This edition of the classic novel about the Prince Edward Island orphan contains critical material on the work itself and its author, as well as essays, poems, and songs.
Appendices: The geography of Anne of Green Gables / Wendy E. Barry The settlers of P.E.I.: the Celtic influence in Anne / Wendy E. Barry The exceptional orphan Anne: child care, orphan asylums, farming out, indenturing, and adoption / Mary E. Doody Jones Education on P.E.I. / Mary E. Doody Jones Gardens and plants / Margaret Anne Doody Homemade artifacts and home life / Margaret Anne Doody Food preparation, cookery, and home decoration / Margaret Anne Doody Breaking the silence: music and elocution / Mary E. Doody Jones Literary allusion and quotation in Anne of Green Gables / Margaret Anne Doody and Wendy E. Barry Songs: [Nelly of] The hazel dell Far above the [gentle] daisies My home on the hill Literary works and recitation pieces: The Battle of Hohenlinden Edinburgh after Flodden Bingen on the Rhine On the downfall of Poland The dog at his master's grave Curfew must not ring tonight How sockery set a hen Mary, Queen of Scots The Society for the Suppression of Gossip The fairy queen Mars La Tour, or The maiden's vow