The "Anne" They Adopted

A series I somehow never found my way to - maybe also to have on my "someday" list. I've many a dear friend who've nearly middle named their daughters after Anne they adored her & these books that much.

Similar to this post I wrote from during "Wheels Week", I felt it only appropriate that, here, in the midst of these many novels & series which I've encountered in my yesteryear, to also include a series which I've known of (since my college days), though never managed to include in my stack o' books at my bedside. (😂 The reality of which, if ever this stack actually did exist, it never shook, except that it might've been in the way & then it'd tumbled in a domino-like way with my facing scrunching up in a highly dissatisfied fashion.)

Also as I've turned enough times recently to Wikipedia, I figured I might as well learn about a series of stories for which I'd never turned a page through the words of a Wikipedia author:

A brother & sister had meant to adopt a boy to help work on their farm. Instead they got Anne. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote this book in 1908. Montgomery wrote the book for all ages (this gives me hope in what would be my first time reading it decades beyond my childhood 😂), though it's become a book for younger ages. And from what I can tell it's not been an intentional series, with Montgomery writing a number of sequels before her death & another sequel as well as an "authorized prequel" being written since that time. Montgomery used a portrait she had of Evelyn Nesbit as the face of Anne in her mind as she wrote in addition to other "Ann stories" of the time - where Montgomery added the "e" onto her Anne's name for differentiation purposes.

Anyway, I'm paraphrasing what's become a quick "lesson" on Anne from right here. And since I did go ahead & reread this book a week ago, I can easily see myself adding any & all of these onto my definitely-intend-to-read-as-soon-as-I-finish-the-one-or-two-I've-got-right-here-first list of books.



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