While previous films and adaptations have focused on continuing Anne’s life or on the village of Avonlea, Marilla of Green Gables instead explores the background of Green Gables and the story of the first girl who grew up there: Marilla Cuthbert. Sarah McCoy’s take on the Green Gables story is very timely as the appetite for more stories from Green Gables has never been stronger. The most recent of these is the Netflix series, which has been hugely popular. Lucy Maud Montgomery was a prolific author, but it is the Anne books that remain perennially popular from one generation to the next and which have been revisited many times in TV and film adaptations. This year marks the one hundred and tenth anniversary since Anne of Green Gables was first published. An Unsung Heroine’s Voice: Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
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