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“” Anne Shirley seethes.”
“Girls often want power, the power granted to them by the myths of America’s happy story.”
“Montgomery’s 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables .”
“The books made my life feel important.”
“Anne of Green Gables is one of the most enduringly popular Anglo-American girlhood novels.”
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“Mesle’s writing about gender, media, and culture has appeared in venues ranging from Studies in American Fiction to InStyle to the New York Times Magazine .”
“Our history, it’s implied, inaugurates the best version of our future.”
“Is there any connection to make between Anne, smashing her slate, and Madonna, “touched for the very first time”?”
“And indeed, girls’ fiction was literally a part of the US imperial project.”
“She grips in her girlish hands the pale wooden frame of her writing slate—or rather, what remains of it.”
“American girls, these stories made it seem, were the best of all possible girls.”
“It’s not hard to see Anne as a part of a conservative backlash to, or rebuttal of, other ’80s media.”
“But PBS didn’t argue for its worth by broadcasting any of Wells’s accounts of Southern Horrors —lynchings, mob rule.”
“Instead, it focused on Anne, a novel about a well-meaning orphan.”
“Montgomery’s true literary genius, across her oeuvre—comes from finding significant and dramatic the subtle machinations of acceptance and judgment that make up most girls’ lives, every day.”
“The global scope of this novelistic narrative reach only made my sense of my American girlhood more powerful.”
“In the 1980s, it loved this sunny Reaganite nostalgia—much like, now, it loves an angrier MAGA version.”
“No Canadian press published the book until the 1980s.”