History Literature / EmilyOfNewMoon

* DisabledSnarker: Dean Priest. He has a crooked back and it's mentioned he can't walk very fast. He's got a cynical point of view (being ostracized on account of one's disability will do that to a person).

* HandicappedBadAss: Dean Priest. Comes close to EvilCripple territory when he tells Emily her first novel is trash because he is jealous she cares so much about her writing - overall subverted though, as he gets ''much'' better.

%%* DaddysGirl: Emily. Which makes the resulting events of the first book that much more tragic.

%%* DisabledSnarker: Dean Priest.

A trilogy of young-adult novels by Creator/LMMontgomery, her most popular books after the much more famous ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series. These are also among the most autobiographical of her works.

* LastMinuteHookup: Emily and Teddy in literally the last handful of pages of the entire trilogy. Presumably, they live HappilyEverAfter - much to the '''eternal anger and disgust of Dean/Emily fans'''.
** ''Even Teddy/Emily fans'' dislike how vaguely and (very, very) late Emily and Teddy came together with no description and with Teddy lacking major character development.

* {{Nephewism}}: Rather, Nieceism.

** Aunt Elizabeth isn't too happy when Emily stays unmarried at 24...

* RaisedByGrandparents: Or, at least, much-older aunts and uncles.

* SadistTeacher: Ms Brownell. Oh, Ms Brownell.

* BrutalHonesty: Mr. Carpenter is unsparing when it comes to critiquing Emily's work. The trope is subverted with Dean when he savages Emily's first novel not because he actually thinks it's bad as because he resents anything that takes her attention from him - he apologizes for this later.

** This is what eventually happens to [[spoiler: Dean and Emily]] much to the ''eternal horror'' of shippers, who find it both highly unrealistic and tragic.

* MayDecemberRomance: Dr. Burnley and his wife, which serves for most of people to further assume that she had left him for her young, charismatic cousin.

* MyBelovedSmother: Teddy Kent's mother is scarily possessive.

* MayDecemberRomance: Dr. Burnley and his wife, which serves for most of people to further assume that she had left him for her young, charismatic cousin. Also Dean and Emily, on which Dean partly blames the ultimate failure of their relationship, though Emily insists it isn't that.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Emily and Rhoda early on, until Rhoda turns out to be a FalseFriend. Later, when Emily befriends Ilse, she is mostly cured from romanticism like that, but the two remain extremely close.

* MoodRingEyes: Emily's eyes sometimes, appear black due to pupil dilation from strong emotions.

* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Aunt Elizabeth, very gradually. It helps that she and Emily are NotSoDifferent in their deep feeling and stubborn pride.

* NotSoDifferent: Emily and Aunt Elizabeth share much more similarities than they would care to admit: both are ''very'' [[{{Pride}} proud]] [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Aloof Dark-Haired Girls]] who can act strict and intimidating -- in fact every time Emily does so, someone compares her to Aunt Elizabeth. They are also both fairly stubborn and tend to resent it in each other when faced with the other one's stubbornness in times of disagreement.

* FamousLastWords: Mr. Carpenter's give something of a start to his housekeeper: [[spoiler: "Beware... of... italics!"]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Emily considers her imprecise and very rare psychic manifestations as awful, never-to-be-spoken-of incidents, when these powers only ever are shown as helping people. However, [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] when one considers ValuesDissonance -- psychic powers were classified under "insanity" in the Victorian era.

* TheCynic: Several examples, but Dean Priest in particular. The discrimination he has experienced because of his deformed back and leg partially accounts for this.
* CynicalMentor: Mr. Carpenter becomes this for Emily after she graduates from school. Dean Priest plays this role sometimes too.
* DaddysGirl: Emily. Which makes the resulting events of the first book that much more tragic.
* DeadpanSnarker: Great Aunt Nancy, Mr. Carpenter, and Emily, when she grows up. For a priest, Father Cassidy has his share of it, too.

* {{Determinator}}: Nobody is as stubborn as Perry.
* DisabledSnarker: Dean Priest.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Teddy Kent often comes across this way, being very poorly developed and extremely underwritten and vague. Many readers find him less interesting and developed than Emily's other admirers, the cynical, shrewd Dean Priest and determined, cheerful Perry Miller.

* PurpleEyes: Emily's [[KaleidoscopeEyes shift between looking]] purple and grey and, sometimes, black.

* GreenEyes: The Priest clan is known for their striking, vivid and sometimes uncanny green eyes. Dean's got quite the pair himself.

* ByronicHero: Dean Priest, one of the best examples of this character type.

* SinsOfOurFathers: So, so deeply ingrained in the society of the books. Saying these people hold grudges is putting it mildly. Ilse, especially, suffers from it in the first book, thanks to what everyone thinks her mother did when she was a baby.

* EmbarrassingNickName: Dean is widely known as Jarback Priest on account of his disability. One reason why he respects the memory of Emily's father so much is that he never called him this. And [[CrowningMomentofAwesome neither does Emily]].

** CrazyJealousGuy: Dean Priest, engaging in {{Manipulative Bastard}}ry. Over a ''book''. He gets better though and loses the jealous streak.

** Also between Emily and Dean, [[UpToEleven SO MUCH]].

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Emily's shift between looking {{purple|eyes}} with grey, or sometimes, black.

* BadAssGrandma: Great Aunt Nancy plays this role. She will put visitors in a guestroom with swallows within the walls to make them think the room is haunted.

* GenreSavvy: As relates to an in-universe work, Father Cassidy. He hears Emily's synopsis of her poem "The Child of the Sea" and makes numerous asides about all the [[TropesAreTools tropes]] that she's using.

* BrokenBase: '''ABSOLUTELY'''. The third book, ''Emily's Quest'' - and how! First, there are the fans ([[FanPreferredCouple a big chunk as well]]) who ''cannot stand'' that [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Teddy/Emily]] is official and [[MayDecemberRomance Dean/Emily]] is not. Second, there are the Teddy/Emily fans who ''hate'' how little screen time Teddy gets as well as how there is hardly any Teddy/Emily interaction, while there is a much larger focus on Dean/Emily and Dean in general. Then there are those Teddy/Emily fans who dislike how only in the final two or so pages, their ship [[LastMinuteHookup finally happens]] as well as Teddy hardly appearing in the book and getting very limited (if ''any'') [[FlatCharacter character development]] or screen time. And [[UpToEleven then]], there are those fans who wanted much more of a focus on Emily and her writing career rather than all the romantic shenanigans - these fans also tend to want Emily to remain single.
** Not to mention the fans who complain of "character decay" in terms of Ilse's character, who appears very shallow and flippant in the third book (though the signs were there since the second installment). Or the fans who hate Dean's infamous scene with Emily's manuscript. Or Emily herself, especially concerning [[{{Shipping}} certain fans]] at least, her cruel breaking off of hers and Dean's engagement and the permanent breaking of Dean's heart. Or the fact that pretty much ''nothing'' is known about Teddy or his actual personality.
** And finally, there are those who complain that the writing in the third book is too vague, lacking in description and poorly written with far too much focus on melodrama, brooding and depression. Whew!

* SpiritedYoungLady: Emily is (reserved) one; Ilse is too much of a tomboy to count.

** Not to mention the fans who complain of "character decay" in terms of Ilse's character, who appears very shallow and flippant in the third book (though the signs were there since the second installment). Or the fans who hate Dean's infamous scene with Emily's manuscript. Or Emily herself, especially concerning [[{Shipping} certain fans]] at least, her cruel breaking off of hers and Dean's engagement and the permanent breaking of Dean's heart. Or the fact that pretty much ''nothing'' is known about Teddy or his actual personality.