↑ 'Porter, Eleanor Hodgman.' Encyclopedia Britannica Online.A story of female courage, ingenuity and determination, this is perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier. ↑ Bestsellers, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pollyanna Grows Up The brilliant follow-up to Eleanor Porters first novel of love, betrayal, superstition and fear in Elizabethan England.↑ Bestsellers, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pollyanna The Arena, The Argonaut, The Authors League of America, The Century.She continued to write best-selling novels throughout the 1910s and died on May 21, 1920. The town of Littleton knew her for her singing voice when she was a young girl, and she continued to please the town in her writing.

Eleanor Hodgman Porter was born in Littleton, New Hampshire on 19 December 1868, the daughter of Francis Fletcher Hodgman and Llewella Woolson. 'It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it' - from Pollyanna (1913).

In 1913, however, she wrote Pollyanna, which sold over a million copies and brought her national fame, demanded a sequel ( Pollyanna Grows Up), and introduced the word 'Pollyanna,' meaning a pleasantly yet extremely optimistic person. Porter (1868-1920), American author best known for her Pollyanna novels. Porter was born December 19, 1868, in Littleton, New Hampshire, where she grew up, married, and began to write short stories for magazines as well as novels.

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