Perhaps Thummler’s gawky portrayal will take some getting used to, especially a cartoon nose that constantly draws the attention, sometimes looking as if it’s been glued on, but she supplies relateable visual drama and gorgeous scenery. However, Mariah Marsden and Brenna Thummler further bring through that Anne is also immensely likeable and good-hearted. Any dictionary definition of precocious could direct to Anne. Anne is smart, and even more creative, able to weave thought-provoking fantasies, and possesses a pragmatism beyond her years. Montgomery channelled her own rural childhood into Anne’s story of an orphaned twelve year old girl’s adoption by a brother and sister living on a remote farm.
Published in 1908, the first cinema adaptation was in 1919 and numerous radio, television, animation and film and stage versions have followed. Montgomery was Canada’s most successful novelist, yet despite a prodigious output it’s only her first novel Anne of Green Gables that remains in the public eye.
Over the first half of the 20 th century Lucy Maud Montgomery, who published as L.M.
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