It’s been a sad week for literary ladies of a certain generation: Gilbert Blythe has died. OK, not the actual (by which I mean fictional) Gilbert – he is still romping through the pages of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables, teasing and adoring the red-haired orphan, Anne Shirley. But the image so many women of my generation have of Gilbert is no more: the actor Jonathan Crombie, who played him in the timeless 1985 Canadian TV adaptation of the novels, died of a brain haemorrhage last week at the heartbreakingly young age of 48. Crombie was Colin Firth-as-Mr Darcy for 14-year-old girls, and we former 14-year-olds have not been coping well.
Source: theguardian.com
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