talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

Rilla of Ingleside created a new timeline...

Anne's House of Dreams mentioned a historical event - a federal election: “Mistress Blythe, the Liberals are in with a sweeping majority. After eighteen years of Tory mismanagement this down-trodden country is going to have a chance at last.” (AHoD).

From Wikipedia: "The 1896 Canadian federal election was held on June 23, 1896, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Charles Tupper, won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats to form the next government. The election ended 18 years of Conservative rule."

It wouldn't be surprsing, but... it was also the year in which Jem Blythe was born! The election took place few weeks after his birth: "When Anne came downstairs again, the Island, as well as all Canada, was in the throes of a campaign preceding a general election." (AHoD).

So... according to this timeline, Walter was born a year later (1897), then the twins (1899), Shirley (1901) and Rilla (1903).

The point is... at the outbreak of the war, Walter would have been only 17 years old, the twins 15, Shirley 13, Rilla 11...

Shirley would have been too young to participate in the war and Walter would have barely turned nineteen at the time of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September of 1916...

Someone in one of my older posts noticed that puff sleeves fashion suggested that Anne of Green Gables took place in 1880s rather than 1870s... so it would make sense!

I wonder why Montgomery chose Rilla as her teenage heroine (according to the original chronology, Rilla should have been only 11 years old), while there were 15-year-old twins...

Can you imagine Nan and Di as the main characters of the war book? Two young girls at Queen's, trying to come to terms with rapidly changing world? Rilla and Shirley at Ingleside, growing closer in such trying times? Teenage boys - Jem and Walter - who had to choose if they wanted to sacrifice their life at even younger age - at eighteen? Walter, never reaching the age of twenty (or maybe - dare I hope - coming back home safely)? Anne and Gilbert in their 40s, trying to collect all the broken pieces that was once their family?

It would have been equally good, in my opinion. I wonder... why Montgomery felt she had to suddenly change a whole chronology?

Side note: of course, I love Rilla of Ingleside. But I am just curious... (Nan and Di of Ingleside would be a good book, too!).

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This is a very good observation @the-moral-of-the-rose. I agree with you. I always wanted to know more about Nan and Di. I had a feeling that their adult versions would be interesting as well. I wish we had the chance to read more about them. We know that they are ambitious, I think it would be nice to read about their lives during their training and their feelings and thoughts during the war.

Exactly! I feel that a lot of twins' personalities (which shone so wonderfully during Anne of Ingleside) was lost during Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside. Or rather - Anne of Ingleside was a way of giving them some personality, because it was written than RV and RoI?

Anyway, I absolutely agree - it would be so neat to know more about teenage Nan and Di and their struggles. Not to mention, Rilla at eleven and Shirley at thirteen! What a duo these two would be. I wish we got more of two youngest kids...

This does make sense. LMM seems to fudge the timeline when it suits her purposes. I once tried to work out a timeline of Pat of Sliverbush based on a reference to the Queen and it never quite worked out.

Pat was born in 1913: "But what's a widdy more or less in the world now after the Great War? Do ye be remimbering anything av it, Pat?"

"I was five when the armistice was signed. I remember the fireworks at the bridge . . ." (Pat of Silver Bush).

Of course, WWII ought to happen in Mistress Pat (since Pat was 31 by the end), but the book had been written in 1935... so, it is quite understandable :).

A reference to Queen Victoria's death is also found in Emily Climbs: "She would be dying two years ago and Prince Bertie would be the king at last."

Queen Victoria died in 1901. So, Emily was fifteen in 1903, so she ought to be twenty six when WWI happened (and there was no mention about it, even though Emily was at the very least 27 by the end of third book).

So yes, Montgomery liked playing with timeline, it seems:).

Oh, I would LOVE “The Ingleside Girls” story looking at the different and varied interactions with the war between Nan, Di, and Rilla … Nan dealing with Jerry going off to war just as their friendship is starting to blossom into the possibility of something more, and the upending of her orderly, controlled world; Di having the sisterly relationship with Walter and helping him through his struggles once he turned eighteen, as well as wanting to work as a VAD but being too young and therefore looking for other ways to actively participate; and Rilla as a child trying to understand what is happening and yes, drawing closer to 13-year-old Shirley, who understands more and is terrified in his own quiet way but also wants to protect his little sister from that same fear … it would be amazing.

Bonus points if we get Faith Meredith lying about her age to go over to England and join the VAD, and see Una come into her own as well (and while we’re upending the canon, while I love the possibility of an Una/Walter post-war relationship, we already have Jem/Faith and Nan/Jerry … maybe Walter and/or Una could have a romance that doesn’t involve yet a third pairing between Merediths and Blythes?)

Oh, and wouldn’t it be fun to see Carl and Rilla being childhood friends, and going on the occasional moon-spree together?

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