People

Hammond, ...Mr.

Hammond, ...Mrs.

Harris, Lucilla

Harrison, J. A.

Places

Hopetown

Professor Hamilton

An instructor of Anne's presumably at Queen's who advised her to write out some of her thoughts.
AoA:Chapter 7

Mr. Hammond

Mr. Hammond and his wife took care of Anne for over two years until he died.
AoGG:Chapter 5

Mrs. Hammond

Mrs. Hammond found Anne handy with children and took care of her for over two years up the river from Marysville until Mr. Hammond died. She had eight children of which six were twins three times.
AoGG:Chapters 5, 8, 18
AoA:Chapter 1

Lucilla Harris

Lucilla was the niece of Samuel Lawson's wife who worked in his store when Matthew came in to buy a nice dress for Anne.

...she was a niece of his wife's and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge, drooping pompadour, big, rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile. She was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands.

AoGG:Chapter 25

J. A. Harrison

Mr. Harrison is the new "right-hand neighbor" of the Cuthberts. He is a New Brunswick man. Within a month's time of buying the farm of Robert Bell, "he had won the reputation of being an odd person...'a crank,' Mrs. Rachel Lynde said."

In the first place he kept house for himself and had publicly stated that he wanted no fools of women around his diggings. Feminine Avonlea took its revenge by the gruesome tales it related about his house-keeping and cooking.

There was also no formal meal times, dishes were done on rainy Sundays in the "rainwater hogshead".

When he was asked to subscribe to the Rev. Mr. Allan's salary he said he'd wait and see how many dollars' worth of good he got out of his preaching first. . .he didn't believe in buying a pig in a poke. And when Mrs. Lynde went to ask for a contribution to missions. . .and incidentally to see the inside of the house. . .he told her there were more heathens among the old woman gossips in Avonlea than anywhere else he knew of, and he'd cheerfully contribute to a mission for Christianizing them if she'd undertake it.

In his most amiable mood Mr. Harrison could not have been considered a handsome man; he was short and fat and bald; and now, with his round face purple with rage and his prominent blue eyes almost sticking out of his head, Anne thought he was really the ugliest person she had ever seen.

He was quite sensitive about his lack of hair. He refused to give anything to A.V.I.S.'s drive to re-shingle and paint the Avonlea hall.
AoA:Chapters 1-6, 9

Haunted Wood

"The spruce wood over the book" is the reply Anne gives to Marilla when asked what the Haunted Wood was.

We chose the spruce grove because it's so gloomy. Oh, we have imagined the most harrowing things. There's a white lady walks along the brook just about this time of the night and wrings her hands and utters wailing cries. She appears when there is to be a death in the family. And the ghost of a little murdered child haunts the corner up by Idlewild; it creeps up behind you and lays its cold fingers on your hand--so. Oh, Marilla, it gives a shudder to think of it. And there's a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs.

AoGG:Chapters 20-21, 25-26, 28-30, 33, 38
AoA:Chapters 2, 9

Hopetown

Hopetown is where the orphan asylum that Anne was located when she was adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.
AoGG:Chapter 1-2, 5

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