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Anne Shirley is a fictional character from the
novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud
Montgomery. 

There is also a Hollywood actress who renamed
herself Anne Shirley (actor)|Anne Shirley after
playing the fictional Anne in a film version.

Montgomery reportedly got the inspiration for the
character of Anne after reading a newspaper
article about a Canada|Canadian couple who planned
to adopt a boy orphan but received a girl instead.

According to the story, Anne is a young orphan who
is sent to live with an elderly bachelor named
Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla.  Anne was
orphaned as an infant when her parents, Walter and
Bertha Shirley, died of typhoid fever. The setting
is the fictional town of Avonlea, Prince Edward
Island, around the turn of the 20th century. Anne,
red-haired and freckled, has an overactive
imagination and an impressive vocabulary as well
as a temper, all of which influence her
adventures. She does well in school, making a best
friend in "bosom companion" Diana Barry. 

As a teenager, Anne becomes a schoolteacher in her
hometown of Avonlea before going to college. She
then works as a principal for three years while
her fiance, Gilbert Blythe, finishes medical
school. After their marriage, Anne and Gilbert
have  seven children: Joy (who dies soon after
birth), James Matthew (Jem), Walter, twins Anne
(Nan) and Diana, Shirley and Bertha Marilla
("Rilla"). Rilla is the central chararacter of the
last book in the series, Rilla of Ingleside, which
takes place against a backdrop of World War I.

The life of Anne is told in the following
bibliography:

*Anne of Green Gables (1908)
*Anne of Avonlea (1909)
*Anne of the Island (1915)
*Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
*Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
*Anne of Ingleside (1939)
*Rainbow Valley (1919)
*Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

==External links==
*http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/anne-table.htm
l Anne of Green Gables HTML version
*http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/avon-table.htm
l Anne of Avonlea Online text
*http://www.geocities.com/ragdollz26 Anne Shirley
Home Page Resource page specifically concerning
Anne Shirley and the series.
*http://www.tickledorange.com/LMM/ An L.M.
Montgomery Resource Page Resource on L.M.
Montgomery and Anne's Legacy
* http://www.anne3.com/ Official page on the
Sullivan Anne trilogy On the world famous Canadian
miniseries with a http://www.anne3.com/AvonleaMB/
message board for fans

==See also==
* Heidi