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Eleanor H. Porter

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Eleanor Hodgeman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist.

Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgeman trained as a singing|singer but later turned to writing. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, for example three Miss Billy books.

Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913 in literature|1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915 in literature|1915).

She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.





  • gutenberg author| id=Eleanor+H.+Porter | name=Eleanor H. Porter

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/pollyanna/forever_porter.html PBS biography

  • http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms796.html Papers at Dartmouth

  • imdb_name|id=0692108|name=Eleanor H. Porter



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