Photo reblogged from Sleep, perchance to dream. with 371 notes
Evelyn Nesbit by Rudolf Eickerman, September 1903
The model that L.M. Montgomery used for Anne’s face was this photograph of Evelyn Nesbit, which she came upon in The Metropolitan Magazine. Montgomery clipped it out and hung it in her “den” — the bedroom where she wrote Anne of Green Gables.
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