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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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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 Blythe: Rilla's beloved older brother, a sensitive and poetic soul, goes off to war
- Kenneth Ford: Rilla's love - an educated young man from Toronto
- "Jims" - James Kitchener Anderson: orphaned war-baby Rilla rescues and brings up
- Gertrude Oliver: Rilla's teacher
- Irene Howard: Rilla's former friend
- Miranda Pryor: Rilla's friend, daughter of crabby "Whiskers-on-the-moon" Pryor
- Mrs. Mary Douglas Meredith: 2nd wife of minister John Meredith, mother of Bruce
- Mary Vance: Rilla's friend
- Mr. Pryor, aka "Whiskers-on-the-moon": Elder of the church, father of Miranda, pacifist and pro-German
- Shirley: Rilla's older brother, the third Blythe son
- Cousin Sophia: Susan's cousin, pessimist
- James Blythe, aka Jem: Rilla's oldest brother, and a medical student, goes off to war. Gilbert and Anne Blythe's oldest child
- Fred Arnold: Son of the Methodist minister
- Jerry Meredith: Son of the minister, friend of Rilla
- Joe Milgrave: Miranda' Pryor's sweetheart
- Nan Blythe: Rilla's older sister, Di's twin
- Carl Meredith: Jerry's younger brother, likes bugs
- Mrs. Matilda Pitman: Feisty old lady
- Miller Douglas: Mary Vance's sweetheart
- Mr. Hyde: Rilla's cat
- Bruce Meredith: Son of the minister, John Meredith, his 2nd wife, Mary, younger half-brother of Jerry and Carl, Una and
- Anne Blythe: Rilla's mother, Anne of Green Gables
- Norman Douglas: Feisty neighbor, brother of minister's wife Mary Douglas Meredith
- Wilfrid: Miranda's dog
- Mrs. Conover: Add a description of this character.
- Gilbert Blythe: Rilla's father, husband of Anne of Green Gables
- Jim Anderson: Father of Jims
Quotes edit
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“When I am 'somewhere in France,' : said Walter looking around him with eager eyes on all the beauty his soul loved, "I shall remember these, still dewy, moon-drenched places. The Balsam of the fir-trees--the peace of those white pools of moonshine--the 'strength of the hills'--what a beautiful old Biblical phrase that is. Rilla! Look at those old hills around us--the hills we looked up at as children, wondering what lay for us in the great world beyond them. How calm and strong they are--how patient and changeless--like the heart of a good woman.”
Walter Blythe
Setting & Locations edit
Glen St. Mary, PEI, Canada
- Ingleside: The Blyth home where Rilla was born and is growing to womanhood
- Rainbow Valley: Play-area of the Ingleside and manse children
- Germany: Enemy country
- Paris: Capital of France
- Charlottetown: Largest town on Prince Edward Island - a moderate train ride from Glen St. Mary
- England: Mother country
- France: Beleaguered country
- Lowbridge: nearby village, home of Miss Oliver
- Redmond: College in Charlottetown
- Verdun: French battlefields
- Kingsport: College town
- Harbour Head: port near Glen St. Mary, PEI,
- Venice: City of canals in Italy
- Flanders: WW II War zone in Belgium
- Serbia: European country
- Warsaw: Capital of Poland
- Rumania: Eastern European country
- Belgium: European country
- Avonlea: Where Anne grew up
- Italy: European country
Organizations edit
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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