Anne McGuire Anne McGuire Dame Anne Catherine McGuire (born 26 May 1949) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling from 1997 to 2015, and served as a minister under successive Labour governments. Born in Glasgow as Anne Catherine Long, she was educated at the city's Our Lady and St Francis Secondary School (became part of St Mungo's Academy in 1988) on Charlotte Street and the University of Glasgow where she was awarded an MA in politics with history. She went on to study for teacher training at the Notre Dame College of Education (merged
Anne Shirley her an equal with Gilbert. While working as a principal, Anne has to deal with a difficult fellow teacher Katherine Brooke who goes out of her way to be rude to her. Brooke openly envies Anne's ability to have a "jolie vie", and tries to drag her down at every chance. A mature Anne has now risen above her youthful "scrapes" and is motivated by a desire to help others, realizing that Brooke's nastiness is due to her own low self-esteem, and helps find a job that better suits her than teaching. Anne and Gilbert finally marry at Green Gables,