Author: John H. Willoughby. Printed in Charlottetown PEI Canada, 1995, 1st Edition. RARE: Signed by the Author. A Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book. ELLEN, The Inspiration for 'Anne of Green Gables', is the true story of the orphan whose adoption by Pierce and Rachael Macneill of Canendish, was the inspiration for Anne of Green Gables. L. M. Montgomery kept a notebook where she jotted down ideas for plots, incidents, and characters. At the time she had only written short stories. However in the spring of 1905, when she was looking in her notebook for a suitable serial for a Sunday School paper, she found an entry saying, "Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is sent them." Then the thought finally occurred to Montgomery. Write a book about her. She had the central idea and character. All she had to do was spread it over enough chapters to amount to a book. 1st Edition & Signed by AuthorISBN: 0968084001GC&C Stock #590
