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223Two sides of a Life storyJ.C. NevilleThis short story, signed “J.C. Neville” and appearing in one of Montgomery’s scrapbooks housed at the University of Guelph Library, uses non-fiction forms – the diary of Mrs. Fitzelroy, a letter written by William Cavendish – to tell a story of miscommunication and regret. As i discuss in more detail in the afterword to this volume, although Montgomery did not leave any evidence that she claimed authorship of this story – it appears in a scrapbook not otherwise concerned with her career – its style and motifs are unmistakably hers, and, furthermore, i have found evidence that she had republished one of her poems as “J.C. Neville” in 1908. But while the story cannot be dated until the original clipping is identified, it is worth noting that Montgomery placed it in a scrapbook following several pages of postcards and photographs pertaining to her honeymoon in England and scotland – meaning that, regardless of when it was written, she wanted it to beperceived as a story that followed the start of her own marriage