About Rita Bode Rita Bode, professor of English literature at Trent University, is co-editor, with Jean Mitchell, of L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), and with Lesley D. Clement of L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911–1942. Books by Rita Bode Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery Continuing Conversations edited by Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, E. Holly Pike & Margaret Steffler L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) edited by Rita Bode & Jean Mitchell L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 by (author) Rita Bode & Lesley D. Clement L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys The Ontario Years, 1911-1961 by (author) Rita Bode & Lesley D. Clement