The compromises she reaches tend to be uneasy at best. Thus, the series instead charts Anne's ongoing struggle between romantic idealism and practical reality. What follows would probably be hundreds of pages' worth of nauseating, and largely forgotten, sentimentality - except that Montgomery had what so many children's authors of the time lacked: a sense of humour. Oh, and would they mind calling her "Cordelia"? Instead, they found themselves confronting a very redheaded little girl, who's already busily fantasizing about instead having "raven black hair rippling back from an alabaster brow" and being dressed in blue satin with puffed sleeves. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had made the entirely sensible and practical decision to request a boy from the local orphanage to help the aging Matthew around their farm, Green Gables. A Canadian series of novels written by Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery, in the early years of the 20th century, revolving around Anne (make sure you spell that with an "e"!) Shirley, an impulsive, starry-eyed, and lonely orphan girl who is accidentally sent to live with a bachelor brother and sister in the tiny village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island.
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