Catherine Anne Warfield at the age of sixteen, Catherine married Robert Elisha Warfield, a son of the prominent Lexington, Kentucky physician and Thoroughbred breeder, Elisha Warfield. The couple settled in his Kentucky home, where they had six children together. After their mother's death, the sisters next suffered the death in 1844 of their half-sister Mary Jane Ellis LaRoche (who appeared to have suffered from post-partum depression and lingering mental illness for several years) and later their half-brother Thomas Ellis. After Eleanor died of yellow fever in 1849, Warfield ceased writing for several years, as she was stricken with depression. In the 1830s, Catherine
Anne of the Island the story of Anne Shirley in a series of sequels. They are listed in the order of Anne's age in each novel. The musical "Anne & Gilbert" drew from this book in the second act - Anne and Gilbert also draws from "Anne of Avonlea". The television mini-series "Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel" (1987) starring Megan Follows was largely inspired by this book, along with "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Windy Poplars". Anne of the Island "Anne of the Island" is the third book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about