Kate Scarth

And they're kind of helping me get set up there.

But in terms of like other reading, I mean, I certainly I think that there are links back to Montgomery in terms of a lot of the things that I enjoy.

So I love

Books about houses, for example, women's stories.

So, you know, you can see that there are links back to Montgomery.

And I was reading her at such a young age and loving her at such a young age that probably those influences were inevitable.

Yeah.

So some of the things are what you might expect.

It's meant to emphasize that someone is bookish or studious or imaginative or maybe a bit hyperactive or chatty.

So these characteristics that we might associate with Anna Green Gables.

But sometimes the references are negative as well.

So I recently did a post on Instagram about...

references to Anna Green Gables by writers from Newfoundland, so the island where I grew up.

And in some cases, it's very much like we're from the same part of the world.

And of course, Ella Montgomery influenced me, like Lisa Moore, the novelist, talks about that.

But then sometimes it's like, well, you know, it's real life here on Newfoundland, like where it's harsher and Prince Edward Island, like life is easy.

And so Anna Green Gables is, yeah, associated with like tourism and summer.

And so it can be very dismissive as well to kind of show like, well, what we're doing over here is like gritty and real life.

And that's kind of interesting too, actually, because it goes back to how,

in the 1920s and 30s, modernist critics started to be very dismissive of Montgomery's work.