![]() ![]() Though Rilla’s coming-of-age in a climate of fear and adversity is nothing like her mother’s childhood adventures in the Canadian countryside, this is an Anne book to the core. ![]() It is told through the eyes of Rilla Blythe, the youngest child of the series’ titular heroine, Anne Shirley. Published in 1921, Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth book of the Anne of Green Gables series by L. Within days, Rilla’s brothers and childhood friends are off to war, leaving the women of their families behind to endure four long years of global upheaval and personal tragedy. Inside, 15-year-old Rilla Blythe eagerly awaits the next day, when she will attend her first party-a party doomed to be interrupted by the news of England’s declaration of war against Germany. ![]() So speaks Miss Cornelia in the first chapter of Rilla of Ingleside, as she trades gossip on one of many front porches on the idyllic coastline of Prince Edward Island, Canada (a British dominion at the time). “‘Who is this Archduke man who has been murdered?’ ![]()
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