Anne Shirley is a fictional character from the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the idea of Anne's background came from relatives who, planning to adopt a orphaned boy, received a girl instead.Boy:Albert Newbarry Girl:Anne Shirley! In the novel, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan who is sent to live with an elderly man named Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla at a house called Green Gables. Anne was orphaned as a 5 year old girl when her parents, Walter and Bertha Shirley sent her to live with a mother of 3 sets of twins. Because her parents couldn't care for her, Anne went to live with the Thomas family. When Anne was eight, Mr. Thomas died and she went to live with Mrs. Hammond. Three years later, Mr. Hammond dies and Anne is sent to the orphanage at Hopetown, from where the Cuthberts adopt her. The setting is the fictional farming village of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the 1870s. Anne, red-haired and freckled, has an overactive imagination and an impressive vocabulary as well as a temper, all of which influence her adventures. She does well in school, making a best friend in "bosom friend" Diana Barry. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... Anne of Green Gables boxed set cover. ... Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ... Setting in literature is the locale and time that serves as the backdrop to short stories, novels, dramas and screenplays. ... Avonlea is a fictional community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomerys novel Anne of Green Gables, its sequels, and the television series Road to Avonlea. ... Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti The Small Protected By The Great) Official languages English Flower Pink Ladys Slipper Tree Red Oak Bird Blue Jay Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Lieutenant-Governor Barbara Oliver Hagerman Premier Pat Binns (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 4 4 Area Total  - Land  - Water...

Matthew dies in Anne of Green Gables. Therefore, to support Marilla after his death, and keep Marilla from becoming blind, Anne becomes a schoolteacher in Avonlea. She resumes her teaching career in Summerside, Prince Edward Island after graduating from Redmond College with a B.A. She works as a principal for three years while her fiance, Gilbert Blythe, finishes medical school. Rilla of Ingleside, which takes place against a backdrop of World War I, is mostly about their youngest daughter. Anne of Green Gables boxed set cover. ... Spoiler warning: Gilbert Blythe is the acquaintance and eventual husband of Anne Shirley in Lucy Maud Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables series of novels. ... Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight novels she wrote. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz...

Montgomery modelled the character's appearance after a photograph of actress Evelyn Nesbit she had cut out of a magazine. Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 – January 17, 1967) was an artists model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry K. Thaw. ...

The character features in the following books:

• Anne of Green Gables (1908)
• Anne of Avonlea (1909)
• Anne of the Island (1915)
• Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
• Rainbow Valley (1919)
• Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
• Anne of Windy Poplars (1936; U.K. title: Anne of Windy Willows)
• Anne of Ingleside (1939)

Anne of Green Gables boxed set cover. ... Anne of Avonlea is a book by Lucy Maud Montgomery , written in 1909. ... Anne of the Island is a book about Anne Shirley. ... Annes House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. ... Rainbow Valley book cover Rainbow Valley is a book about Anne Shirleys children. ... Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight novels she wrote. ... Anne of Windy Poplars, also published as Anne of Windy Willows, is an epistolary novel by L. M. Montgomery. ... Anne of Ingleside cover Anne of Ingleside a childrens book about Anne Shirley by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, was first published in 1939. ...

Reference

• Brian Busby, Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit, Knopf, 2003, p. 235-237.