Anne and Gilbert have seven children: Joyce ( or " Joy ") ( who dies very soon after her birth ), James Matthew (" Jem "), Walter Cuthbert, Diana (" Di "), Diana's twin Anne (" Nan "), Shirley ( the youngest son ), and Bertha Marilla (" Rilla ").

Other books in the Anne series include Rainbow Valley ( 1919 ), which focuses on Anne's children during their childhood, and Rilla of Ingleside ( 1921 ), which focuses on Anne's youngest daughter during World War I.

This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla " Rilla " Blythe.

Set almost a decade after Rainbow Valley, Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne's youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult party and blissfully unaware of the chaos that the Western world is about to enter.

Montgomery had written an Anne novel set in that same period, Rilla of Ingleside, a story focusing on Anne's youngest daughter, and in which Anne was a mother whose three sons were fighting in Europe.

Bertha Marilla " Rilla " Blythe: The youngest of the Ingleside children, Rilla is named after Anne's birth mother and adoptive " mother ", Marilla.

Their married life is very happy and they have seven children: Joyce ( also called Joy ; died as an infant ), James Matthew ( Jem ), Walter Cuthbert ( who dies during the First World War ), Anne and Diana ( twins ; also called Nan and Di ), Shirley ( the youngest boy ), and Bertha Marilla ( called Rilla ).

Rilla takes the sickly little boy back to Ingleside in a soup tureen, naming him " James Kitchener Anderson " after his father and Herbert Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War.

Rilla feels that Walter finally regards her as a chum, not just as his little sister.

In Walter's last letter to Rilla, written the day before his death, he tells her that he is no longer afraid and believes it may be better for him to die than to go on living with his memories of war forever spoiling life's beauty.

Anne Shirley has now been married to Gilbert Blythe for 15 years, and the couple have six children: Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla.

( In an aside, it is revealed that Marilla has died ; her date of death is not specified but Rilla states it was before she was old enough to know her very well.

Jims ' father returns with a young English bride and takes Jims to live with them nearby ; Rilla is glad she can still remain part of Jims ' life.

The third Anne film was a completely original concept that brought Anne and the other Avonlea characters ( from both the Road to Avonlea television series and the previous two Anne of Green Gables films ) into a time period when each character was faced with personal turmoil as a result of World War I. Sullivan ’ s portrayal of Anne and Gilbert in this third film does not coincide chronologically with Montgomery ’ s novels ; Rilla of Ingleside portrays Anne's sons going off to fight in World War I while Anne and husband Gilbert witness the War from the home-front of Prince Edward Island.

* Walter Blythe ( son of Anne and Gilbert Blythe in the latter Anne of Green Gables books ) was in recovery from typhoid in " Rilla of Ingleside " and this is seen as the reason why he does not enlist at the onset of WWI.

Rilla of Ingleside ( 1921 ) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight " Anne " novels she wrote.

Rilla of Ingleside is the only Canadian novel written from a woman's perspective about the First World War by a contemporary.

Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.

Once the Continent descends into war, Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith promptly enlist, upsetting Anne, Nan, and Faith Meredith ( who Rilla suspects is engaged to Jem ).

He confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward.

Rilla's siblings Nan, Di, and Walter return to Redmond College, and Shirley returns to Queen's Academy, leaving Rilla anxiously alone at home with her parents, their spinster housekeeper Susan Baker, and Gertrude Oliver, a teacher who is boarding with the Blythes while her fiance reports to the front.

Uka Uka is the main antagonist: Dr. Neo Cortex, Nitrus Brio, Koala Kong and Rilla Roo in Cortex's side.

She is also called Roly-Poly, or, generally, ' Rilla '.

" This refers to World War I, which is the main theme of the next and final book in the series, Rilla of Ingleside.

Rilla is very proud, hates to be teased or to be classed with lower people.

Later in her life, the lisp only comes back when Rilla is nervous.

Rilla seems the only of Mrs Doctor Blythe's flock that isn't ambitious, and her only intention is to have a good time.

* In Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery, a letter from Jem Blythe to the Blythe Family talks about a cootie hunt in the trenches during World War I.

A new, restored and annotated edition of Rilla of Ingleside, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre ( editor of Montgomery's The Blythes Are Quoted ) and Andrea McKenzie, was published by Viking Canada in October 2010.

Rilla, in her teens, regrets being called by her silly childhood nicknames-Rilla or Spider-instead of her respectable and " dignified " first name, Bertha.

Rilla and her family pay anxious attention to all the war news as the conflict spreads and thousands die.

* L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside

As the war drags on, Rilla matures, organizing the Junior Red Cross in her village.

Rilla grows much closer to Walter, who some townsfolk and fellow students have branded a slacker, an insult he feels deeply.

Rilla gives the letter to Una Meredith, who Rilla suspects had been in love with Walter, though she had never spoken of it to either of them.

" -- to which Rilla lisps, " Yeth ," a rare slip into her childhood habit.

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