Top ten fictional mothers

In 2011 the Observer came up with a list of the ten best fictional mothers, including:
Marilla Cuthbert

Anne of Green Gables

When siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert adopt a boy from an orphanage to help out on Green Gables farm, they are not expecting the arrival in Avonlea of red-headed Anne Shirley. At first, Marilla ... doesn’t take to Anne’s incessant chatter and fanciful notions, but