An Exam, a Letter, and Mayflower Regrets (150–59) Marilla and Rachel Go to Nova Scotia (77–84) Now Marilla must face a reckoning between her dreams of making a difference in the wider world and the small-town reality of life at Green Gables. Instead she is caught up in the dangerous work of politics and abolition-jeopardizing all she cherishes. Her budding romance with John Blythe, the charming son of a neighbor, offers her a possibility of future happiness-but Marilla is in no rush to trade one farm life for another. With her friend Rachel, she joins the Ladies’ Aid Society in helping an orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity in nearby Nova Scotia-a home for abandoned children that secretly serves as a way station for runaway slaves from America. An opinionated spinster, Aunt Izzy is a talented seamstress, which has allowed her to build a thriving business and make her own way in the world.Įmboldened by her aunt, Marilla dares to venture beyond the safety of Green Gables.

Marilla’s one connection to the wider world is Aunt Elizabeth “Izzy” Johnson, her mother’s sister, who fled Avonlea for the bustling city of St. In Avonlea, life holds few options for farm girls. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down, leaving her to bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with her brother, Matthew, and father, Hugh. From the Dust JacketĪ bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . A second paperback edition appeared in October 2019.Ī French-language translation by Anath Riveline was published by Michel Lafon as Le bruissement du papier et des désirs in April 2019. The book was published as a jacketed hardcover and as a trade paperback by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, in October 2018. Marilla of Green Gables is a historical novel by Sarah McCoy that reimagines the adolescent years of Marilla Cuthbert, who appears as an older woman in Anne of Green Gables and many of its sequels.

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Marilla of green gables by sarah mccoy