Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

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Wait - all those maids and hired hands described as French are actually black, aren't they?

I think I preferred the books before I realised that.

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Also, I totally agree with you about Anne, and have wondering the same thing. I don't know whether it's just the non-realist, fairy-tale trope of "poor, neglected child makes good" - in the same way that Harry Potter seems to suffer no psychological ill-effects after 11 years stuck in a cupboard - or whether the fact that Anne had poor but middle-class parents and lived with them for the first four (five?) years of her life means that she is able to retain her membership of the middle-classes, despite by being brought up by very poor families after that.