Anne of Ingleside characters

Appears from the start

Mistress of Ingleside, the big house at Glen St. Mary, and the mother of a growing family. She is in her thirties, busy with a country doctor's household, and still the woman who names places and takes an interest in everyone's affairs, though her days now belong to her children. The book opens with a short visit back to Avonlea, and returns her to a house where she is needed at every hour.

First appears in chapter 2

The doctor at Glen St. Mary, with a large country practice that keeps him out at all hours and absorbed in difficult cases. Devoted to Anne and to his children, he is not always quick to notice what is going on in his own house.

First appears in chapter 2

The Blythes' housekeeper and the real power in the Ingleside kitchen, fiercely loyal to the family, sharp-tongued about outsiders, and convinced that no children anywhere are the equals of these. She keeps a private opinion of everyone in the Glen and shares most of them.

First appears in chapter 2

The eldest Blythe child, a sturdy, adventurous boy full of plans and enthusiasms, devoted to his dog and to whatever scheme is in hand, and the ringleader of the younger ones.

First appears in chapter 2

The second Blythe son, a beautiful, dreamy boy who loves words and makes poems in his head. He feels everything more sharply than his brothers and sisters, is frightened by ugliness and cruelty, and is teased for it by children who do not understand him.

First appears in chapter 2

One of the Blythe twins, a serious, imaginative girl with brown eyes who takes her own daydreams very seriously and can persuade herself of almost anything.

First appears in chapter 2

Nan's twin, red-haired like her mother and more headstrong, given to violent friendships with unsuitable girls and to defending them past all reason.

First appears in chapter 2

The quiet Blythe son, brown-haired and self-contained, Susan's particular favourite since she nursed him through a difficult infancy, and the child who gives the least trouble.

Also known as Rilla

First appears in chapter 7

The youngest Blythe, a baby daughter born at Ingleside and named for Anne's own mother and for Marilla Cuthbert. She grows through the book from an infant into a small, vain, lisping girl who takes everything to heart.

First appears in chapter 12

An elderly aunt of Gilbert's who arrives at Ingleside for a short visit. Mournful, faultfinding, and impossible to please, she disapproves of the children's upbringing, the household's meals, and Anne's management, and delivers her judgements with an air of wounded duty.

First appears in chapter 2

Formerly Miss Cornelia Bryant of Four Winds, now married and living at the Glen, still the sharpest tongue and the kindest hand in the district, and still ready to explain to Anne exactly what is wrong with everybody.

Appears from the start

The mistress of Green Gables, very old now, whom Anne visits in Avonlea at the opening of the book, and who is still the fixed point of Anne's childhood.

Appears from the start

Anne's bosom friend of childhood, now Mrs. Fred Wright and the mother of a family of her own, with whom Anne spends a few days of remembering at the opening of the book.

First appears in chapter 33

A schoolfellow of Di Blythe's from a poor and disorderly family, a fluent and inventive liar who dazzles Di with impossible accounts of her relations and her home.

First appears in chapter 33

Another of Di Blythe's brief and unsuitable friendships, a girl who wins Di's sympathy with a tale of being ill-used at home and enjoys the attention it brings her.

First appears in chapter 38

A woman Gilbert knew at college, now handsome, prosperous, and rather self-satisfied, who reappears in the Blythes' social circle and unsettles Anne more than she likes to admit.