Anne of Avonlea Anne of Avonlea Anne of Avonlea is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909. Following "Anne of Green Gables" (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from "Anne of Green Gables", as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. The book's title is fitting, as Anne is no longer simply "of
Anne Shirley 1919 nor 1934 versions of "Anne of Green Gables" quite got her book right. Writing about the 1934 version of "Anne of Green Gables", Montgomery wrote in her diary that it was a "thousand times" better than the 1919 version, but still it: "was so entirely different from "my" vision of the scenes and the people that it did not seem like "my" book at all". The British scholar Faye Hammill wrote that 1934 film version stripped Anne of the "Canadian and feminist" aspects that the Anne of the books possessed, stating that there was something about Anne that Hollywood