Anne Shirley is a character first introduced to the world in the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery. When we first meet Anne, she is an eleven-year-old
girl with a vivid imagination, talkative disposition, and bewitching
personality.
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are surprised by Anne's arrival in Avonlea, Prince
Edward Island. The Cuthbert siblings had planned to adopt a young boy
to help Matthew with the farm at Green Gables, but mistakenly they are
sent a girl. Fortunately, Anne wins both Matthew and Marilla over, and
the Cuthberts adopt Anne giving her a home at Green Gables.
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