People

Lewis, Lavendar

Lynde, Rachel

Lynde, Thomas

Places

Lover's Lane

Lynde's Hollow

Samuel Lawson

Lawson owned a store in Carmody that Matthew visited in order to try to buy a nice dress for Anne.
AoGG:Chapter 25

Lavendar Lewis

Lavendar quarrelled with Stephen Irving, and she lives near Grafton. They didn't get married, and "she's been as queer as possible ever since, they say...living all by herself in that little stone house she cal ls Echo Lodge" according to Rachel Lynde.
AoA:Chapter 1

Rachel Lynde

In Anne of Green Gables, "Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook." Rachel Lynde could probably be classified as somebody who took notice of everything that relates to the people of Avonlea and its happenings. Unlike so many people, she could take care of other peoples' business and not neglect her own.

She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she "ran" the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary.

She also found "time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting 'cotton warp' quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, . . ." She is also in contrast to Marilla, short and fat. Her husband is Thomas Lynde. At the end of the first book, she estimates her weight at 200 lbs.
AoGG:Chapters 1-2, 9-16, 18-19, 21-32, 36-38
AoA:Chapters 1-10

Thomas Lynde

Thomas Lynde is referred as "Rachel Lynde's husband" who is a "meek, little man." In Anne of Avonlea, he tends to lie on the lounge more often but his wife does not even notice that.
AoGG:Chapters 1, 18, 30, 38
AoA:Chapters 8, 10

Lake of Shining Waters

The name that Anne gave to Barry's Pond for her first time to Green Gables. A year after Anne arrives, "the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters."
AoGG:Chapters 2-5, 7, 13-15, 17, 20, 38

Lynde's Hollow

It is where the brook that traverses the Lynde's property becomes a "quite, well-conducted" stream.
AoGG:Chapters 1-2
AoA:Chapter 8

Lover's Lane

Lover's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm. It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables.

During Anne's first spring in Avonlea, "The maples in Lovers' Lane were red-budded, ..."
AoGG:Chapters 15, 18, 20, 22, 27, 29, 31, 35-36
AoA:Chapter 4

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