Notes:Further Chronicles of Avonlea/Cultural references and allusions

"That was a Jonah day for us all through. Everything had gone wrong."

This quote is a reference to Jonah, a prophet of Israel, who, in attempting to avoid his holy mission, travelled in the opposite direction to the city of Nineveh. This act enraged God who caused a storm at sea, which resulted in Jonah being thrown overboard of his boat and swallowed by a whale.

"Huldah Jane is as good an old creature as ever lived, when she has the "realagy" other people who are in the house want to get out of it and, if they can't, feel about as comfortable as St. Lawrence on his gridiron."

Lawrence of Rome was canonized as a saint after being burnt alive on a gridiron on the orders of Emperor Valerian in 258.

"Very sweet girl," said Max. "You know I always admired those gray-eyed girls with that splendid Titian hair."

This is a reference to the works of Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as "Titian", a leading Italian Renaissance painter of the sixteenth century.