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Maier, Sarah E. "Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi." A Vindication of the Redhead. The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts. Eds. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier. New York [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 197–221. Added by: joachim (2/20/22, 3:52 PM) Last edited by: joachim (2/20/22, 3:53 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83515-6_9 BibTeX citation key: Maier2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Little Orphan Annie", Comic strip, Gray. Harold, Literature, USA Creators: Ayres, Maier Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.]) Collection: A Vindication of the Redhead. The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts |
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This chapter examines the red-headed orphans that abound in children’s literature across the Western world, from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908), Little Orphan Annie comics (1924), Madeline (1939) to Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking (1945). This chapter considers these girl-children who have been ostracized for their dual differences as gingers and as orphans. Life’s difficulties are brought into focus through perceptions on how such prejudices and stigmatization is reflected in the literature about these characters but also explores how their characters become even stronger in the face of such unfair adversity.
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