncan Mc Tavish"
• Cute Mute: Kilmeny, from Kilmeny of the Orchard, has been secluded and sheltered for all of her life, and retains a childlike simplicity.
• The Edwardian Era: Notable in the Emily books, when Emily meets a slightly loopy woman who happily tells the story of "The day I spanked the king" (read: Edward.)
• The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Much furor about Marigold in Magic for Marigold before someone tells her the problem they fear is head lice.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Almost all of her heroines have some talent at housekeeping and cooking. Justified, as they are all of a social class and era when cooking would be in a woman's basic skill set. A notable exception is the Story Girl from the novel of the same name and The Golden Road.
  • Jane in particular takes to cooking like a duck to water, feeding both herself and her father, even though she was never allowed to cook before. She does prudently buy a cookbook first, and donuts defeat her.
• The Gay Nineties: Although the characters aren't exactly off to live the "gay" life, for the most part. Earlier stories of hers have Queen Victoria cited as the reigning monarch, and several times characters express respect for her.
• Ghibli Hills: Prince Edward Island, from the red dust of its roads to the gentle moaning of the sea, which is never far off.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Montgomery frequently revisits the character of the widowed mother who is fanatically attached to her only begotten son, and fiercely jealous of any romantic attachments in his life.
• Growing Up Sucks: This trope hits Marigold Lesley hardest. She completely loses her ability to imagine Sylvia, her dear imaginary friend.
• Imaginary Friend: The more isolated characters have these, including Anne before she is adopted, Emily and Marigold (whose father also had imaginary friends).
• The Matchmaker: "The Education Of Betty"
• Matchmaker Crush: "The Education of Betty"
• Nature Lover: Many heroines.
• New Technology Is Evil: A fairly common trope in Montgomery's work. The Murrays in the Emily series are considered old-fashioned by their neighbors for using candles instead of kerosene lamps, and in "Pat of Silver Bush" makes fun of her cousins for getting their water from a tap.
  • The trope is downplayed with and lampshaded by Anne in "Anne of Avonlea" when she acknowledges her misgivings about telephones are probably sentimental and unrealisitc.
  • Interestingly, Montgomery's ambivalence about new technology did not extend to cars, which are portrayed very positively in later works such as "The Blue Castle" and "Jane of Lantern Hill."
• Old Maid: the heroine of "The Materialization of Duncan Mc Tavish,"
• Orphan's Ordeal: Anne. Emily. For starters. And there's a whole book of short stories (Akin to Anne) dedicated to nothing but orphan's ordeals.
• The Penance
• Proper Lady: Pat of Silver Bush, to name one.
• The Promise: Treated very darkly in Kilmeny of the Orchard. Kilmeny's aunt and uncle fervently believe her muteness is owed to a vow of silence taken by her mother during her pregnancy, to never speak another word to the father that rejected her. Even when her father lay dying and asked his daughter to speak one word of reconciliation, Kilmeny's mother refused. She didn't speak a word until after her baby's birth, when she broke down sobbing.
• Race for Your Love: "Here Comes the Bride"
• Real Name as an Alias: "The Pot and the Kettle"
• Rebellious Princess: Varvara, a Russian princess, runs away from her aunt and spends an afternoon playing with Marigold.
• The Speechless: Kilmeny.
• Spank the Cutie: A Spirited Young Lady in an L.M. Montgomery novel is likely to be told at least once that she needs a good spanking.
• The Storyteller: The Story Girl, true to her name, is the most prominent, to the point that most people forget her real name is Sarah. Emily comes quite close, though.
• Wife Husbandry: "The Education of Betty" By accident.