Rainbow Valley (Dramatic Reading)

Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a widowed, absent-minded minister. Whether they're hiding a runaway home girl and plotting to save her from the orphanage or organizing a day of fasting to punish themselves for singing an awful song in the graveyard, their adventures and misadventures make this seventh Anne novel a different, but still delightful, story.

By : Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)

00 - Dramatis Personae



01 - Chapter 1: Home Again



02 - Chapter 2: Sheer Gossip



03 - Chapter 3: The Ingleside Children



04 - Chapter 4: The Manse Children



05 - Chapter 5: The Advent of Mary Vance



06 - Chapter 6: Mary Stays at the Manse



07 - Chapter 7: A Fishy Episode



08 - Chapter 8: Miss Cornelia Intervenes



09 - Chapter 9: Una Intervenes



10 - Chapter 10: The Manse Girls Clean House



11 - Chapter 11: A Dreadful Discovery



12 - Chapter 12: An Explanation and a Dare



13 - Chapter 13: The House on the Hill



14 - Chapter 14: Mrs. Alec Davis Makes a Call



15 - Chapter 15: More Gossip



16 - Chapter 16: Tit for Tat



17 - Chapter 17: A Double Victory



18 - Chapter 18: Mary Brings Evil Tidings



19 - Chapter 19: Poor Adam!



20 - Chapter 20: Faith Makes a Friend



21 - Chapter 21: The Impossible Word



22 - Chapter 22: St. George Knows All About It



23 - Chapter 23: The Good-Conduct Club



24 - Chapter 24: A Charitable Impulse



25 - Chapter 25: Another Scandal and Another ''Explanation''



26 - Chapter 26: Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View



27 - Chapter 27: A Sacred Concert



28 - Chapter 28: A Fast Day



29 - Chapter 29: A Weird Tale



30 - Chapter 30: The Ghost on the Dyke



31 - Chapter 31: Carl Does Penance



32 - Chapter 32: Two Stubborn People



33 - Chapter 33: Carl is—Not—Whipped



34 - Chapter 34: Una Visits the Hill



35 - Chapter 35: ''Let the Piper Come''


Anne Shirley has now been married to Gilbert Blythe for 15 years, and the couple have six children: Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla.

After a trip to London, Anne returns to the news that a new minister has arrived in Glen St. Mary. John Meredith is a widower with four young children: Gerald (Jerry), Faith, Una, and Thomas Carlyle (Carl). The children have not been properly brought up since the death of their mother, with only their father (who is easily absorbed by matters of theology) to parent them. The children are considered wild and mischievous by many of the families in the village (who tend only to hear about the Meredith children when they have gotten into some kind of scrape), causing them to question Mr. Meredith's parenting skills and his suitability as a minister.

For most of the book, only the Blythes know of the Meredith children's loyalty and kindness. They rescue an orphaned girl, Mary Vance, from starvation, and Una finds a home for her with Mrs. Marshall Elliott. When the children get into trouble, Faith sometimes tries to explain their behavior to the townsfolk, which generally causes an even bigger scandal.

The Merediths, Blythes, and Mary Vance often play in a hollow called Rainbow Valley, which becomes a gathering place for the children in the book. Jem Blythe tries to help the Merediths behave better by forming the "Good-Conduct Club," in which the Merediths punish themselves for misdeeds. Their self-imposed punishments lead to Carl becoming very ill with pneumonia after spending hours in a graveyard on a wet night, and to Una fainting in church after fasting all day. When this happens, John Meredith is wracked with guilt over his failings as a father.

Mr. Meredith realizes that he should marry again and give the children a mother, though he has always thought he will never love anyone again as he did his late wife. He is surprised to find that he has fallen in love with Rosemary West, a woman in her late thirties who lives with her sister Ellen, who is ten years older. John proposes marriage to Rosemary, but Ellen forbids Rosemary from accepting, as years earlier they had promised each other never to leave the other following the deaths of their parents. However, Ellen eventually reunites with her childhood beau, Norman Douglas, who asks Rosemary to release Ellen from her promise so she can marry Norman. Rosemary agrees, but now thinks that John Meredith hates her.

Una overhears her father expressing feelings for Rosemary and goes to ask Rosemary to marry her father despite her misgivings about stepmothers, who Mary Vance has told her are always mean. Rosemary sets her mind at ease and agrees to speak to John Meredith again. They become engaged, and Rosemary and Ellen plan a double wedding in the fall.

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