People on Demonstration notebook — Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley

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The narrator of this notebook. Born in Nova Scotia, orphaned at three months, brought up in other people’s houses until, at eleven, she was sent by mistake to a farm in Avonlea that had asked for a boy. Teacher, then writer, then doctor’s wife and the mother of seven children, one of whom lived only a day.

Bertha Shirley

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Captain Jim

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Keeper of the Four Winds light when Anne and Gilbert came to the harbour; an old sailor with a lifetime of stories and no gift, he said, for writing them down. The first person Anne’s son was named for.

Cornelia Bryant

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Davy Keith

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Di Blythe

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Diana Barry

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Anne’s friend from the farm across the brook, from the age of eleven to the end. Not a reader, not a dreamer, and the most loyal person Anne ever knew.

Dora Keith

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Gilbert Blythe

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A boy from Avonlea school who made the mistake of calling Anne “Carrots”, and spent five years being ignored for it. Later her husband, a country doctor at Four Winds and then Glen St. Mary, and the father of her children.

Jem Blythe

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Joyce Blythe

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Leslie Moore

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Marilla Cuthbert

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Matthew’s sister, who ran Green Gables and brought Anne up — strictly, fairly, and with more love than she ever found comfortable to show. Later she took in the Keith twins, and lived to see Anne’s children.

Matthew Cuthbert

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Marilla’s brother, a farmer at Green Gables, shy of almost everyone except Anne. It was his idea to keep her. He died in 1882, the summer she came home from Queen’s.

Mrs. Hammond

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Mrs. Thomas

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Nan Blythe

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Philippa Gordon

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Rachel Lynde

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Rilla Blythe

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Ruby Gillis

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Shirley Blythe

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Susan Baker

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Housekeeper at Ingleside for as long as the children could remember, and the one who really ran it. Called Anne “Mrs. Dr. dear” to the end.

Walter Blythe

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anne’s second son, and the poet of the family. Afraid of the war and honest about it, he enlisted in 1915 and was killed at Courcelette in September 1916.

Walter Shirley

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