Leslie

[Elatia]

I wish Leslie and her family had gotten more than a byline in this book. Leslie was such an interesting character and should've gotten more page time.

[Mitali]

I agree. Leslie was a fascinating character in 'Anne's House of Dreams'. But apparently she stopped being fascinating and became an ordinary housewife once she married Owen Ford and moved away from P.E.I., since L.M. Montgomery barely mentions her again in the later books. Even her son Kenneth, who is the nominal love-interest of the main character in 'Rilla of Ingleside', barely appears in about 3 scenes, and remains mostly personality-free.

It's rather annoying that Montgomery wrote so many books about the same set of characters (Anne and her friends and family), but certain interesting supporting characters like Leslie or Phil (from 'Anne of the Island') appeared in only one of the books, while tiresome characters like Susan Baker kept turning up again and again, and stealing focus from the interesting ones.

[Elatia]

I like Susan well enough after rereading Ingleside and Rainbow Valley, but she shouldn't have been focused on as much as she was. I often wonder if Montgomery didn't do that intentionally to sour the readers on anymore Anne books.

[Mitali]

Susan was ok in the earlier books - though I would have preferred her in even smaller doses than that. But she was really intolerable in Rilla of Ingleside. She was essentially the co-heroine of the book, since every other chapter was about Susan reading the newspaper and offering her "expert's opinion" on the war. While her narrow-minded rants were probably realistic enough for a person of her time, that didn't make them any more pleasant to read.