People

Gillis, Charlotte

Gillis, Emily

Gillis, Jack

Gillis, Jenny

Gillis, Mr...

Gillis, Ruby

Gillis, Sara

Gillis, Susan

Ginger

Glover, Jimmy

Grant, Priscilla

Gresham, ... Mr.

Places

Arty Gillis

He was dared by Charlie Sloane to jump over an old well in a big mossy hollow when the Avonlea school children had their lunch down in the hollow. "Arty did it [jumped the well] because he wouldn't take a dare."
AoGG:Chapter 20

Charlotte Gillis

She is mentioned when Anne tries to guess some news that Diana brings, and she guesses that Charlotte and beau will be married in the church after all, and Mrs. Allan wants Anne and Diana to decorate the church. That guess was incorrect. Charlotte's beau feels that getting married in church would seem too much like a funeral.
AoGG:Chapter 29

Emily Gillis

She was gotten to make a pretty evening dress for Anne as Anne prepared for Queen's. Marilla comments that "Emily has got taste, and her fits aren't to be equaled." The dress was prepared "was made up with as many tucks and frills and shirrings as Emily's taste permitted."
AoGG:Chapter 34

Jack Gillis

Prillie Rogerson over her Testament cast "coquettish looks" at him. Anne thinks he is working sums for Prillie, but she hasn't been able to catch him red-handed.
AoA:Chapters 5, 7

Jenny Gillis

Jenny Gillis is Rachel Lynde's niece whose figure matches Anne's so much that when Mrs. Lynde makes a dress for Anne, she uses Jenny as the figure.
AoGG:Chapter 25

Mr. Gillis

Ruby's father. When he measured Anne at one of Ruby's parties the summer before she went to Queen's, Anne had grown two inches.
AoGG:Chapter 31

Ruby Gillis

She tells Anne that Prissy Andrews giggled when Mr. Phillips wrote something on Prissy's slate. "`...and Ruby Gillis says she doesn't believe it had anything to do with the lesson.'" Ruby gives Anne an apple the first day. She also falls victim to Gilbert Blythe pinning her long yellow braid to the back of her seat. She was inclined to be hysterical and cried when Anne brought her slate down on Gilbert Blythe's head. While Anne was gone for that short while from school, Diana told her that Ruby had "charmed all her warts away, ..., with a magic pebble that old Mary Joe from the Creek gave her." After Anne came back to school, "Ruby smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading." Ruby also broke up her friendship with Emma White after the Avonlea Concert because they "quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats. Anne also notes that she should play the part of Elaine in their watery dramatization of Tennyson's work because "she is so fair and has such lovely long golden hair." She was part of the Queen's class. LMM gave a revised description of Ruby as she was going to Queen's.

Ruby was a very handsome young lady, now thinking herself quite as grown up as she really was; she wore her skirts as long as her mother would let her and did her hair up in town, though she had to take it down when she went home. She had larg e, bright-blue eyes, a brilliant complexion, and a plump showy figure. She laughed a great deal, was cheerful and good-tempered, and enjoyed the pleasant things of life frankly.

After finishing Queen's she was planning to take a school "up we st."
AoGG:Chapters 15-18, 20-21, 23-26, 28, 30-35, 37

Sara Gillis

According to a long list of Avonlea schoolmates, Prissy Andrews told Sara that Anne had a pretty nose.
AoGG:Chapter 15

Susan Gillis

Ruby's sister who was proposed by Malcolm Andrews by telling her that his dad had given him the farm and asking "What do you say, darling pet, if we get hitched this fall?"
AoGG:Chapter 26

Ginger

Ginger is Mr. J. A. Harrison's parrot who "swore terribly" and once took a bite out of John Henry Carter's neck when John Henry had gotten too close to the bird cage. Mr. Harrison's brother named the bird.

Maybe it had some reference to his [Ginger] temper. I think a lot of that bird though...you'd be surprised if you knew how much. He has his faults, of course. That bird has cost me a good deal one way and another. Some people object to his swearing habits but he can't be broken of them. I've tried...other people have tried

The bird is a lot of company for Mr. Harrison. Unluckily for Ginger, Davy pulled out six feathers from the bird before Mr. Harrison could stop him.
AoA:Chapters 1, 3-4, 6, 9-10

Jimmy Glover

He shouts "from a patriarchal old spruce" that Mr. Phillips, the schoolmaster, is coming from his house back to the school after dinner. He also had a bet on the question with Ned Wright whether Anne or Gilbert would come out first in the Queen's examination.
AoGG:Chapters 15, 32

Priscilla Grant

A friend of Anne's at Queen's, she is described as a "dream girl" and Anne found her as a "plae spiritual-looking maiden to be full to the brim of mischief and pranks and fun, ..." At the beginning of Anne of Avonlea, Priscilla is employed to teach at the Carmody school.
AoGG:Chapter 35
AoA:Chapters 1, 6

Mr. Gresham

When Mr. Bentley, the minister, leaves Avonlea, Mr. Gresham is one of the prospective candidates to succeed him. Anne regarded him as "... very good man and a very religious man, be he told too many funny stories and made the people laugh in church; ..."
AoGG:Chapter 21

Green Gables

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert live here. It is "big, rambling, orchard-embowered." "It was built at the furthest edge of ... cleared land." There are lots of trees. There is also a brook right below the house.
AoGG:Chapters 1-2, 4, 6-12, 14-16, 18-22, 25, 27-30, 32-38
AoA:Chapters 2, 4, 8-9

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