Eleanor H. Porter
1868–1920
Biography
Eleanor Hodgman Porter was an American novelist who lived from 1868 to 1920. She was born Eleanor Emily Hodgman in Littleton, New Hampshire, and trained as a singer at the New England Conservatory before her marriage in 1892 to John Lyman Porter. After moving to Massachusetts she began to publish short stories and then novels, mainly for children and young readers, along with adventure stories and romances. Her death came in 1920 at her house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her best-known book is Pollyanna, published in 1913, which was a commercial success and ranked among the best-selling American novels of the next few years. Its sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up, came out in 1915. Porter's other novels include Just David (1916), The Road to Understanding (1917) and Oh, Money! Money! (1918), and she also published collections of short stories. The Pollyanna story was filmed in 1920 and again in 1960, and the name Pollyanna is now used for an unusually cheerful, optimistic person.
The book on this site is Pollyanna. Its heroine is a young orphan who is sent to live with a stern aunt in a small New England town. Her father taught her a habit she calls the glad game, which means looking for something to be glad about in any situation, and her cheerfulness gradually changes the people around her. The novel has remained widely read since it appeared in 1913, and it is the book for which Porter is still remembered.
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Books
Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of…
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