Unfortunately, she arrived by mistake her sponsors, the siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, wanted to adopt a boy to help them on their farm, but the neighbour with whom they had sent the message was certain they had requested a girl instead. Hammond had three sets of twins whom Anne helped raise.
She considered herself as cursed by twins Mrs. Hammond divided her children amongst relatives and Anne was sent to the orphanage at Hopetown. Thomas, Anne lived with the troubled Hammond family for some years and was treated as little more than a servant until Mr. Without any other relations, Anne was taken in by the Shirleys housekeeper, Mrs. No specific birthdate is given, but references in later works suggest her date of birth is 5 March 1865.Īnne was orphaned as an infant of three months, when her parents died of typhoid fever. Montgomery used a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit, which she had clipped from New Yorks Metropolitan Magazine and put on the wall of her bedroom, as the model for the face of Anne Shirley and a reminder of her youthful idealism and spirituality.
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