Rainbow Valley

January 2025

Welcome to January, Kindred Spirits!

Rainbow Valley is the seventh book in the Anne series and was published twenty years before Anne of Ingleside. According to Anne’s House of Dreams by Liz Rosenburg, the years 1918 and 1919 were “arguably two of the worst in Maud’s life.” Two notable events that happened were the death of her beloved cousin, Frede, from the Spanish flu, and the suffering of a nervous breakdown by her husband, Ewan.

But as with her other books, I believe that writing was an escape for Maud.

“…despite all the recent sorrow, Maud finished her ninth novel, Rainbow Valley—an effervescent, dreamy book about Anne’s children and their group of young friends. It was, as Robert Frost once wrote of great poetry, “a momentary stay against confusion.”

~Anne’s House of Dreams, Chapter 18

Let me know if you will be joining me this month for a romp through Rainbow Valley!

With delight,

Stephanie