![]() ![]() She’s fanciful, exuberant and spontaneous and believes “A young girl needs as much time to dream as possible,” surely making her a deliberate precursor of Anne Shirley. Catharines, arrives in time to cheer her twin sister through the impending birth and ends up being Marilla’s new role model. ![]() It’s clear she’s smitten.Īunt Izzy, a dressmaker from St. John Blythe offers to bring her the school readings she’s missed out on, and later invites her to the Avonlea May Picnic. Brother Matthew is 21 and testing out adulthood, but Marilla is just 13 and impressionable. ![]() Montgomery’s parents), in the months before her new sibling is to arrive. So although Marilla of Green Gables begins in 1876 with a short prologue in which Matthew and Marilla decide to ‘get a boy’ to help around the place, most of it is set in 1837–8, with Marilla taking a break from her schooling to assist her parents, Hugh and Clara (it’s no coincidence that these are the names of L.M. Just like Anne, she wanted to know the story behind that offhand remark. McCoy was inspired by the brief moment in Anne of Green Gables when Marilla tells Anne that John Blythe used to be her beau. There’s no doubt about it: fans of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne series will throng to read Sarah McCoy’s prequel. ![]()
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