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Overview

In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 35 languages (including Braille). The author who created her was Lucy Maud Montgomery, a writer who revealed very little of herself and her method of crafting a story. On the centenary of its publication, Irene Gammel tells the braided story of both Anne and Maud and, in so doing, shows how a literary classic was born. Montgomery’s own life began in the rural Cavendish family farmhouse on ...

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Overview

In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 35 languages (including Braille). The author who created her was Lucy Maud Montgomery, a writer who revealed very little of herself and her method of crafting a story. On the centenary of its publication, Irene Gammel tells the braided story of both Anne and Maud and, in so doing, shows how a literary classic was born. Montgomery’s own life began in the rural Cavendish family farmhouse on Prince Edward Island, the place that became the inspiration for Green Gables. Mailmen brought the world to the farmhouse’s kitchen door in the form of American mass market periodicals sparking the young Maud’s imagination. From the vantage point of her small world, Montgomery pored over these magazines, gleaning bits of information about how to dress, how to behave and how a proper young lady should grow. She began to write, learning how to craft marketable stories from the magazines’ popular fiction; at the same time the fashion photos inspired her visual imagination. One photo that especially intrigued her was that of a young woman named Evelyn Nesbit, the model for painters and photographers and lover of Stanford White. That photo was the spark for what became Anne Shirley. Blending biography with cultural history, Looking for Anne of Green Gables is a gold mine for fans of the novels and answers a trunk load of questions: Where did Anne get the “e” at the end of her name? How did Montgomery decide to give her red hair? How did Montgomery’s courtship and marriage to Reverend Ewan Macdonald affect the story? Irene Gammel's dual biography of Anne Shirley and the woman who created her will delight the millions who have loved the red haired orphan ever since she took her first step inside the gate of Green Gables farm in Avonlea.

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Kate Bolick
…a well-researched if occasionally overreachingdual biography of Anne and her creator. Much has been written about Anne's enduring appeal, by academics and critics debating her proto-feminist status or unpacking her influence on children's literature. Less known is her genesis, and it's this "perfect storm of inspiration" reconstructed by Gammel, a professor of English at Ryerson University.
—The New York Times
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Anne of Green Gables may be one of the most beloved of books, selling more than 50 million copies since it was first published 100 years ago. But according to Ryerson, a Canadian scholar and co-chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, Anne's creator was both secretive and "an emotional and forceful advocate of her own legend." So Ryerson seeks out the truth about Montgomery and the writing of her novel, including the possible sources for Anne Shirley, a high-spirited, irrepressibly optimistic, redheaded Canadian orphan. Among Anne's antecedents were the bestselling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and a proliferation of stories and poems about orphan girls named Ann, such as James Whitcomb Riley's popular nursery rhyme "Little Orphan Annie," based on a girl orphaned during the Civil War. Montgomery's fear of aging and outsider status as a motherless child brought up by aging grandparents also fed into her image of Anne as did her adopted cousin Ellen Macneill, also an orphan. But this lackluster study won't find many takers beyond Montgomery scholars and rabid Anne Shirley fans. 16 pages of color photos. (July)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312382377
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 7/8/2008
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 11
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 6.46 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.17 (d)

Meet the Author

IRENE GAMMEL is an English professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto. She has served as president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association and as an editorial board member of Canadian Literature. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents


Prologue: The Mystery of Anne of Green Gables     13
The Perfect Storm, Fall 1903-Spring 1905
Old Memories and New Ambitions     19
The Model for Anne's Face     31
Building Castles in Spain     40
The Orphan Girl and the Snow Queen     58
Writing Anne, Spring 1905-Winter 1907
Romantic Orchards, Kindred Spririts, and a Spring Flirtation     77
Maud's Bosom Friends     89
Pagan Love and Sacred Promises: Anne and Diana     100
Good Enemies and Old Love Letters     111
Wicked Satire in Small-Town Avonlea     124
This Old Place Has a Soul, Green Gables     137
Red Hair, Puffed Sleeves, and the Rituals of Growing Up     169
Farewells and Decisions     185
The Mystery of Anne Revealed     207
Anne Takes Off, Spring 1907-Fall 1938
The Most Popular Summer Girl     223
The Vows Kept for Life     241
Epilogue: Dramatis Personae     258
Abbreviations     263
Endnotes     265
Selected Bibliography     293
Acknowledgments     306
Index     308
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