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Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one can resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome... read more
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Summary edit
Young and pretty, 15 year old Rilla Blythe is the baby of the Blythe family.
As the news of war strikes the household of Ingleside, the family struggles to cope.
Rilla, determined to help her family, swallows her pride to become a mature woman, understanding of love, loss and jealousy.
Characters edit
- Rilla Blythe: Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, who becomes a woman during the course of the book.
- Susan: Cook and beloved servant of the Blythe family
- Walter: Rilla's older brother, goes off to war
- Kenneth Ford: Rilla's love
- Jims: Rilla's war-baby
- Gertrude Oliver: Rilla's teacher
- Irene Howard: Rilla's former friend
- Miranda: Rilla's friend
- Mrs. Meredith: Wife of the minister, mother of Bruce
- Mary Vance: Rilla's friend
- Mr. Pryor: Elder of the church, father of Miranda, pacifist
- Shirley: Rilla's older brother
- Cousin Sophia: Susan's cousin, pessimist
- Jem: Rilla's older brother, goes off to war
- Fred Arnold: Son of the Methodist minister
- Jerry: Son of the minister, friend of Rilla
- Joe Milgrave: Miranda's sweetheart
- Nan: Rilla's sister, Di's twin
- Carl: Jerry's younger brother, likes bugs
- Mrs. Matilda Pitman: Feisty old lady
- Miller Douglas: Mary Vance's sweetheart
- Mr. Hyde: Rilla's cat
- Bruce: Son of the minister, younger half-brother of Jerry and Carl
- Anne Blythe: Rilla's mother, Anne of Green Gables
- Norman Douglas: Feisty neighbor
- Wilfrid: Miranda's dog
- Mrs. Conover: Add a description of this character.
- Gilbert Blythe: Rilla's father
- Jim Anderson: Father of Jims
Setting & Locations edit
Glen St. Mary, PEI, Canada
- Ingleside: Rilla's house
- Rainbow Valley: Play-area of the Ingleside and manse children
- Germany: Enemy country
- Paris: Capital of France
- Charlottetown: Nearby large town
- England: Mother country
- France: Beleaguered country
- Lowbridge
- Redmond: College
- Verdun
- Kingsport
- Harbour Head
- Venice
- Flanders
- Serbia
- Warsaw
- Rumania
- Belgium
- Avonlea: Where Anne grew up
- Italy
First Sentence edit
It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon.
Table of Contents edit
1. Glen "Notes" and Other Matters
2. Dew of Morning
3. Moonlit Mirth
4. The Piper Pipes
5. "The Sound of a Going"
6. Susan, Rilla, and Dog Monday Make a Resolution
7. A War-Baby and a Soup Tureen
8. Rilla Decides
9. Doc Has a Misadventure
10. The Troubles of Rilla
11. Dark and Bright
12. In the Days of Langemarck
13. A Slice of Humble Pie
14. The Valley of Decision
15. Until the Day Break
16. Realism and Romance
17. The Weeks Wear By
18. A War-Wedding
19. "They Shall Not Pass"
20. Norman Douglas Speaks Out in Meeting
21. "Love Affairs Are Horrible"
22. Little Dog Monday Knows
23. "And So, Goodnight"
24. Mary Is Just in Time
25. Shirley Goes
26. Susan Has a Proposal of Marriage
27. Waiting
28. Black Sunday
29. "Wounded and Missing"
30. The Turning of the Tide
31. Mrs. Matilda Pitman
32. Word from Jem
33. Victory!
34. Mr. Hyde Goes to His Own Place and Susan Takes a Honeymoon
35. "Rilla-My-Rilla!"
Series & Lists edit
This is book 8 of 8 in Anne of Green Gables. (standard series)
Preceded by Rainbow Valley.
Authors & Contributors edit
- L. M. Montgomery (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: A. L. Burt
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1921
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 370
Publisher: A. L. Burt
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1921
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 370
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- Dewey: 813.52
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