First published in 1909, “Anne of Avonlea” is Lucy M. Montgomery’s second installment in the much loved “Anne of Green Gables” book series. Following the life of Anne Shirley from age sixteen to eighteen this chapter in Anne’s life sees her having left Green Gables for the grown up world of Avonlea where she is to begin a job teaching school. Gilbert Blythe, who we are introduced to in the first book as Anne’s enemy, is now a good friend teaching at the nearby White Sands School. Anne studies at...
The eighth and final novel in the «Anne of Green Gables» saga, «Rilla of Ingleside» focuses on Anne's youngest daughter the fifteen year-old Bertha Marilla «Rilla» Blythe. Set against the back drop of the First World War, the irrepressible Rilla, with her sisters away at college and her brothers away at war, is left anxiously at home where she organizes the junior Red Cross and mothers a neglected «war-baby». «Rilla of Ingleside» concludes the saga of Lucy M. Montgomery's most popular...
It is certainly hard to begin reading Rilla of Ingleside, knowing it is the eighth and final book in the Anne of Green Gables series. When it was written in 1921 it was actually the sixth book that L.M. Montgomery wrote in the series. Years later she would add Anne of Windy Poplars as the fourth book and Anne of Ingleside as the sixth, pushing this one to eighth place. The title character is Rilla, born Bertha Marilla Blythe (named for Annes mother and the old maid who adopted the red-headed...
More Than A Book – The Continuing Adventures of a Friend: Anne of the Island is no less wonderful than the books preceeding it or following it. Like all the books, it has a blend of humour and poignancy; joy and sorrow. The key drawcards of the Anne books are the characters. They are lovable, good, kind, wholesome folk who make you care about them and want to know what happens next. Incredibly vivid characters, it was no exaggeration to say that Anne was my childhood best friend – she was as...
When Marilla Cuthberts brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl. Its not long, though, before the Cuthberts cant imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables–but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. <p> Somewhere between the time Anne confesses to losing Marillas amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic,...
