Anne of Avonlea Green Gables" as she was in the previous book, but now takes her place among the "important" people (and the "grown up" people) of Avonlea society, as its only schoolteacher. She is also a founding member of the A.V.I.S. (the Avonlea Village Improvement Society), which tries to improve (with questionable results) the Avonlea landscape. Montgomery had brought up with a traditional Scots Presbyterian education. John Knox's famous dictum "A school in every village, a college in every town" had been embraced by the Presbyterian church, and Montgomery was brought up in a culture that greatly valued education. At the same
Before Green Gables astonishing character that Lucy Maud Montgomery created… But I would not – in fact, could not – presume to tell my part of Anne's history in Montgomery's voice. I will do this in my own voice, hoping that she would approve of the project if she were alive today." This book describes Anne's difficult pre-Green-Gables childhood, including the deaths of her parents. (Bertha -Mother-) Three editions are available from different publishers: "Before Green Gables" was translated into Japanese as a title of "Kon'nichiwa Anne" (meaning "Hello, Anne") and sold by Shinchosha and Polish as "Droga do Zielonego Wzgórza" (meaning "Road/Way