Anne of Green Gables Encyclopedia Page

People

Sadler, John

Sampson, Bertha

Selitsky, Madame

Spencer, Alexander Mrs.

Places

Snow Queen

Spencervale

John Sadler: John Sadler is a man from Carmody who wants to buy Green Gables from Marilla, and Marilla seriously considers the offer since Matthew has passed away. She has been told that she might become completely blind in six months.
AoGG:Chapter 38
Bertha Sampson: "Bertha and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had been asked to sing a duet" at a benefit concert at the White Sands hotel for the Charlottetown hospital.
AoGG:Chapter 33
Madame Selitsky: She was a prima donna that Diana and Anne heard while they were in Charlottetown visiting Miss Josephine Barry. "Madame Selitysky was perfectly beautiful, and wore white satin and diamonds. But when she began to sing I never thought about anything else. Oh, I can't tell you how I felt" was Anne's comment to Marilla about the concert.
AoGG:Chapter 29
Geraldine Seymour: One of Anne's fictional characters in "The Jealous Rival"; also, called "Death Not Divided." The other character was Cordelia Montmorency. When Diana asked what happened to them, Anne explained
They [Cordelia and Geraldine Seymour] grew in beauty side by side until they were sixteen. Then Bertram DeVere came to their native village and fell in love with the fair Geraldine. He saved her life when her horse ran away with her in a carriage, and she fainted in his arms and he carried her home three miles; because, you understand, the carriage was all smashed up...[nonrelevant conservational material between Anne and Diana deleted]...I made it [proposal] very flowery and poetical and Bertram went on his knees, ...Geraldine accepted him in a speech a page long...Bertram gave her a diamond ring and a ruby necklace and told her they would go to Europe for a wedding tour, for he was immensely wealthy. But then, alas, shadows began to darken over their path. Cordelia was secretly in love with Bertram herself and when Geraldine told her about the engagement she was simply furious, especially when she saw the necklace and the diamond ring. All her affection for Geraldine turned to bitter hate and she vowed that she should never marry Bertram. But she pretended to be Geraldine's friend the same as ever. One evening they were standing on the bridge over a rushing turbulent stream and Cordelia, thinking they were alone, pushed Geraldine over the brink with a wild mocking, 'Ha, ha, ha.' But Bertram saw it all and he at once plunged into the current, exclaiming, 'I will save thee, my peerless Geraldine.' But alas, he had forgotten he couldn't swim, and they were both drowned, clasped in each other's arms. Their bodies were washed ashore soon afterwards. They were buried in the one grave and their funeral was most imposing...As for Cordelia, she went insane with remorse and was shut up in a lunatic asylum.
AoGG:Chapter 26
Barbara Shaw: Barbara is one of Anne's students at the Avonlea school. She came to Avonlea to live with an aunt, and she seems to be somewhat clumsy, and people in the school regarded it as a major feat if she could get up the aisle without upsetting anything.
AoA:Chapters 5, 10
Mr. Shearer: Mr. Shearer offers to buy Dolly, Anne's Jersey cow from her, but Anne refuses preferring that all the stock go together. After Dolly invades Mr. Harrison's oat field three times, sh e regrets not having sold Dolly to Mr. Shearer. He comes along when Anne discovers a Jersey cow in Mr. Harrison's field and buys the Jersey cow (which Anne thinks is Dolly) right then and there for 20 dollars.
AoA:Chapters 1-3
Jim Shearer: Mr. Shearer's son who drives the Jersey cow that Anne sold to Carmody.
AoA:Chapter 2
Anne Shirley: The main character of Anne of Green Gables is an orphan adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. When adopted, she was about 11, and "Her face was small, white and thin, also frekcled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, that looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others." She also has red hair. "...the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; . . ." She was born in Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia to Walter Shirley and Bertha Shirley. After her parents when she was three months old, she went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas until she was eight years old. She moved from Bolingbroke to Marysville during the time she lived with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. Once Mr. Thomas died, she went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Hammond until Mr. Hammond died. At that time she was placed in the Hopetown orphan asylum. She does really well in school after coming back in all subjects except geometry once she gets promoted to the fifth class. She was secretary of the Avonlea Village Improvement Society.
Editor's note: I figure the whole book is about Anne Shirley so I won't be referencing her by chapter.
Bertha Shirley: The mother of Anne Shirley who was a teacher at Bolingbroke High School until she married Walter Shirley. She died three months of the fever after Anne was born.
AoGG:Chapter 5
Walter Shirley: The father of Anne Shirley, and a teacher in the Bolingbroke High School. He died four days from the fever after his wife died of the same cause. Both of them were as poor as church mice according to Mrs. Thomas.
AoGG:Chapter 5
Mrs. Sloane: Anne saw Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears after her part in the concert to raise money for a flag for the school.
AoGG:Chapter 25
Arty Sloane: One of Anne's students at the Avonlea school. On the first day, Anne reasoned that the Donnell boy was sitting with him in a corner seat.
AoA:Chapter 5
Carrie Sloane: Her father would not let her go to the Debating Club concert, and she "cried into her grammar all the afternoon and felt that life was not worth living." She dared Ruby Gillis "to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door [of the Barry house]." Ruby Gillis took the dare and was successful to the disappointment of Carrie.
AoGG:Chapters 19, 21, 23-24
Charlie Sloane: Diana says that Charlie is "dead gone" on Anne. Charlie is well known for his "goggle eyes." His name was written up with Em White while Anne was gone from school. He contributes to Anne's fright about the Haunted Wood when he tells the story that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year. He also fought with Moody Spurgeon MacPherson "because Moody Spurgeon had said that Anne Shirley put on airs about her recitations, and Moody Spurgeon was 'licked;' consequently Moody Spurgeon's sister, Ella May MacPherson would not 'speak' to Anne Shirely all the rest of the winter. He was part of the Queen's class.
AoGG:Chapters 15-17, 20, 26, 30-31, 34, 37
Clifton Sloane: A member of A.V.I.S., he drives the milk to the CarmodyCheese Factory, and is asked by Major Spencer whether milk stands would have to meet with the Improvers approval by next summer.
AoA:Chapter 6
Mrs. Hiram Sloane: Diana comments that the A.V.I.S. will need to persuade Mrs. Hiram Sloane to keep her cow out of any geraniums that might be planted as part of an improvement project for the three-cornered piece where the roads from Carmody and Newbridge and White Sands meet. She had "heard" that A.V.I.S. "meant to plow up all the roadsides and set them out with geraniums." After the painting of the Avonlea hall was mishandled, she "beckoned" Anne and told her that if the Improvers wanted to make a geranium bed at the crossroads in the Spring they would not have to worry about her cow getting out.
AoA:Chapters 2, 6, 9
Josiah Sloane: Eben Wright wanted A.V.I.S. to "induce" old Josiah Sloane to keep his whiskers trimmed.
AoA:Chapter 6
Oliver Sloane: He made the motion at the second A.V.I.S. meeting to start a subscription to re-shingle and paint the Avonlea hall.
AoA:Chapters 6, 9
Peter Sloane: Peter Sloane rents his old house to the Donnells and hired them to help him run his mill. He was asked by his wife what octogenarians were. He said he didn't know, "but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying." He was also a magistrate who told the Improvers after the painting of the hall was mishandled that they would have to pay Joshua Pye his money even though he should have suspected that the wrong color had been chosen.
AoA:Chapters 1-2, 9
Mrs. Peter Sloane: She had been reading a newspaper and noticed that another octogenarian had died, and she asked her husband what an octogenarian was. He told her they must be sickly creatures because they were dying all the time.
AoA:Chapter 2
Sam Sloane: He "proceeded to explain and illustrate 'How Sockery Set a Hen'" at the Avonlea Debating Club concert.
AoGG:Chapter 19
Silas Sloane: During Anne's first spring in Avonlea, behind Silas Sloane's place, "away up in the barrens", "Mayflowers blossomed out, pink and white stars of sweetness under their brown leaves."
AoGG:Chapter 20
Sophia Sloane: Sophia on the first day of school for Anne in Avonlea "`lent me a lovely pink card with "May I see you home?" on it.'" When Anne came back to school, she offered to teach Anne "a perfectly elegant new pattern of knit lace, so nice for trimming aprons."
AoGG:Chapters 15, 17
Tommy Sloane: He lost his team of racing crickets when Anne broke her slate on Gilbert Blythe's head.
AoGG:Chapter 15
Mr. Smith: He was prospective minister for Avonlea after Mr. Bentley left whose delivery left much to be desired and had no imagination like Mr. Bentley.
AoGG:Chapter 21
Mrs. Alexander Spencer: She adopted a little girl from a Hopetown asylum. She helps arrange an adoption for Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. She goes onto White Sands where she lives in a big yellow house in the Cove. She was supposed to bring the boy for Matthew and Marilla to the Bright River station.
AoGG:Chapters 1-6, 34
Andrew Spencer: According to Mrs. Peter Blewett, Mr. Spencer doesn't approve of Gilbert's teaching methods.
Doctor Spencer: He has been "fussing" with eyeglasses for Marilla while Anne was away at Queen's.
AoGG:Chapter 36-37
Flora Jane Spencer: Flora Jane is Mrs. Alexander Spencer's daughter who confirms that the word they received was that the Cuthberts wanted to adopt a girl.
AoGG:Chapter 6
Isabella Spencer: Canvassed by Anne and Diana Barry for a contribution for the re-shingling and painting of the Avonlea hall, she "made them miserable by saying something ill-natured about everyone in Avonlea.
AoA:Chapter 6
James Spencer: Mr. Spencer wanted A.V.I.S. to "kindly shovel down the church hill."
AoA:Chapter 6
Laura Spencer: "Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley were to recite" at a benefit concert at the White Sands hotel for the Charlottetown hospital.
AoGG:Chapter 33
Major Spencer: He asked Clifton Sloane whether it was true that A.V.I.S. of which Clifton was a member was going to require "that everybody would have to have his milk stand hand-painted next summer and keep an embroidered centerpiece on it. After the painting of the Avonlea hall was mishandled, he sent word to the Improvers "that he would clean out all the stumps along the road front of his farm and seed it down down with grass at his own expense..."
AoA:Chapters 6, 9
Nancy Spencer: Nancy is Robert Spencer's daughter who passes the word to Mrs. Alexander Spencer that the Cuthberts wanted a girl to adopt. Mrs. Alexander Spencer feels that Nancy is a "terrible flighty thing" who has needed to be scolded for her "heedlessness".
AoGG:Chapter 6
Richard Spencer: Marilla Cuthbert sends word through Richard Spencer's folks to Mrs. Alexander Spencer that she and Matthew would like to adopt a boy. When Anne arrives at Green Gables in place of a boy, Marilla feels that Richard Spencer twisted the message sent onto Mrs. Alexander Spencer.
AoGG:Chapters 1, 3
Robert Spencer: Mrs. Spencer's brother who was asked by Matthew and Marilla to tell Mrs. Spencer to adopt a boy.
Editor's Note: This seems to contradict in that earlier, in chapter 1, Marilla tells Rachel Lynde that the word was passed through Richard Spencer's folks.
AoGG:Chapter 6
Henry Sprott: The neighbor of Mary Keith who according to Rachel Lynde is the most profane man that ever lived.
AoA:Chapters 7, 10
Jimmy Sprott: According to Davy Keith, when Jimmy's sister contradicts Jimmy, he says, "I'm oldern you, so of course I know better" and Davy says that "settles her."
AoA:Chapter 8
Mrs. Sprott: It was enough of Mrs. Sprott to bake the bread of Keith's that she couldn't handle cake, too.
AoA:Chapter 8
Muriel Stacy: Miss Stacy came to teach at Avonlea the second year that Anne went to school there. She was the first woman teacher of Avonlea. According to Diana Barry, "she has the loveliest fair curly hair and such fascinating eyes. She dresses beautifully, and her sleeve pufss are bigger than anybody's else in Avonlea. She has her Avonlea students do the unheard (at least in to Mrs. Lynde) activity of having a field day on Fridays to explore the outdoors when they are not doing recitations. Anne found that "Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally." She taught at Avonlea until Anne left for Queen's.
AoGG:Chapters 22-24, 26-27, 29-35
AoA:Chapter 4
Frank Stockley: At Queen's, Frank boards at the same place as Josie Pye. Josie mentions that he asked about Anne. His uncle is one of the board of governors of Queen's. According to Josie, Frank "says that Professor Tremaine said Gilbert Blythe was sure to get the medal and that Emily Clay would like win the Avery scholarship.
AoGG:Chapter 34-35

Snow Queen: The name Anne gives to the apple tree outside of her east gable room. It is a big tree that blooms great, but its fruit is wormy and small. Anne regards it as "radiantly beautiful".
AoGG:Chapters 4, 7-8, 20, 36
Spencervale: Spencervale is where Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ross are from. It is also where Matthew had to go to get a doctor for Minnie May when she was sick with croup.
AoGG:Chapters 16, 18, 31, 33

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Last Modified: 18 Oct 1999