Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily of New Moon is the very first book in a series of novels concerning a Canadian orphan girl raising in Prince Edward Island. Anne of Green Gables series is authored by Montgomery. Initially published in 1923.

The Emily novels, much like the well known and earlier Anne of Green Gables series, portrayed life from the viewpoint associated with a young orphan girl called Emily Byrd Starr, who is raised by her relatives following the death of her father to tuberculosis. Montgomery saw Emily as a character more like her personality than Anne, and some of what happens in the Emily series had been even experienced by Montgomery. Emily is referred to as having black hair and purply violet eyes, elves in ears, pale skin, and an enchanting and distinctive "slow" laugh.

Emily Starr is sent to reside at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray as well as her Cousin Jimmy.[1] She becomes friends with Perry Miller, Teddy Kent, and Ilse Burnley, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon since he came into this world in' Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.