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Anne Shirley: character portrait from Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud))

A character in Anne of Green Gables

Anne Shirley

Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

A highly imaginative, talkative, and red-headed orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to live with siblings on a farm.

Also known as: Anne of Green Gables, the little red‑haired girl, the dreamer, the imaginative one, the little orphan

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Meet Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley is a highly imaginative, talkative, red-haired orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Green Gables, a farm on Prince Edward Island. She arrives expecting to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had intended to take in a boy to help with the farm.

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