The title of each episode in season 1 is a quote from the 1847 novel 'Jane Eyre' written by Charlotte Brontë.
The title of each episode in season 2 is a quote from the 1871 novel 'Middlemarch' written by George Eliot.
The title of each episode in season 3 is a quote from the 1818 novel 'Frankenstein' written by Mary Shelley
It was canceled after Season 3 because of the Netflix and CBC breakup, despite its success and high ratings. Fans of the show launched a campaign on Twitter to get Netflix to renew the series. The hashtag #RenewAnnewithanE has been used over one million times since the show's cancellation. Producers tried to make a 4th season with another network or make a movie for the ending, but they couldn't do so.
Canadian fans disliked the US promotional poster, which featured a retouched version of Amybeth McNulty. Her eyes and teeth were made slightly brighter to stand out more, her freckles were reduced, her hair was somewhat redone, and the shadows under her eyes were removed. When photographer Caitlin Cronenberg, who took the original portrait, noticed the altered image, she wrote on her Facebook page, "As the person who took this photo, I'm pretty surprised to see this. Completely unnecessary to do anything to the spectacular and captivating Amybeth."
Phrases carved in branches in the opening credits are: "A perfect graveyard of buried hopes" "Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?" "Big ideas you need big words to express." "To sleep in a tree in the moonshine." "Anne with an 'E'" All of these phrases are quotes from the series of books based on "Anne of Green Gables".
Executive producer Miranda de Pencier played Josie Pye in the 1985 miniseries Le bonheur au bout du chemin (1985) and its sequels.