• Joyce Blythe •

Birth Name: Joyce 'Joy' Blythe

Date of Birth: Early June, 1891

Date of Death: Early June, 1891

Birth Location: Glen St. Mary, Four Winds, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Parents: Gilbert and Anne Blythe

Siblings: James Matthew 'Jem', Anne 'Nan', Diana 'Di', Walter Cuthbert, Shirley, Bertha Marilla 'Rilla'

Location: Four Winds (House of Dreams)

In Books: Anne's House of Dreams (1917), Anne of Ingleside (1939), Rilla of Ingleside (1920)

Quote: "Little Joyce," she murmured, when Marilla came in to see the baby. "We planned to call her that if she were a girlie. There were so many we would have liked to name her for; we couldn't choose between them, so we decided on Joyce--we can call her Joy for short--Joy--it suits so well. Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality." (Chapter 19, Anne's House of Dreams)

"Anne did not say anything more just then, either. She was thinking of little Joyce's grave in the old burying-ground over-harbour--little Joyce who would have been a woman now, had she lived..." (Chapter 25, Rilla of Ingleside)

Background: Joyce 'Joy' Blythe was the first child of Gilbert and Anne Blythe, and the first of two children to be born at Four Winds (the other being Jem). She sadly passed away shortly after her birth, but her brief presence on Earth was never forgotten by her parents, or the people who met her during that short time.

Last updated: March 17, 2006
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