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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Class is the dominant model, I'd say. and there are issues of class and skin colour, but it's not black and white, pun intended.

Colour may be part of the equation on class, in terms of local communities, but it's class all the way through.

Anne retains her class, even 'tho she was the poor mouse from the orphanage, as she is the legitimate daughter of married teachers. Her circumstanecs her reduced, but her birth right is assured. She's as 'good' as anyone else. Would not have been so, if she'd been a foundling.

I always find the class and decency undercurrent, very familiar. All that scrubbing and being neat and tidy at all costs. Very poor Scottish. :-)

Cleaniliness, godliness and respect for all others, who are equally clean and tidy, and godly. I always smile when the mother in the poor fishing homes, hears that Emily is from New Moon when they are out selling magazine subscriptions, and she changes the table covering up a level!

T'is a world I know well. :-)