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oh yes I remember that ...I could never get on with Alison Uttley lol, far less demanding were the Green Knowe stories by Lucy Boston, who owned a manor house at Hemmingford Grey and based her stories there

http://www.greenknowe.co.uk/history.html

very deprived!

but I caught up later ....................


I read the Ann books with my daughter ...... and we avidly watched the two tv series with Megan Follows

never took to the following series with Sarah Polley

A deprived childhood, Sylvia. ;;)

I read the Narnia books every summer from when I could read them until I was, oh, 15. ;)

Also the Edward Eager series of magic books -- Half Magic and the rest. A lot of people don't know them, but theyr'e terrific, and have the greatest line drawings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Eager

They were written in the 50s, and so actually almost new when I was reading them, but they have a really 1920s feel about them.

And the "X" of Adventure books, of course. ;)


RR especially -- A Traveller in Time? Alison Uttley. Just the most melancholy thing. I tried to read it again a couple of years ago, and could barely get through the first paragraph. Children's prose in 1939 was a lot more demanding than it is now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Uttley

A Traveller in Time (1939). Based on the Babington Plot of Anthony Babington at Dethick, near her family home, this romance mixes dream and historical fact in a story about a twentieth-century girl who is transported to the 16th century, becoming involved in a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots from nearby Wingfield Manor.

I'd never heard of Ann of Green Gables, OR Lucy Maud Montgomery, until we came over here


and I was a fanatical reader ............. I had read everything that I might possibly be interested in in the Children's section of the local library by the time I was 12.

You had to be 15 or 16 to upgrade to the Adult section .................. I lied to the Librarian, who pretended to believe me, and gave me an adult card.

I'd only been going there, to that same Librarian, on my own since I was about 7, taking out my limit of 7 books a week!

Ann of Green Gables never entered my view.

neither did Narnia


BUT I have been to Green Gables, in PEI.

It's a lovely house!


Ann of Green Gables is beloved in Japan ....... and there is quite an industry catering weddings for Japanese couples at Green Gables. The couple flies over from Japan for 3 days to a week, a company in PEI has by that time set up the whole wedding for them ............. white dress and all.


sylvia

Rilla's boyfriend was the son of Leslie and Owen Ford, who appear in 'Anne's house of dreams'...a mine of useless information I am lol.

There was an Ann sequel done for TV a few years back, where Gilbert is the one in WWI I think. It was in two parts. I watched part 1, had part 2 on tape and as usual lost track of where it was and never watched it. Something else for No.2 to find and download for me.

Here we are

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158466/

Megan Follows -- I was trying to remember her name just two nights ago and couldn't for the life of me. We were watching a Law & Order UK and I was reciting the original episode it was taken from, in which she was the guest star (mother of developmentally disabled child burns down house).

People tend not to like that TV movie:

"Lucy Maud Montgomery's original material would have been such a beautiful conclusion to the Anne/Gilbert love story. They married after he finished med school, they lived in pretty little cottage until he set up a practice in a place called Ingleside, where they raised seven children (not including Anne's first child who died in infancy). Montgomery even went on to write a book about Rilla, Anne's youngest daughter.

Speaking of her daughter, factually Rilla's boyfriend served in World War I! What an unnecessary leap in time!"


"Factually"? ;)

~~~ Ann,

I have seen a few tv series and films of Ann books, but 'Rilla' would make a good film I think, one I'd like to see...if it was done 'properly' lol.

Used to love Ann of green Gables books as well.

You would remember if you had Janey, Ann's sons go to fight in WW1,. It's rather a good little vignette of WW1 I think as it is more or less the Canadian 'homefront' and the passage of the war itself as seen through the eyes of Rilla her youngest daughter

You've got me beat -- I read the Ann books and some others, but not that one I think, although I don't remember mayybe ... it was soooo long ago. ;)

Actually, I probably did read all of them. I read all of anything.

I drew my 13-yr-old niece for the family secret Santa swap this year. I'm sure she's got them all already, though! My mum has wanted to get the girls the Emily of New Moon television series. I'll have to see whether No.1 can find it for downloading.

I've read all the Ann books Janey, still have most of them and 'Rilla of Ingleside', which is probably my favourite...I sob every time I read 'Dog Monday' welcome Jem home lol.

Also born today in history:

Dr. John McCrae 1872-1918

physician, poet, was born on this day at Guelph, Ontario in 1872; died of pneumonia in Boulogne, France, Jan. 28, 1918.

McCrae won a scholarship to the University of Toronto; had to take a year off due to severe asthma, which recurred throughout his life; 1894 attended U of T medical school; 1898 MD and gold medal; resident at Toronto General Hospital; 1899 interned at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with his brother Thomas, as associates of Dr. William Osler; 1899 led Guelph contingent, D Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, in the South African War; 1901 resumed studies in pathology at McGill; Governor's Fellow in pathology and resident assistant pathologist, with research work at McGill and autopsy duties at Montreal General Hospital; 1902 resident pathologist at Montreal General; 1904 associate in medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital; 1905 set up his own practice; 1909 a major contributor's to Osler's Modern Medicine, a 10-volume textbook; 1910 served as expedition physician when the Governor General, Lord Grey, journeyed by canoe from Norway House on Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay; 1912 co-authored a textbook on pathology;

1914 appointed brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with the rank of Major; April 1915 in the trenches at the Second Battle of Ypres, and treated the effects of poison gas; wrote the poem In Flanders Fields in memory of the death of one of his close friends; first published in England's Punch magazine December, 1915.


'In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.'


1916 Chief of Medical Services at No. 3 (McGill) Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Cammiers in France; February 1916 moved to ruins of the Jesuit College at Boulogne; 1917 troubled by severe asthma attacks and bronchitis; January 1918 moved to Number 14 British General Hospital for Officers, where he died of pneumonia and meningitis;

1919 In Flanders Fields and Other Poems published posthumously; because of the poem's popularity, the poppy was adopted as the Flower of Remembrance for the war dead of Britain, France, the US, Canada and other Commonwealth countries.

No, not you, Ann of Green Gables. ;) And not really Ann -- but her creator.

http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Nov&day=30

Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942

writer, born on this day at Clifton, Prince Edward Island; died in Toronto April 24, 1942. Toronto April 24, 1942.

Montgomery was raised in Cavendish, and educated at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University.

She wrote the best seller Anne of Green Gables in 1908, and seven sequels, as well as the Emily trilogy.

She also wrote The Island Hymn, an ode to PEI, approximately 500 short stories and almost 450 poems. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald and moved near Uxbridge Ontario. At her death, she left over 5,000 pages of unpublished personal diaries, from 1889 to 1942, that are now being edited and published.


"Ann" books, movies and television series are always good choices for Christmas prezzies for girls!