Anne Shirley Dollhouse

Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley is a fictional character introduced in the 1908 novel Anne of
Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the
idea for Anne's story came from relatives who, planning to adopt an orphaned
boy received a girl instead. Anne Shirley's appearance was inspired by a photograph
which Montgomery clipped from the Metropolitan Magazine and kept, unaware of the
model's identity as the notorious 1900's Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit.
Anne was born in Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia and spent the earliest years of her
childhood there. She was orphaned as an infant of three months, when her parents,
schoolteachers Walter and Bertha Shirley, died of tphoid fever. She was then juggled
from house to house looking after peoples kids and working extremely hard. Then, after
much daydreaming of better days to come and much suffering she is sent by mistake to
Prince Edward Island, which she regards as her true home ever after. Matthew and Marilla
Cuthbert nearly send her back as they originally sent for a boy to help them out on the
farm as Matthew was getting on in age. They become charmed by Anne's good-hearted
spirit, charming enthusiasm and lively imagination and end up wanting her to stay at
Green Gables permanately. Anne has many adventures over the years and it is a very
wonderful, heartwarming story.
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