Anne Novels

Montgomery wrote several Anne novels after the amazing success of Anne of Green Gables. Anne works as a teacher for a couple of years, then Marilla's neighbour Mrs Rachel Lynde is widowed and she has to leave her home so Marilla invites her to live at Green Gables. Now that Marilla has someone to keep her company and help around the house, Anne decides that she can go to college. She goes with Gilbert Blythe, the son of a neighbour, who has always had a crush on her but Anne disliked him whne they were at school because he teased her. Gilbert wants to become a doctor and Anne does an Arts degree. She shares a house with some other college girls, and enjoys her studies. She is fond of Gilbert but when he asks her to consider marrying him she tells him no. She then meets a rich young man, Roy Gardner, who starts to pay court to her. However when they have been going out for 2 years, he akss her to marry him and she suddenly realises that she is not in love with him. He is a nice man but pompous and dull. She goes home to Green Gables at the end of her college career, and gets a job offer as headmistress of a good school. But she has come to realise that she loves GIlbert. He gets ill and almost dies, and the 2 of them are reunited and get engaged. Anne spends 3 years in the school, where she makes freinds, teaches children and writes letters to GIlbert who is doing his medical training. When he qualifies, Anne comes home to Avonlea to get married. Marilla and Mrs Lynde still live together and have adopted twin children who were left orphans and are related to her. Davy, the boy twin wants to become a farmer. Annes best friend, Diana Barry has married a young farmer a couple of years before and has 2 children. Her other friends from college are nearly all married. Anne and Gilbert marry and move to another part of the Island where Gilbert plans to take over his uncle's practice. The next novels are about Anne's marriage and her children, and her daughter Rilla's experiences in World War One.