emily byrd starr

@emily-byrd-starr is me too

[the-piper-and-the-lion]

Emily of New Moon - chapter VII

[leseigneurdelorage]

I have just started reading lm montgomery's Emily, and holy cow what is wrong with you ellen greene??

[late-moonie-thoughts]

my very strong head canon is that isle and emily are meant for each other.

[fangirldoesthings]

At least they both met as adults this time…

[charnel-grounds]

Miriam Hoffmann (b. 1991), “Riddle”

oil on linen, 2024

source

[mrs-d4rcy]

fuck dating apps im gonna find love the old fashioned way(he tries to talk to me and i break a slate on his head)

[lonnieontherun]

Kris Lemche as Perry Miller in "Emily of New Moon"

[gogandmagog]

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

🥹 anne gets her pearl ring 💍

[avantegarda]

why aren't any of you making memes about LM Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series? Do I have to do everything myself?

[gogandmagog]

@no-where-new-hero

[gogandmagog]

Any thoughts on WHY it had to be Walter?

so many??? is this from an old tag? 🧐 speaking very generally, i think it ‘had to be’ walter bc he's kind of intentionally portrayed as one of the least traditionally masculine male characters in the series. imo maud chose/marked him as the Ultimate Hero, not only in hopes of broadening the ‘acceptable’ definition of manhood, but also to elevate a feminine, rather than masculine, moral framework.

[wizardissues]

love and light to anne of green gables but we have enough anne of green gables adaptations and they are all so beautiful. i want emily my gothic witch princess to truly have her time in the sunlight where she gets to be the insufferably stubborn little freak we all know she is.

[no-where-new-hero]

something about Singer Sargent's work always makes me think about Teddy Kent...like he would have seen the beauty of the world and people through similar eyes...

[gogandmagog]

Diana Blythe is one of my absolute favorite Blythe kids, and I saw you mention in a previous post about her being engaged to an officer in Readying Rilla? I would love to hear more about where that came from, when you have time. Her romance sounds like the stuff of Anne’s young dreams!

yes! it is in readying rilla! it was rather ambiguously struck out, while still yet persisting in the sequence of notes officially given over to maud’s typist (the j note similarly mentioned btw is just a comment about the size of someone’s feet), so it’s unclear whether or not this was meant to be maybe squished in somewhere else or if it was purposefully cut altogether.

here you go:

i think that’s really cute though – the idea of practical di having a fantastical romance with some dashing overseas hero, very young anneish indeed. myself, i rather like to fancy that this overseas fellow is in the royal navy even though ‘soldier’ implies a land based duty lmao, so di might live out some of those funny ‘unremorseful pirate’-esque fantasies exchanged between her and nan and jill, in the blythes are quoted! this is also probably more interesting a manifestation of di shaped romance than the one-liner we get in tbaq about a certain mysterious ‘austin boy’ from the glen, that people speculate she’s engaged to as well. unlessssss this is the same guy? idk idk. ‘austin’ was a brand new surname for maud to throw into the glen mix, 🧐🧐🧐🧐 … though, on the other hand, i’m sure the glen folks wouldn’t have referred to an officer as a ‘boy’! soo.

[batrachised]

interesting to me that between Davy, Paulina, Bruce, and Jims, our dear little Jims is the only one LMM comes close to pulling off imo. However for the sake of argument (and to echo an earlier poll!)

who is the most well-written character?

davy

paul

bruce

jims

Voting ended onJul 23, 2025

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I personally love and buy them all—but why did you call Paul Irving Paulina? What am I missing?

[batrachised]

LMAO because I have a friend named Paulina, and autocorrect did its thing 🤣 poor Paul!

[emilyclimbs]

I automatically assumed Pauline Harris 🤣

[disgustinggf]

[batrachised]

interesting to me that between Davy, Paul, Bruce, and Jims, our dear little Jims is the only one LMM comes close to pulling off imo. However for the sake of argument (and to echo an earlier poll!)

who is the most well-written character?

davy

paul

bruce

jims

Voting ended onJul 23, 2025

[batrachised]

This chapter has me wanting to know more about Hannah! She married young! Her husband sucks! She's kind! She's Rilla's friend! She keeps her doors open to all!

[gogandmagog]

i think it’s sooo interesting that hannah is a brewster too (even if she only married in). we learn in tbaq that the brewsters (the chapter with little walter jr pat, ‘the cursed child’) have a weird relationship with the blythes (“there was some distant relationship between dr. blythe’s mother and uncle stephen [brewster]*”), sure, but it’s in the same chapter that also we hear, “nobody in the brewster clan, it seemed, approved of the blythes.” sooo it basically deeply tracks that hannah’s husband sucks, bc that chapter of tbaq spends 75% of the text reinforcing the same notion (pat is bullied by these people – he’s scared of his aunts and uncles, thinks they’re only pretending to cry at uncle stephen’s death, etc etc).

*i’ve seen a total of (2) scholarly takes on this, but most seem to agree/take this to means they’re cousins. the text in this line in saying that pat wouldn’t have been allowed to visit ingleside if it weren’t for the aforementioned ‘distant relationship’ – and it seems stronger to suggest this means a distant familial tie vs the vague friendship of an uncle, but ofc a grain of salt is necessary here