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Anne with an E

TV SERIES · 2017–2019 · CANADA

Anne with an E

Created by
Moira Walley-Beckett
Network
CBC Television
Seasons
3
Episodes
27
Studio
Northwood Entertainment, Northwood Pictures

9 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their…

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  1. #001

    Every episode title in the first season is a quotation from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel 'Jane Eyre'. The episode titles of the second season are taken from quotations in George Eliot's 1871 novel "Middlemarch". Similarly, each episode title of the third season is a quotation from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein".

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    Despite its success and strong ratings, the series was cancelled after Season 3 due to a split between Netflix and CBC. Since its cancellation, fans launched a Twitter campaign to persuade Netflix to renew it, using the #RenewAnnewithanE hashtag more than a million times. The producers tried to develop a fourth season with another channel or make a film to complete the story, but unfortunately they were unable to do so.

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  3. #003

    Canadian fans criticized the US promotional poster featuring a retouched version of Amybeth McNulty. The image had brighter eyes and teeth, fewer freckles, slightly altered hair, and the shadows under her eyes removed. Caitlin Cronenberg, the photographer who captured the original portrait, expressed her surprise on Facebook, saying, "As the person who took this photo, I was quite surprised to see this. Doing anything to the magnificent and captivating Amybeth is completely unnecessary."

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  4. #004

    Executive producer Miranda de Pencier played Josie Pye in the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables (1985) and its sequels.

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  5. #005

    When the character Bash reads the obituary in the newspaper, the date implies that Season 3 takes place in 1899, meaning Season 1 began in 1896.

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  6. #006

    When asked her age, Anne says she is 13. At the beginning of the book she was 11. The actress who plays Anne (Amybeth McNulty), however, was 15.

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  7. #007

    Anne chooses Rosamond Montmorency as her alias.

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  8. #008

    Five episodes of the first season are directed by women and two by men.

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  9. #009

    Anne names the Cuthberts' horses Belle, Bertie and Butterscotch.

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