Anne Shirley

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Anne Shirley
Physical information
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Red
Eye colour	Green
Skin colour	Fair
Family information
Family members	Walter Shirley (father) Bertha Shirley (mother) Matthew Cuthbert (adoptive father) Marilla Cuthbert (adoptive mother) Gilbert Blythe (husband) Dominic Blythe (adoptive son) Frannie Blythe (daughter) Rilla Blythe (daughter) John Blythe (father-in-law) Andrew Shirley (half-brother) Birgitte (daughter-in-law)
Family	Shirley family Cuthbert family Blythe family
Affiliation
Education	Avonlea school Queen's Academy
See also
Related pages	Gallery Notes
Portrayal in other universes	Books Realart Pictures RKO Radio Pictures BBC Nippon Animation Sullivan Entertainment animated Green Gables Fables Ana of California Project Green Gables Breakthrough Entertainment CBC

Anne Blythe (née Shirley) was the orphan taken in by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, the daughter of Walter and Bertha Shirley, the best friend of Diana Barry, a friend and eventually the wife of Gilbert Blythe, and the teacher of the Avonlea school and Kingsport Ladies' College.

Etymology

Anne is a female given name of Hebrew origin and means God has favoured me. The spelling, Anne, is a French form of the name Anna.

Her last name, Shirley, means bright meadow.

The surname Blythe comes from the Old English meaning of happy, joyous, blithe.

Behind the scenes

Portrayal

• Megan Follows portrayed Anne in Anne of Green Gables (1985), Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) and Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).
• Barbara Hershey portrayed older Anne in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008).
• Hannah Endicott-Douglas portrayed young Anne in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008).

Trivia

• The current version of the official Anne of Green Gables website describes her as, Anne Shirley with her famous straw hat is the daughter of Walter and Bertha Shirley. She endured a troubled childhood, bouncing from orphanage to orphanage and from one harsh family to another, aided only by her vast imagination and fiery spirit. She was finally adopted by Mathew and Marilla Cuthbert when she was mistakenly left at the Avonlea train station on Prince Edward Island. Anne grows and matures, becoming a teacher and finally realizing her dream of becoming a writer. Eventually she finds love with her best friend Gilbert Blythe.
• Her younger self is described as, After the death of her mother Bertha and abandonment by her father Walter Anne leads a troubled adolescence, bouncing from orphanage to orphanage and from one harsh family to another; until she is taken in by the autocratic Amelia Thomas. She is forced to work in a lumber mill and then later in the Thomas home.
• The older Anne is described as, Older Anne’s lack of solid roots and the memory of those troubles early years where she abandoned by her father after the death of her month, affect her even more as an adult than as a child. In Anne of Green Gables – A New Beginning, Anne grapples with a grown-up family, grandchildren, and the fear that her adopted son may have disappeared in the aftermath of the war.
• The 2017 version of the website described her as, Anne, the fiery and headstrong redhead, was the daughter of Walter and Bertha Shirley. After the death of her mother and her father’s subsequent departure, Anne led a troubled adolescence, bouncing from orphanage to orphanage and from one harsh family to another; until she was finally adopted by Mathew and Marilla Cuthbert when she was mistakenly left at the Avonlea train station on Prince Edward Island.

Gallery

Anne of Green Gables Wiki has 1,256 images of Anne Shirley (view gallery).

Appearances

Film appearances

• Anne of Green Gables (1985)
• Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987)
• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000)
• Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)