# Anne of the Island — Character guide

> Key figures in Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery.

- [Anne Shirley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/anne_shirley.md): Anne arrives at Redmond with her old Avonlea imaginings intact, rooming with new friends and sending stories out to editors who keep sending them back. When her first attempts at fiction are rejected, she buries the manu
- [Davy Keith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/davy_keith.md): Davy lives at Green Gables with his twin sister Dora, forever fishing, chasing cats, and demanding to know whether an echo is a nymph or a whopper. He announces he is engaged to Stella Fletcher and worries about her fate
- [Philippa Gordon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/philippa_gordon.md): Phil is the pretty, spoiled, irresistible Gordon of Bolingbroke, whose beaux Alec and Alonzo trail her through a summer of drives, dances, and what she calls jamborees. She cheerfully depends on Anne to decide whom she s
- [Gilbert Blythe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/gilbert_blythe.md): Gilbert has loved Anne since Avonlea, but she insists she can give him only friendship, and the two drift into an awkward, half-silent estrangement. He writes to Diana but not to Anne, and his mother's tactless questions
- [Diana Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/diana_barry.md): Diana is the first to celebrate Anne's stories and the first to rage on her behalf when editors send them back, vowing to cancel her subscription to the Canadian Woman in protest. She marries Fred and settles into Avonle
- [Priscilla Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/priscilla_grant.md): Priscilla shares Anne's college years at Redmond and later at Patty's Place, a practical counterweight to Phil's flibbertigibbet ways and Anne's romanticism. She is the friend who listens to Anne's troubles without drama
- [Ruby Gillis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/ruby_gillis.md): Ruby Gillis grew up alongside Anne in Avonlea, the golden-haired charmer who collected admirers the way Anne collected kindred spirits, and whose letters home brim with dances and dresses. Her fate shadows the novel's mi
- [Aunt Jamesina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/aunt_jamesina.md): Aunt Jamesina arrives at Patty's Place as the girls' respectable chaperone, complete with a beloved cat named Joseph and firm opinions on everything from mathematics to modern manners. She fusses over suitors and Sunday 
- [Janet Sweet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/janet_sweet.md): Janet Sweet is the quiet, faithful woman John Douglas loves, kept waiting by his mother's frail health and iron grip on her only son. At the Douglas tea table she blushes, pours, and endures in a hideous dress while old 
- [Mrs. Rachel Lynde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/mrs_rachel_lynde.md): Mrs. Rachel Lynde remains Avonlea's self-appointed moral auditor, measuring Davy's growth, minding Sunday School, and pronouncing on everyone's conduct with terrible confidence. Beneath the gossip runs a genuine, unselfi
- [Marilla Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/marilla_cuthbert.md): Marilla Cuthbert has softened from the stern woman who once took in an unwanted orphan into someone whose smile comes easily and whose eyes grow gentle at the sight of Anne. Counting her sixty years, she reckons she has 
- [Roy Gardner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/roy_gardner.md): Roy Gardner is everything a storybook heroine could want: dark, velvety smiles, poetic compliments, a brilliant match approved by everyone from Mrs. Gardner to Aunt Jamesina. Yet his polished proposal, as beautifully wor
- [Jane Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/jane_andrews.md): A practical friend of Anne's who becomes a teacher and marries a minister.
- [John Douglas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/john_douglas.md): A shy, silent farmer who finally proposes to Janet Sweet after years of courtship.
- [Patty Spofford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/patty_spofford.md): One of the elderly owners of Patty's Place, who rents it to Anne and her friends.
- [Stella Maynard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/stella_maynard.md): A college friend of Anne's who later marries and moves away.
- [Dora Keith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/dora_keith.md): Davy's quiet, well-behaved twin sister who lives at Green Gables.
- [Jonas Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/jonas_blake.md): A serious theology student who falls in love with and marries Philippa Gordon.
- [Rusty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/rusty.md): A stray orange cat adopted by Anne and her friends at Patty's Place.
- [Aunt Atossa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/aunt_atossa.md): Marilla's cranky, critical aunt who visits Green Gables.
- [Billy Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/billy_andrews.md): A dull-witted Avonlea boy who once proposed to Anne.
- [Mr. Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/mr_harrison.md): Anne's irritable neighbor in Avonlea who keeps a parrot.
- [Paul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/paul.md): A lonely little boy Anne meets who lives in a world of imagination.
- [Charlie Sloane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/charlie_sloane.md): An Avonlea boy who carries a torch for Anne and later marries someone else.
- [Mrs. Douglas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/mrs_douglas.md): John Douglas's talkative, domineering mother.
- [Joe Mosey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/joe_mosey.md): An old Avonlea man known for his tall tales and eccentricities.
- [Mrs. Samson Coates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/mrs_samson_coates.md): A woman from Spencervale mentioned in local gossip.
- [Miss Lavendar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/miss_lavendar.md): A gentle, whimsical old maid who lives in the past.
- [Alec Ward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_the_island_se/characters/alec_ward.md): A young man who courts Philippa Gordon briefly.

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