Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary
Melanie Rehak
Looking for Anne of Green Gables:
The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
by Irene Gammel
St. Martin's Press
$27.95 List Price
When asked why she had decided to give red hair to her famous heroine, Anne Shirley (better known as Anne of Green Gables to legions of little girls the world over), author Maud Montgomery replied, “I didn’t. It was red.” The question of whether Anne, the passionate orphan with a temper and a penchant for puffy sleeves, really sprang fully formed from her creator’s head—Athena to Montgomery’s Zeus—is the driving force
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