Katherine Brooke

Katherine Brooke was one of three teachers at Summerside High School during Anne Shirley's principalship (1887-1890) and later Anne's good friend.

Early life
Katherine was born to Mr. and Mrs. Brooke in 1859 somewhere on Prince Edward Island. She had unhappy childhood. Her parents hated her and each other.

"But not what it is like to know that your father and mother don't want you. Mine didn't. They hated me from the moment I was born... and before... and they hated each other."

- Katherine Brooke about her parents to Anne Shirley.

In 1866, when she was 7, her parents died. Katherine went to live with uncle Henry's family, but they didn't want her either. She had to wear her cousins' castoff clothes.

Studies at Queen's
Uncle Henry agreed to put her through Queen's Academy if she would pay him back when she got a school. He paid Katherine's board in a miserable third-rate boarding-house where she had a room over the kitchen that was ice cold in winter and boiling hot in summer. She got a license and the second room in Summerside High.

Appearance

 * Anne of Windy Poplars (first appearance)