Marilla
Proper noun
Meaning
Marilla
A female given name from Hebrew.
Anagrams
Examples
All of the characters — Anne, Diana, Gilbert, Marilla — have taught me so much about myself.
Characters Diana and Anne Green Gables household: * Anne Shirley : An imaginative, talkative, red-headed orphan who comes to live with Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert.
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Because Marilla has primary responsibility for rearing the girl, he has no qualms about "spoiling" her and indulging her in pretty clothes and other frivolities.
Out of devotion to Marilla and Green Gables, Anne gives up the scholarship to stay at home and help Marilla, whose eyesight is failing.
In an act of friendship, Gilbert Blythe gives up his teaching position at the Avonlea School to work at White Sands School instead, knowing that Anne wants to stay close to Marilla after Matthew's death.