Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

[ailbhe]

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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The Emily of New Moon books are all about the clash of class privilege with New World social mobility, aren't they? The Murray aristocracy versus Perry's social climb from slums to lawyer's bench. The Murrays selff-mythologise, of course, but I would wonder how aristocratic they really were. Would Presbyterian settlers from Scotland not have been dirt-poor on arrival?