The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University, and the author of Kurlek, Margaret Laurence: The
Long Journey Home, and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

This scholarly edition of a novel first published in 1908 includes a
lengthy introduction, hundreds of notes, a six-page chronology of L.M.
Montgomery’s life, appendices, and a substantial bibliography, The
editors point out connections between Anne and her creator; and provide
essays on such topics as methods of food preparation, the geography and
settlement of Prince Edward Island, and orphanages and the educational
system in Montgomery’s day. There are selections from contemporary
reviews of the novel. (A reviewer for the New York Times pronounced Anne
“one of the most extraordinary girls that ever came out of an
inkspot.”) The text is richly illustrated with black-and-white
photographs of Prince Edward Island and with sketches of such
contemporary curiosities as the quilting frame and the pompadour
hairstyle.

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is an extraordinary sociocultural
portrait of Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century.