I love her. She clearly did not have an easy life, yet she was able to spin all these stories that were beautiful and funny and spilling over with romantic prose but were also honest about the darkness and messiness of the world. I definitely responded more strongly to Emily's arc in "Emily's Quest" after I'd been diagnosed with depression myself.

Also it sort of blows my mind that "Rilla of Ingleside" even exists. She essentially mined her war journals for that book, so some of the events you're reading about, she actally wrote them in 'real time', while they had just freshly happened or were happening.