Literary Influences: Anne Shirley

Samantha Ellis and I share an affinity for Anne Shirley of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. This precocious, spunky orphan taught me about love, drama and independence in ways I hadn’t considered until now. The most striking thing about …

“How to Be a Heroine” by Samantha Ellis

I’ve been reading Samantha Ellis’s enchanting memoir How to Be a Heroine: Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much. Ellis devotes a chapter to each of the literary ladies ranging from Anne Shirley to Lizzy Bennett to Scheherazade who …