Subjects on Demonstration notebook — Anne Shirley

Being an orphan

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What it is to belong to nobody in particular, and what it takes, much later, to find out where you came from.

Family

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Friendship

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Grief

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Three deaths in this notebook matter more than the others: the man who had been a father to her, fallen in a doorway; a daughter who lived a day; a son at Courcelette.

Letters

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Teaching

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The war

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1914 to 1919, seen from a village on Prince Edward Island: who went, who came back, and who waited.

Writing

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Stories written, rejected, sold by accident, and finally kept. The narrator of this notebook wrote all her life; so did her son Walter.