Young Anne Shirley is an orphan from the fictional Nova Scotian town of Bolingbroke (based upon the real community of New London, Prince Edward Island). After spending her early years in orphanages and the homes of strangers, she is assigned to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, two unmarried siblings in their fifties and sixties. She also insists that her name should always be spelled with an e. She dislikes her red hair, freckles, and pale, slender frame but likes her nose and is defensive about her looks. She likes to chat, particularly when explaining her desires and dreams.
The story follows Anne as she adjusts to Green Gables, the first real home she has ever known. It details her experiences at the country school where she excels academically, her friendship with Diana Barry, the girl who lives next door, her developing literary ambitions, and her rivalry with Gilbert Blythe, a classmate who teases her about having red hair.
To Anne's dismay, Gilbert, Ruby, Josie, Jane, and many other students—but not Diana—go to Queen's Academy at age sixteen to get a teaching license. Anne forfeits the scholarship out of love for Marilla and Green Gables so that she can aid Marilla, whose eyesight is deteriorating, at home.
Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, born on 30 November 1874 in Clifton, Prince Edward Island. Her parents were Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneil Montgomery. She was brought up by her grandparents because her mother died early, due to tuberculosis. She led a lonely life in childhood, created imaginary friends and developed her creativity. She got education in Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University. After completing the college she worked as a journalist and then became a teacher. Since, early childhood she was a creative writer, she wrote her first poem at the nine years of age. But her first poem was published at the age of 15 years. In 1908, she wrote most popular work Anne of Green Gables. After that she continued her writing and wrote more than 20 novels, 500 short stories and more than 500 poems and lot of essays on different topics. Prince Edward Island was most favourite place, she set her most of the stories around it. She was died in 1942. Her memorable works - Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne's House of Dreams, The Blue Castle, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Rainbow Valley, Ultimate Collection, The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Times etc.
