# Anne of Avonlea — Character guide

> Key figures in Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery.

- [Anne Shirley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/anne_shirley.md): At nineteen, Anne has traded her own schooldays for a classroom in Avonlea, where she pours her romantic imagination into teaching and helping Marilla raise the newly adopted twins. Her ache over parting with her scholar
- [Marilla Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/marilla_cuthbert.md): Having raised Anne from a scrawny orphan into a young woman, Marilla now finds herself adopting the Keith twins and juggling a household that refuses to stay orderly. Her grim face on the drive home from the funeral bare
- [Davy Keith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/davy_keith.md): Davy arrives at Green Gables newly motherless, all perpetual motion and unfiltered commentary, forever tugging Dora's curls or sneaking onto forbidden tables. He wants to be good but finds there are simply too many corne
- [Dora Keith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/dora_keith.md): Dora is the still counterweight to her brother's chaos, a girl who sits starched and silent while Davy grabs pony tails and tumbles into lemon pies. Her timidity makes her easy to overlook, and her disappearance sends Ma
- [Gilbert Blythe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/gilbert_blythe.md): Gilbert has moved from classroom competitor to trusted ally, teaming with Anne to write the mischievous 'Avonlea Notes' and taking the joke on himself as a blind. Village gossip insists he and Charlie Sloane are rivals f
- [Diana Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/diana_barry.md): Diana remains Anne's sworn confidante, the one who shares her anxieties over tardy guests and lends a steadying hand when lemon pies meet disaster. Where Anne dreams, Diana manages, and her quiet competence keeps the Avo
- [Mr. J. A. Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/mr_j_a_harrison.md): Anne's irascible neighbour, armed with a sarcastic parrot and a stubborn belief in the rod, who trades barbs with her across the veranda.
- [Mrs. Rachel Lynde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/mrs_rachel_lynde.md): Avonlea's blunt-tongued oracle of opinion, whose forty-five-year friendship with Marilla makes her the unlikely hinge on which Anne's college hopes swing.
- [Paul Irving](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/paul_irving.md): Anne's small, dreamy pupil, raised on porridge and grandmotherly discipline, who prays nightly for grace to finish his plate and longs for the father away on business.
- [Lavendar Lewis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/lavendar_lewis.md): Echo Lodge's whimsical mistress, seventeen at heart and middle-aged in fact, who keeps a broken engagement and a dream-boy tucked among her echoes.
- [Charlotta the Fourth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/charlotta_the_fourth.md): Echo Lodge's devoted young maid, all widest smiles and literal wonder, who loves her mistress's visitors for her mistress's sake.
- [Stephen Irving](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/stephen_irving.md): Paul's reserved, long-absent father, whose return to Avonlea stirs old promises and the quiet ache of a courtship abandoned years before.
- [Anthony Pye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/anthony_pye.md): A difficult student in Anne's class who eventually respects her.
- [Jane Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/jane_andrews.md): Anne's practical friend who becomes a teacher in White Sands.
- [Priscilla Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/priscilla_grant.md): Anne's friend from Queen's Academy who visits Avonlea.
- [Mrs. Allan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/mrs_allan.md): The minister's wife, a kind and supportive friend to Anne.
- [Ginger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/ginger.md): Mr. Harrison's foul-mouthed parrot who causes trouble.
- [Young Mary Joe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_avonlea_se/characters/young_mary_joe.md): The hired girl at Green Gables, often scolded by Marilla.

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