Anne of the Island is L.M. Montgomery’s seventh book, first published in 1915 by Boston publisher The Page Company (formerly L.C. Page and Company). It is the fourth of eleven books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Anne Shirley Blythe, preceded by Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), and Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), and followed by Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Rainbow Valley (1919), Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920), Rilla of Ingleside (1921), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne of Ingleside (1939), and The Blythes Are Quoted (2009). It was also preceded by Montgomery’s sixth book, The Golden Road (1913).
The publication of Anne of the Island marked the end of a contract with her first publisher, L.C. Page and Company, that offered Montgomery a much lower royalty rate than what was standard at the time. When attempts to renegotiate the contract went nowhere, Montgomery named the Toronto firm of McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart her primary publishers and literary agents, and soon placed her next book, The Watchman and Other Poems (1916), with them.
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Epigraph
“All precious things discovered late
To those that seek them issue forth
For Love in sequel works with Fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth.”
—Tennyson
Dedication
To
all the girls all over the world
who have “wanted more” about
ANNE
Contents
I. The Shadow of Change
II. Garlands of Autumn
III. Greeting and Farewell
IV. April’s Lady
V. Letters from Home
VI. In the Park
VII. Home Again
VIII. Anne’s First Proposal
IX. An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend
X. Patty’s Place
XI. The Round of Life
XII. “Averil’s Atonement”
XIII. The Way of Transgressors
XIV. The Summons
XV. A Dream Turned Upside Down
XVI. Adjusted Relationships
XVII. A Letter from Davy
XVIII. Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-Girl
XIX. An Interlude
XX. Gilbert Speaks
XXI. Roses of Yesterday
XXII. Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables
XXIII. Paul Cannot Find the Rock People
XXIV. Enter Jonas
XXV. Enter Prince Charming
XXVI. Enter Christine
XXVII. Mutual Confidences
XXVIII. A June Evening
XXIX. Diana’s Wedding
XXX. Mrs. Skinner’s Romance
XXXI. Anne to Philippa
XXXII. Tea with Mrs. Douglas
XXXIII. “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”
XXXIV. John Douglas Speaks at Last
XXXV. The Last Redmond Year Opens
XXXVI. The Gardners’ Call
XXXVII. Full-fledged B.A.’s
XXXVIII. False Dawn
XXXIX. Deals with Weddings
XL. A Book of Revelation
XLI. Love Takes Up the Glass of Time