(Anne describes a similar friend named Katie Maurice from her miserable pre-Green Gables days.) Raised by her stern grandparents, Montgomery resorted to imaginary friends, which included her reflection in her grandmother’s china cabinet. Montgomery’s mother died when she was a toddler, and her father moved across Canada to start a new family. It turns out that much of Anne’s experience is based on her creator’s own lonely childhood. We wanted to be ready.įirst published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables was an “instant bestseller,” according to a sign at the heritage site.
Biking 50 to 60 kilometers each day for five days (a tour curated by PEI Cycling Tours) would take us past several pilgrimage sites, including Green Gables Heritage Place (a lovely national historic site), the Anne of Green Gables museum and Montgomery’s birthplace. In preparation, we decided to reread the first book in the Anne series.
But my dream of visiting persisted, so when three fellow Domer women and I - who first befriended each other during our London semester in 1983 - batted around the idea of a bike excursion, I went for it. Life, parenting and work get in the way, and suddenly you’re middle-aged, and your children are older than Anne was (11) in the first book. While I could meet Anne Shirley only in my imagination, I could literally walk in the footprints of her imagined steps across the island that inspired Anne’s creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery. I knew that Anne (with an ‘e,’ which is how my middle name at the time read, too) was a fictional character, but I also knew that that the evocative setting of her life was not. As a tween, I read that book at least three times, and also read the seven additional books that make up the whole series. The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations.I have wanted to visit Canada’s Prince Edward Island since I was 12 years old and first fell in love with Anne of Green Gables. Download cover art Download CD case insert Anne of Green Gables (version 3)
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