Lucy Maud Montgomery: Google Doodle celebrates life of the author of Anne of Green Gables

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The latest Google Doodle celebrates the life of beloved author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), who wrote the Anne of Green Gables series.

The graphic celebrates what would have been her 141st birthday.

Mark Twain described Ms Montgomery's character Anne as "the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice".

Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Islands and locations within Canada's, which turned them into literary landmarks and popular tourist sites.

To celebrate Montgomery and her Google Doodle, here are five facts you didn’t know about her:

1. During her life, she published 20 novels, as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems and 30 essays.

2. She became the first Canadian woman to be named a member of the British Royal Society of Arts and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

3. Her grandfather, Donald Montgomery, was a member of the Senate of Canada.

4. When she first sent Anne of Green Gables to publishers in 1905 she was rejected by all of them. It wasn’t until 1908 that Page Company of Boston published the novel.

5. More than 100,000 people go to visit her place of birth in New London, on Prince Edward Island, every year.