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Originally Posted by Victoria
I see her this way too Bookworm_Girl. The proof is in the pudding, since the Anne has been a very important role model and inspired generations of children; at least girls. I’m not sure about boys?
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I’m going to have more to say about this, but I think a lot of Anne’s appeal is that she was more like a standard “bad boy” in juvenile literature of the time. How fun and reassuring for a girl to read about a girl who violates the social norms, has opinions and speaks her mind!
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That’s just wrong issybird! Sorry, I couldn’t resist that  That’s not heretical to me. One side of my family came to the bottom tip of Nova Scotia from New England six generations ago, and the other side from Staten Island, NY, five generations ago. My siblings and I are the first to venture 300 km north into the province. That’s as much of Canada as we’ve ever penetrated. Most traffic was back and forth to “the States”, via the ferry. Many returned permanently; most went for work at one time or another. Even my grandparents’ produce was shipped to the States for sale. That was the norm when I grew up; Boston was the main city, not Halifax. Many people had little connection to the rest of the province, and nothing with the rest of Canada.
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Thanks for the personal evidence! It enhances the hints of this in the story. I can’t resist adding that the original publisher of
Anne of Green Gables was in Boston, and not Toronto. Much easier to get to!