[2] The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business.

[3] Montgomery had grown up in a Scottish-Canadian family, where stories, legends, and myths from Scotland were often told, and she drew upon this background in creating the character of Stanley, who excels at the telling of tales.

[5] The character of Peter Craig bears a strong resemblance in terms of appearance and personality to Herman Leard, the great love of Montgomery's life, the man she wished she had married, but did not.

[7] The Story Girl triumphs because of her inner qualities with her integrity, her strong sense of romanticism and her powers of imagination proving to be more greater than anything possessed by the pretty, but inane Felicity.

[9] Montgomery knew when she wed Macdonald that she would leave Prince Edward Island for Ontario, and at the time she started writing the book in the summer of 1909 was overcome with nostalgia for her teenage years.

[12] At one point, the characters find a portrait of God that terrifies them that depicts the Lord of All the Hosts as "the stern, angrily-frowning old man with the tossing hair and beard" that appears to be inspired by William Blake painting Urizen.

[13] Despite the light tone, the Story Girl's tales about angels whose love was forbidden changed the constellations and that of the proud man who blasphemed God's name and was punished by torn apart by Satan's claw forever in Hell shows the more serious side of Montgomery's faith.

[14] The novel ends in the fall of "royal magnificence of coloring, under the vivid blue autumn sky" where at "the big willow by the gate was a splendid golden dome, and the maples that were scattered through the spruce grove waved blood-red banners over the sombre cone-bearers" where the Story Girl stands with a garland made of leaves.