Anne Shirley is a fictional character introduced in the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. Shirley is featured throughout the classic book series, which revolves around her life and
Illustration from Anne of Avonlea
The portrait of model Evelyn Nesbit by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. which inspired Montgomery.
Green Gables, where Anne is raised by her adoptive parents.
Dalhousie University (then Dalhousie College), the institution on which Montgomery based Redmond College
Gilbert Blythe is a character in Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series of novels.
Anne Shirley
…Marilla call her "Cordelia" and "Geraldine" as Anne likes to imagine herself as somebody that she is not. Anne also formed a complex relationship with Gilbert Blythe, who was two years older than Anne but studying at her level, having had his schooling interrupted when his father became ill. On their first meeting…
Gilbert Blythe (left) as shown in a 1908 illustration