Trix Taylor

Trix Taylor was the daughter of Cyrus and Mrs. Taylor, sister of Esme and Pringle, wife of Johnny and also one of Anne Shirley's friends.

Early life
Trix was born in 1868 in Summerside to Cyrus Taylor and his wife, Mrs. Taylor. Six years later, her younger brother Pringle was born.

She went to Summerside High School and was in Katherine Brooke's class.

Engagment of Esme and Lennox Carter
In February 1888 she visited Windy Poplars and told Anne about her troubles with her father. Dr. Lennox Carter fell in love with Trix's sister, Esme, and was invited for supper in Taylors' house. She was afraid that her father had one of his spells on. She invited Anne for a supper and hoped for her help.

Anne came the next day to Trix's house. Cyrus was in a dreadful humor, because Hugh Pringle beat him at a game of checkers that afternoon. Dr. Lennox Carter came, but they all were silent. Then Anne ot a great idea. She told Lennoy that Cyrus Taylor went deaf very suddenly last week.

"Such an affliction for poor papa. And him only sixty-eight."

- Trix to Lennox Carter.

Then Trix and Pringle asked Lennox what he thought about man who refused to let his wife have a dog, gave his wife a pair of goloshes for a Christmas present or believed the earth was flat. He thought they were talking about their father. When Mrs. Taylor accused him of chochet, he exploded and apologized. Esme and Dr. Carter were engaged.

Physical appearance
"She was a jolly, plump little creature, with twinkling brown eyes and rosy cheeks, and did not look as if life weighed too heavily on her twenty years."

- Anne of Windy Poplars, Chapter 9

Appearance

 * Anne of Windy Poplars (first appearance)