Rilla of Ingleside: Realism & Romance

Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery follows the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe, the youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert Blythe, as she navigates the trials of young adulthood during the turmoil of World War I. While collecting donations for the war effort, she comes across a house where a young mother has just died with her husband away at war, leaving no one to care for her two-week-old son. Rilla takes the sickly little boy back to Ingleside in a soup tureen, naming him "James Kitchener Anderson" after his father. In this chapter, “Realism and Romance,” Rilla’s sweetheart, Kenneth Ford, comes to Ingleside to say goodbye to Rilla, as he’s about to leave for the front. But the visit is full of unexpected challenges…