Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman was born in 1868 in Littleton, New Hampshire. She trained as a singer and studied for several years at the New England Conservatory. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts, where she began writing and publishing short stories and later novels for both children and adults. Pollyanna (1913) tells of an orphaned girl who goes to live with her stern aunt in a small New England town and changes the lives of the people around her by playing the 'glad game', looking for something to be glad about in every situation. The book was among the best-selling novels in the United States for several years and was followed by Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). The word 'Pollyanna' entered the English language to describe a very optimistic person. Her other novels include Just David, another bestseller. She died at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1920.

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