Gene Stratton-Porter
1863–1924
Biography
Gene Stratton-Porter, born Geneva Grace Stratton, lived from 1863 to 1924. She came from Wabash County, Indiana, and was a writer who also photographed wildlife and studied the natural world closely. Much of her work was rooted in the Limberlost, a wetland in her home state whose birds, moths and plants she observed and photographed. She also spoke up for conservation: in 1917 she urged lawmakers to protect the Limberlost and other Indiana wetlands. In the year she died she founded a film production company of her own.
Her novels were enormously popular. She wrote several best-sellers, A Girl of the Limberlost among them, and ran regular columns in the women's magazines McCall's and Good Housekeeping. Editions of her books appeared in more than twenty languages, Braille included, and at the peak of her fame in the 1910s her readership was put at roughly fifty million. Eight of her novels were turned into films. Her fiction carries her natural history into its plots, which is why she is often remembered as a naturalist as well as a novelist.
The site holds Kardinalens frieri, a translated edition with Ernst Lundquist credited as the translator. It shows how far her stories travelled beyond the English-speaking world, and it gives readers a way into her work in a language other than English.
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Books
Kardinalens frieri: En fågelhistoria
by Gene Stratton-Porter (translated by Ernst Lundquist)
A male cardinal, the finest singer along an Indiana river, sets out in spring to find a mate and win her with his song, while hunters and the changing seasons threaten them both. Gene Stratton-Porter's short nature romance, here in Ernst Lundquist's Swedish translation, follows…
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