#Anne’s house of dreams

[petaltexturedskies]

That September was a month of golden mists and purple hazes—a month of sun-steeped days and of nights that were swimming in moonlight, or pulsating with stars.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

[shirleyjblythe]

L.M. Montgomery from ‘Anne’s House of Dreams’

It’s September so happy 134th anniversary to the only literary couple that matters.

[wordsaficionado]

I think it’s time we should all admit that Anne of Green Gables is one of the most well written pieces of literature ever created, and frankly one of the best.

[gogandmagog]

Anne’s Husband House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery feat: ‘Landscape With Fox And Crows’ by Bruno Liljefors

[cottagebff]

“That September was a month of golden mists and purple hazes.”

-Anne’s House of Dreams, L.M Montgomery

[sunfloweraroace]

[mollywog]

"He's Gilbert Blythe," said Marilla contentedly. Marilla would have died the death before she would have put into words the thought that was always in the background of her mind whenever she had looked at Gilbert from his childhood up—the thought that, had it not been for her own wilful pride long, long ago, he might have been HER son. Marilla felt that, in some strange way, his marriage with Anne would put right that old mistake. Good had come out of the evil of the ancient bitterness.

Montgomery just slips this anecdote in real quick and leaves it there to haunt me

[e-louise-bates]

Anne remembered that Miss Cornelia had given her a very different impression of Leslie’s mother. But had not love the truer vision?

NO, Anne, for heaven’s sake, no. Even taking into account Miss Cornelia’s bias, there is no way Rose West comes out of this story as anything but the villain of the piece. Even in other versions of this story as told in short stories (i.e, Only a Common Fellow, Four Winds), it’s never a mother who sells her daughter into sexual slavery so she can stay in her house. There’s no way to paint that as anything less than horrific.

Still, it *was* selfish of Rose West to make her daughter marry Dick Moore.

I’m glad you can at least admit that much, Anne! I do love your desire to think the best of people (as shown even in your younger years in your attempt to defend the women who raised you prior to Green Gables as meaning to be kind), but there are limits.

It’s amazing to me how I could read Anne’s House of Dreams as a kid and recognize the inherent tragedy of Leslie’s story without in the least understanding its implications, and then read it as an adult and realize that Rose West made her daughter marry an abusive r@pist so that she wouldn’t have to get kicked out of her house—granted Leslie claims that Rose never knew how bad Dick was, it’s still appalling.

(As a kid it was the bit about Kenneth that hit me the hardest, especially Leslie having seen his face as he was killed and never being able to forget it. I wonder if naming her own son Kenneth was an attempt to replace the old horror of that with new memories?)

[ariadnethedragon]

— Anne of Windy Poplars, Lucy Maud Montgomery

[everythinglucymaudmontgomery]

Even when I’m alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendship — and nice, jolly little times with people.

ANNE’S HOUSE OF DREAMS

🎨 Johan Krouthén

[fruitloopsforlife]

🌶️ Vaguely NSFW🌶️ Spicy Lucy Maud Montgomery Poll

[petaltexturedskies]

I couldn't live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

[roses-red-and-pink]

For all Anne of green gables fans: what “age” genre do you classify the books as? (Like childrens lit, YA lit, adult lit).

When I go to the library, I always find the books in the childrens section. It makes sense for the first book and maybe Anne of avonlea, but the rest I wouldn’t really classify as childrens lit per say… the only other one I can see being for children is Rainbow Valley.

I think they’re appropriate for children with a high enough reading level, but the later books aren’t really written for children in particular (imo).

Thoughts?

[amourauxfraise]

[gogandmagog]

– Gilbert Blythe, Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

[cottagebff]