Teenagers writing Mary-Sue's since 1925
So, I'm sitting there reading Anne of Green Gables at lunch, when I came across this paragraph where Anne is describing her story to Diana, and I just about choked on my lentil soup...
"I wrote it last Monday evening. It's called 'The Jealous Rival: or, In Death not Divided.' I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense. Then I read it to Matthew and and he said it was fine. That is the kind of critic I like. It's about two beautiful maidens called Cordelia Montmorency and Geraldine Seymour who lived in the same village and were devotedly attached to each other. Cordelia was a real brunette with a coronet of of midnight hair and duskly flashing eyes. Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes."
"I never saw anyone with purple eyes," said Diana dubiously.
"Neither did I. I just imagined them. I wanted something out of the common. Geraldine had an alabaster brow, too. I've found out what an alabaster brow is. That is one of the advantages of being thirteen.You know so much more than you did when you were twelve."
I love how she ignores the constructive criticism too. Anne would have had a blog if she were alive today. She'd probably be a BNF and all her fans would worship her greatness.
"I wrote it last Monday evening. It's called 'The Jealous Rival: or, In Death not Divided.' I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense. Then I read it to Matthew and and he said it was fine. That is the kind of critic I like. It's about two beautiful maidens called Cordelia Montmorency and Geraldine Seymour who lived in the same village and were devotedly attached to each other. Cordelia was a real brunette with a coronet of of midnight hair and duskly flashing eyes. Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes."
"I never saw anyone with purple eyes," said Diana dubiously.
"Neither did I. I just imagined them. I wanted something out of the common. Geraldine had an alabaster brow, too. I've found out what an alabaster brow is. That is one of the advantages of being thirteen.You know so much more than you did when you were twelve."
I love how she ignores the constructive criticism too. Anne would have had a blog if she were alive today. She'd probably be a BNF and all her fans would worship her greatness.