Table of Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
PROLOGUE - The Mystery of Anne of Green Gables
PART 1 - The Perfect Storm Fall 1903–Spring 1905
ONE - Old Memories and New Ambitions
Childhood Memories
Putting Together the Fragments: The Birth of the Writer
Climbing Literary Heights: The Years Before Anne
The “Original” Anne
TWO - The Model for Anne’s Face
Evelyn Nesbit
Glossy Girl
A Picture of Youth
THREE - Building Castles in Spain
Storms and Stresses
Monty’s Airy Castle
The Summoning of Kindred Spirits
The Passing of Time
The Architecture of Blue Castles: Ephraim Weber
First Glimpses of Anne
FOUR - The Orphan Girl and the Snow Queen
Frozen in the Past: Clara
Birth and Death Entwined
Inside the Ice Palace
A Prequel and a Timely Invitation
An Orphan Girl from Nova Scotia and a Fateful Mistake
The Flash of Anne
PART 2 - Writing Anne Spring 1905—Winter 1907
FIVE - Romantic Orchards, Kindred Spirits, and a Spring Flirtation
Romantic Gardens and Orchards
Enter Diana
Anne Is Adopted
Romantic Affinities
SIX - Maud’s Bosom Friends
Sapphic Values
Romantic Codes and Rituals: Mollie and Pollie
Darling Penzie
Secrets
SEVEN - Pagan Love and Sacred Promises: Anne and Diana
The Playhouse in Idlewild
Pagan Diana
A Part of One Another
A Boston Marriage
EIGHT - Good Enemies and Old Love Letters
The Simpsons
Taking the Stage
Anne Confronts Gilbert Blythe
Love Letters from the Past: Nate Lockhart
The Embers of Love and Hate: Ed Simpson
NINE - Wicked Satire in Small-Town Avonlea
Anne Confronts Mrs. Lynde
Giving Them Bars
Cultural Stereotypes
Satirizing Sunday School Morals
A Young Unmarried Minister “On Trial”
TEN - This Old Place Has a Soul, Green Gables
The Old Homestead
Avalon
Winter
Family Quarrels
Nostalgia
The Webb Farm
Seven Gables and Gray Gables
Lover’s Lane
The Myth of Home
Canadian Icons and Landmarks
A Shrinking World
ELEVEN - Red Hair, Puffed Sleeves, and the Rituals of Growing Up
The Art of Beauty
Fiery Red
Being Elaine
Puffed Sleeves
Coming of Age
Maidenhood
TWELVE - Farewells and Decisions
A Baptism of Pain
Haunt of Ancient Peace
A Girl’s Gift Book
Anne Goes Traveling
Maud Decides
New Courage
Re-Enter Frede
THIRTEEN - The Mystery of Anne Revealed
To Anne
Charity Ann
Lucy Ann
Anne’s Prototype
PART 3 - Anne Takes Off Spring 1907—Fall 1938
FOURTEEN - The Most Popular Summer Girl
How Anne Finds a Home in Boston
The Anne Sequel
Sensitive and Imaginative Girlhood
My First Book
At Home in the Modern World
FIFTEEN - The Vows Kept for Life
New Sequels and Secrets
The Making of a Celebrity Author
A Funeral and a Wedding
The House of Dreams
Keeping Vows
EPILOGUE - Dramatis Personae
Abbreviations
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright Page