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 seventh novel in the «Anne of Green Gables» saga, «Rainbow Valley» finds Anne married with six children. The focus of «Rainbow Valley» is less upon Anne and more upon her neighbor, Presbyterian minister John Meredith and the interaction between his and Anne's children. This novel follows Anne at age forty-one and continues the tale of Lucy M. Montgomery's most popular and well-loved character.
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...
