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Jun 3, 2011 · 15-year-old Rilla is smitten with Ken Ford, the son of Anne’s dear friend Leslie (Moore) Ford of Anne’s House of Dreams. There is something very fitting (and very romantic) about a Blythe girl falling for Ken–a circle being completed.
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth and last novel in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert 's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- 1921
- Anne’s Children and The War
- Maternalism, Romance and War
- Historians and The First World War
In Rilla, the lives of Anne’s children are transformed by the war. During the First World War, more than 400,000 Canadian men fought overseas and more than 60,000 lost their lives. Most went bravely in search of adventure and out of loyalty to Canada and to the British Empire. Like Anne’s children, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters and girlf...
The heroine, Rilla, is just 14 when the war breaks out. She’s a silly young girl, excited about going to her first dance. But the war forces her to assume adult responsibilities. On a journey to collect supplies for the Red Cross, she discovers a child whose mother has just passed away. The father has already enlisted. Unwilling to leave the baby i...
Historians have long claimed that Canada, as a nation, was forged at the battle of Vimy Ridge. As the argument goes, it was not until the First World War, 50 years after Confederation, that Canadians discovered that what bonded them together as a nation was found in the courage of their young solders. Rilla of Inglesideis part of this mythology. Je...
- Catherine Carstairs
As if a Toronto boy like Ken Ford would ever really think of a country girl like Ethel!" Rilla flushed. It did not matter to her if Kenneth Ford walked home with Ethel Reese a dozen times—it did not! Nothing that he did mattered to her. He was ages older than she was.
Aug 31, 2024 · Rilla of Ingleside is one of the only contemporary fictional accounts of the experiences of women and young people at the Canadian home front during the First World War. Montgomery began writing the book within months of the war’s end in November 1918 and the death of her first cousin and closest friend, Frederica Campbell McFarlane, to whose ...
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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Rilla looked very sweet when she met Ken in the mingled moonlight and vine shadows of the big veranda. The hand she gave him was cold and she was so desperately anxious not to lisp that her greeting was prim and precise.
