![]() ![]() Because … where is Anne? What’s going on with HER? But as an adult, it seems right. I admit that when I was a teenager, reading the books for the first time, I got kind of frustrated. ![]() We see Anne and Gilbert, characters we now love and feel we know, through their kids eyes – as parents. So we’re inside Jem’s head, or Walter’s head, or whatever. Each child has his or her own big episode in the book – and the narrative is told from that child’s point of view. There’s a moment when Anne sees a shadow of a cross over her son Walter’s bed – and “later she would look back on that ….” etc.Īnne of Ingleside is the story of Anne and Gilbert raising their brood of children. There are a couple of foreshadowing moments in this book – because, after all, she has already written Rilla of Ingleside (excerpt here) – so she knows what happens. ![]() Anne of Ingleside was published in 1939 – which always amazes me. Sixth in the Anne series – but I think this was one of the last books she wrote. Next book on the shelf is Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. ![]()
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