Anne of Green Gables Summary
Lucy Maud Montgomery

A popular and financially successful writer, Lucy Maud Montgomery MacDonald (1874-1942) is considered one of Canada's best known and most enduring authors.Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30,... Read more

If L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery had never written anything else, she would still be famous and beloved the world over for Anne of Green Gables (1908), her first published novel. In an appreciative no... Read more

Critical Review by New York Times Book Review “A Heroine from an Asylum.” New York Times Book Review (18 July 1908): 404. In the following review, the critic asserts that the character o... Read more

In the following essay, Jones examines the care and treatment of orphans in the late nineteenth century and the ways this is reflected in Anne of Green Gables. R.M.D., Route 3 Scotsburn Sta., Pictou C... Read more

In the following essay, Gay examines the reasons literary critics have tended to ignore Anne of Green Gables despite its status as one of the most beloved books for young people in the past hundred ye... Read more

In the following essay, Berg revisits Anne of Green Gables as a grown woman remembering what the novel meant to her as a girl. While it is impossible to verify the following statement, I do believe it... Read more

In the following essay, Drain discusses the pattern in Anne of Green Gables of a person becoming part of a community in order to successfully individuate and withdraw from it when necessary. Finding o... Read more

In the following essay, Santelmann explores the details of women's lives that are portrayed in Anne of Green Gables and the ways in which the novel advances the female literary tradition. In A ... Read more

In the following essay, Drain discusses the manner in which plot alterations in the television adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables shifted focus from Anne's maturat... Read more

There are many insecure and unconfident people in the world. Anne of Green Gables, written by L.M. Montgomery, has many characters that displayed these attributes. The novel is about eleven year old ... Read more