Reception and Legacy
Lennie Goodings, a publisher for Virago Press, chose Anne as her favourite fictional characters, stating, "The feisty, funny and above all unabashedly passionate Anne of Green Gables... faces the world with absolutely nothing but the sheer force of her personality. I love her."
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Famous quotes containing the words reception and/or legacy:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)