![]() ![]() In time, Myrtle married Ernest Webb at the Macneill house and, in time, the Webbs took over the farm. ![]() ![]() In the mid-1890s, a young relative, Myrtle Macneill, moved in with Margaret and David, and became good friends with her cousin Maud. Of the Macneill house and fields, not at all (with the exception of her "dear den" bedroom). It was this part of the Macneill farm that enchanted the future author: as a young woman, she wrote rapturously about Lover’s Lane in her journal any number of times. Maud lived a few farms over and would cut through the Cavendish schoolyard and the neighbouring woods to arrive at “Lover’s Lane,” a forested path winding down the back of the Macneill property. While Montgomery was growing up, it was owned by her elderly relations, siblings Margaret and David Macneill. Before it was Green Gables, this was a typical Prince Edward Island farm property: a long, thin parcel of 100-plus acres, stretching to the shore, with a solid but unspectacular 19th-century two-storey farmhouse at its centre. ![]()
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