Montgomery & Wiggin revisited, at last

When I said I'd do a follow-up to my last post 'tomorrow', nobody took it too literally, right? Cause it was all written up in my head, and it was oh-so eloquent and fascinating and so on and so forth (yup - that's all gone)... and there would have been time to do it and still to write an astute and beautiful essay (spot the quote!). And then Older Daughter's mobile phone got stolen. That of course caused all kinds of running around - both figurative and not so - and time on hold to customer service, and eventually to about every Meteor shop in town to find a loaner one. Shot a big old hole in that day's essay writing. Next day's drama was the washer trying to set the house on fire. Yeah, that was fun. Much time was lost today to the attempt to clear the clutter out of the path between front door and kitchen. And more when the man attempting to un-install the old machine discovered that the 'idiots' - surprisingly left at 'idiots', without the usual accompanying swear-words - putting in the kitchen cupboards had buried plumbing and electrical access. And the new one was a bit bigger than the old, though they're all supposed to be standard, so there was more fun waiting to see whether it was going to fit. But eventually, all was sorted, and two loads of laundry/washing have been done in a very nice new machine. (At this point there is much more to be done, but nowhere to dry it.) I've also learned some fascinating facts about the energy ratings of washing machines - this gets an A+!

The essay is still suffering, as is much else, so there'll only be a question asked instead of the question and that eloquent elaboration of my response to the question that was in my head a few days ago.

Here's the question: would anyone buy the argument that L.M. Montgomery had plagiarized Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm in writing Anne of Green Gables? steepholm said he'd expected me to have a nice little article out soon to that effect, but despite the quotes I posted last time, and the list of similar incidents, characterizations and more (and that was a very partial list) of the post before that, I wouldn't buy it for a second. I'd be interested to hear opinions on either side.