Notes:Chronicles of Avonlea/Cultural references and allusions

"The unsung beauty hid life’s common things below"

- Chronicles of Avonlea – Epigraph

This quote is taken from Songs of Labor by John Greenleaf Whittier.

"Do I sleep, do I dream, do I wonder and doubt? Is things what they seem, or is visions about?"

This is a quote from a poem called "Further Language from Truthful James" by Bret Harte. Note that the wording has been changed slightly: in the original, the line is "Are things what they seem", whereas in Chronicles of Avonlea it is rendered as "Is things what they seem".