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Jun 3, 2011 · Rilla of Ingleside tells the story of Anne’s youngest daughter Rilla (namesake of Marilla Cuthbert) and her coming of age during World War I in Canada. Rilla is 15 when the book opens–giddy, giggly, and full of life–but her mother laments her lack of ambition.
Rilla's brother Walter, who is of age, does not enlist, ostensibly due to a recent bout with typhoid but truly because he fears the ugliness of war and death. He confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- 1921
Mar 30, 2014 · This is one of the few enduring titles of war fiction and it contains a cultural memory of the trauma and horrors Canadian men endured. Through Rilla’s older brothers, Jem and Walter Blythe, aspects of what Anglo-Canadian men faced can be discerned, allowing readers an understanding of WWI. Summary
Walter Cuthbert Blythe is a fictional character in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series of novels. He appears as a major character in three books; within the series chronology, they are Anne of Ingleside (book 6, published in 1939), Rainbow Valley (book 7, pub. 1919) and Rilla of Ingleside (book 8, pub. 1921).
Nov 30, 2012 · Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside is endangered by a far-off war.
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Feb 4, 2022 · To modern-day students of history, Rilla of Ingleside reads like a time capsule. Not only is it one of the only fictional accounts of Canadian women’s experiences of WWI, but because it was published within three years of the Armistice, it captures popular wartime sentiment without any of the cynicsm that colored later accounts of the Great War.
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Rilla read her letter over many times. There was a new light on her pale young face when she finally stood up, amid the asters Walter had loved, with the sunshine of autumn around her. For the moment at least, she was lifted above pain and loneliness. “I will keep faith, Walter,” she said steadily.
