Anne Shirley : Anne of Green Gables

Yuky
2019년 1월 1일
2분 분량

Project Description

This project will design a character from a written reference. The character mostly will be illustrated as described by the reference. If the references did not have details of the character, it would be an image which match to background information.

Research

Book

Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montagomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

Background

In writing the novel, Montgomery was inspired by notes she had made as a young girl about a couple who were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of the boy they had requested yet decided to keep her. She drew upon her own childhood experiences in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada. Montgomery used a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit, which she had clipped from New York’s Metropolitan Magazine and put on the wall of her bedroom, as the model for the face of Anne Shirley and a reminder of her "youthful idealism and spirituality."

(Right) The portrait of Evelyn Nesbit by Rudolf Eickemever Jr. inspired Montgomery.

Character

Anne Shirley: An imaginative, talkative, red-headed orphan who comes to live with Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert. Anne is very sensitive and dislikes the color of her hair. She exhibits categorical interest in everything romantic.