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Lucy Maud Montgomery stored her now-famous book Anne of Green Gables in a hat box after it was rejected by every publisher she sent it to. Years later she tried again, and the book has now sold 50 million copies.

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Canadian written, Anne of Green Gables, has been in Japan's school curriculum since 1952 and every year, many Japanese tourists travel to the province of Prince Edward Island, to visit the Green Gable farmhouse.

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1. There is a school in Japan called The Anne Academy, inspired by Anne of Green Gables, that teaches students to speak English with a Canadian (Prince Edward Island) accent

2. Lucy Maud Montgomery's first book Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908. She wrote and published several more titles in this series including Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne's House of Dreams (1917), Anne of Ingleside (1939), Rainbow Valley (1919), and Rilla of Ingleside (1921).

3. Anne of Green Gables has sold more than 50 million copies around the world, and has been translated into 20 different languages. It is also used for teaching purposes all over the world.

4. Anne of Green Gables was so popular that it was made into several TV movies, film, TV series, and animated series, plays, and musicals.

5. Aretha Franklin loved 'Anne of Green Gables' and considered her a kindred spirit

6. Anne of Green Gables" character Anne Shirley was an 11 year old orphan sent to a couple by mistake who wanted to adopt a boy to work on their P.E.I. farm. The series focuses on Anne's life as she adapts to her new home, and as she grows up.

7. Canada's PEI, and in particular Anne of Green Gables, is very popular in Japan, due to it being converted into a Japanese Anime by famous director Hayao Mayazaki

8. Thousands of Japanese tourists visit Prince Edward Island, Canada every summer due to the popularity of Anne of Green Gables

9. Anne of Green Gables was made into an anime

10. Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of "Anne of Green Gables", had an unhappy marriage to an abusive and mentally ill husband, suffered from severe depression, and her 1942 death may have been suicide to avoid seeing a second World War

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Aretha Franklin loved 'Anne of Green Gables' and considered Anne a kindred spirit