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I always loved the sound of the Avonlea, although it took me a while to figure out the right way to pronounce it. :) I had never thought of it as a person name, but it's very pretty and I don't see why you couldn't use it.

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I can think of jillions and jillions of L.M. Montgomery names of all kinds. I could never list them all! Some of the most unusual ones that I can remember off-hand are...

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Kilmeny
Valancy
Marigold
Una
Ilse
Philippa
Jonas
Perry
Marilla
Rilla (nn for Marilla)
Jem (nn for James)
Hilary (male, nn Jingle)

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I might point out that her most well-known character, Anne, had a passion for names and always wished her name was Cordelia b/c she thought Anne was so plain. The character Anne wrote a story as a young woman and named her main characters Averil, Perceval Dalrymple, and Maurice Lennox. When Anne Shirley grew up and married Gilbert Blythe, they named their children: Joyce, James (nn Jem), Walter, Anne (nn Nan), Diana, Shirley, and Marilla (nn Rilla).