Montgomery Institute) to show how the “elusive” author, who had written numerous stories and at least one failed novel before she arrived at Anne, “brood up” her characters, one freckled dreamer in particular. Gammel dismantles that legend both exhaustively and lovingly (as befits a former chair of the L. It was red.” The question of whether Anne, the passionate orphan with a temper and a penchant for puffy sleeves, really sprang fully formed from her creator’s head-Athena to Montgomery’s Zeus-is the driving force behind Irene Gammel’s new book, Looking for Anne of Green Gables, published in time for the first novel’s centenary.
When asked why she had decided to give red hair to her famous heroine, Anne Shirley (better known as Anne of Green Gables to legions of little girls the world over), author Maud Montgomery replied, “I didn’t.
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