People

Allan, ...Mr.

Allan, ...Mrs

Allen, Josiah

Andrews, Alice

Andrews, Billy

Andrews, Catherine

Andrews, Eliza

Andrews, Harmon

Andrews, Mrs. Harmon

Andrews, Jane

Andrews, Malcolm

Andrews, Mark

Andrews, Mattie

Andrews, Minnie

Andrews, Morley

Andrews, Prissy

Andrews, Timothy

Places

Avonlea

Avonlea School

Mr. Abbey

The owner of Abbey Bank which failed with the Cuthberts' money in it. He was a great friend to Matthew and Marilla's father and they had always banked with Mr. Abbey. "Matthew said any bank with him at the head of it was good enough for anybody." Anne notes that Mr. Abbey is a very old man, and that his nephews really run the bank.
AoGG:Chapter 36

Mr. Allan

He succeeds Mr. Bentley as minister for Avonlea. Anne "...liked him because his sermon was interesting and he prayed as if he meant it and not just as if he did it because he was in the habit of it." Mrs. Lynde regards his theology as sound, and his wife's people are "most respectable". He and his wife were "still on their honeymoon" when they came to Avonlea. "Old and young liked the frank, cheerful young man with his high ideals,..." It was said that an account of the Christmas Concert would be sent by him to the Charlottetown newspapers. He found the stories of The Story Club to be good be cause of the moral involved in them. He also tells Anne that "everybody should have a purpose in life and pursue it faithfully. Only he says we must first make sure that it is a worthy purpose." Anne regards his sermons as "magnificent".
AoGG:Chapters 21, 25-26, 30-31
AoA:Chapters 1, 6, 8-10

Mrs. Allan

The wife of the minister, Mrs. Lynde regards her people as "most respectable and the women are all good housekeepers." "Old and young liked, ...the bright gentle little lady who assumed the mistress-ship of the manse. Anne found herself another kindred spirit and a good teacher in Mrs. Allan. Anne told Marilla, "Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such exquisite dimples in her cheeks." Mrs. Allan is the first one to experience Anne's cake with anodyne liniment in it when she and Mr. Allan are invited over the Green Gables for the first time. Mrs. Allan admitted to Anne that when she was a girl, she was a "dreadful mischief" and "always getting into scrapes".
AoGG:Chapters 21-23, 26-34, 36-38
AoA:Chapters 1, 3, 6

Josiah Allen

His wife uses an expression that Anne used that [I'll quote from the book] goes like this: "As 'Josiah Allen's wife' says, I shall me 'mejum'." The context which this editor forgot to add earlier refers to Mrs. Lynde's belief that Anne would "kill" herself by both teaching and studying for her Arts course at the same time.
AoGG:Chapter 38

Alice Andrews

When Anne decides to quit school after being punished by being forced to sit with Gilbert Blythe, Diana mentions that Alice will be bringing her new Pansy book the following week so that they can read it aloud, chapter by chapter, down by the brook.
AoGG:Chapter 15

Billy Andrews

Billy is Jane Andrew's brother. He drove Anne and Jane to the White Sands Hotel for a concert to benefit the Charlottetown hospital. He insisted that Anne ride with him to the concert. "There was not much of either laughter or chatter in Billy. He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with a round, expressionless face, and a painful lack of conversational gifts. But he admired Anne immensely, and was puffed up with pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with that slim, upright figure beside him."
AoGG:Chapter 33

Catherine Andrews

One of the "Andrews sisters" (the other being Eliza Andrews). She was of the optimistic sort which totally contradicted Eliza's personality. They were canvassed for funds by Anne and Diana for A.V.I.S.'s project of re-shingling and painting the Avonlea hall. Anne and Diana felt that they would probably get a contribution from Catherine if Eliza was not there. They lived along the Newbridge road.
AoA:Chapter 6

Eliza Andrews

One of the "Andrews sisters" (the other being Catherine Andrews). She was of the pessimistic sort which totally contradicted Catherine's personality. They were canvassed for funds by Anne and Diana for A.V.I.S.'s project of re-shingling and painting the Avonlea hall. It was felt that if Eliza was there, Anne and Diana wouldn't get any money. They lived along the Newbridge road.
AoA:Chapters 6, 8

Harmon Andrews

A Sunday-school picnic was held in Harmon Andrews's field. He also took kids out for a row on the Lake of Shining Waters. Jane Andrews was about ready to fall out of the boat before Mr. Andrews caught her by her sash "just in the nick of time". When Anne was picked up by Gilbert , he was using Harmon's dory. I am assuming Harmon is Prissy's father also, and Anne says that he is a Grit. He took second prize for Gravenstein apples at the Exhibition in Charlottetown. Mrs. Lynde says that Jane's father "is a perfect old crank, and meaner than second skimmings." Anne says that it cost him 150 dollars to put Prissy Andrews through Queen's.
AoGG:Chapters 13-14, 16, 28-30

Mrs. Harmon Andrews

She disapproved of Anne reading fairy tales to Anne's Avonlea school class.
AoA:Chapter 7

Jane Andrews

Jane and Anne share in the same circle of friends that includes Diana and Ruby Gillis. She nearly fell overboard when Harmon Andrews took out people for a row on the Lake of Shining Waters at the Sunday-school picnic. During Anne's first days at the Avonlea school, Jane told her "that Minnie MacPherson told her [Jane] that she [Minnie] heard Prissy Andrews tell Sara Gillis that I [Anne] had a very pretty nose." Jane also declared when Mr. Phillips left that she wouldn't shed a tear, but according to Anne she wept the most. She was part of the Story Club. She was a part of the Queen's class and in preparation for the entrance exam, Anne feels that nothing rattles Jane's nerves. "...plain, plodding, conscientious Jane--carried off the honors in the domestic science course at Queen's." When she finished Queen's she was planning to take t he Newbridge school. She is chairman of the A.V.I.S. committee to re-shingle and paint the Avonlea hall.
AoGG:Chapters 14-15, 18, 21, 23-26, 28-32, 34-37
AoA:Chapters 4, 6, 9

Malcolm Andrews

He proposed to Susan Gillis by telling her that he had been given the farm by his dad and asked Susan, "What do you say, darling pet, if we get hitched this fall?" and she told him "Yes--no--I don't know--let me see". Since Anne was writing a story with a marriage proposal, she was told of the proposal of Malcolm and Susan by Ruby. Anne certainly felt that Malcolm's proposal was not very romantic so she imagined what a proposal must have been like.
AoGG:Chapter 26

Mark Andrews

Catherine Andrews and Eliza Andrews lived in a little brown house "scooped out of Mark Andrews' beech woods."
AoA:Chapter 6

Mattie Andrews

Diana told Anne, while Anne was away from school after the slate-breaking incident with Gilbert Blythe, that Mattie "had a new red hood and a blue crossover with tassels on it and the airs she put on about it w ere perfectly sickening, ..."
AoGG:Chapter 16

Minnie Andrews

Minnie is regarded as model pupil by Mr. Phillips. Anne regards her as "just dull and poky and never seems to have a good time." After Diana's mother forbade Diana and Anne to be friends, Anne sat with Minnie once she returned to school after the slate-breaking incident with Gilbert.< br> AoGG:Chapter 17-18, 21

Morley Andrews

Morley is one of Anne's students at Avonlea who was disciplined the first day of school for "driving a pair of trained crickets in the aisle." He had to stand "on the platform for an hour and...confiscated his crickets." He believed that Anne took and kept them for her own "private amusement".
AoA:Chapter 5

Prissy Andrews

Anne herself gives a good description of Prissy Andrews.

Prissy is grown-up, you know. She's sixteen and she's studying for the entrance examination into Queen's Academy at Charlottetown next year...She's got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair and she does it up so elegantly.

It seems that Mr. Phillips, the schoolmaster at Avonlea, is "dead gone" on Prissy. She is to recite "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" at the Debating Club concert at the Avonlea Hall. She told Anne that she stayed up half the night every night the week before the Queen's Entrance Examination.
AoGG:Chapters 15, 18-21, 30, 32

Timothy Andrews

"'Little" Timothy' swept the school and kindled the fire." He was the lucky inheriter of the strawberry apple that Gilbert Blythe left for Anne when she returned to school after her short "sabbatical".
AoGG:Chapter 17

"Avenue"

The Avenue was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over with huge, wide-spreading apple-trees, planted years ago by an eccentric old farmer. Overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom. Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.

It receives its name from the Newbridge people. Anne refers it to as the White Way of Delight and feels that it is the "first thing that couldn't be improved upon by imagination."
AoGG:Chapter 2

Avonlea

Avonlea is the main scene for the Anne of Green Gables story. It is where Anne lives from the age of 11 after being in an orphange. It is where Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert have lived for many years. "Avonlea occupied a little triangular penisula jutting out in to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with water on two sides of it. . ." The Kindred Spirits WWW site has a map of PEI that shows where Lucy Maud Montgomery envisioned Avonlea.
AoGG:Chapters 1-3, 8-9, 11, 15-19, 21-38

AoA:Chapter 9

Avonlea School

Even though there is no formal name for the Avonlea school, it does bear mentioning.

The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of schoolchildren. The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour.

AoGG:Chapters 15, 17, 31, 32, 35, 38

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