Porter Eleanor Hodgman
Eleanor Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgman was trained as a singer but later turned to writing. In 1892, she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, including three Miss Billy books (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, and Miss Billy Married), Just David (1916), Six Star Ranch (1916), Cross Currents (1928), and The Turn of the Tide (1908). Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Story of Marco (1920), The Road to Understanding (1916), Oh Money! Money! (1917), Dawn (1918), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), and Sister Sue (1921); her short stories include "Money, Love and Kate" (1924) Porter achieved considerable commercial succes: in 1913, Pollyanna ranked eighth among bestselling novels in the United States, second in 1914, and fourth in 1915 (it went through forty-seven printings between 1915 and 1920); in 1916, Just David ranked third; in 1917, The Road to Understanding ranked fourth; in 1918, Oh Money! Money! ranked fifth.[1] She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920.
Pollyanna Grows Up
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: Internet
Pollyanna Grows Up is a wonderful story that was written by Eleanor Porter as the second part of Pollyanna adventures. The story is magical and wonderful, narrated with a good sense of humor and with the use of great vocabulary. In this part of the sequel Pollyanna gets better after the car accident and returns to Boston because of her wonderful nurse Della Wetherby whose sister Ruth Carew has lost her son Jamie who was taken by his father. Thus, she feels very miserable and sad. Ruth lives in a big house and does nothing because of her tragedy and at first she cannot stand Pollyanna but then understands that the girl helps her forget her sadness. In Boston Pollyanna meets a lot of people and many of them become her friends. She also is looking for Jamie for a long time. In this part of the story we see how Pollyanna grows up and becomes serious and more experienced. It is very interesting to see how her personality develops and changes. The novel is definitely recommended to all fans of the first part as it is equally charming and wonderful.
Miss Billy's Decision
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: Electronic books
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Miss Billy
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: Electronic books
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Mary Marie
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: History & Historical Fiction
By an American novelist Eleanor Hodgman Porter. The book begins: Father calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name is Anderson. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm a cross-current and a contradiction. That is, Sarah says I'm that. (Sarah is my old nurse.) She says she read it once--that the children of unlikes were always a cross-current and a contradiction. And my father and mother are unlikes, and I'm the children. That is, I'm the child. I'm all there is.
The Tangled Threads
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
When Hester was two years old a wheezy hand-organ would set her eyes to sparkling and her cheeks to dimpling and when she was twenty the ¿Maiden¿s Prayer ¿ played by a school-girl would fill her soul with ecstasy. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Across the Years
- Author: Porter Eleanor Hodgman
- Genre: History
CD-ROM Edition Titles include: WHEN FATHER AND MOTHER REBELLED JUPITER ANN THE AXMINSTER PATH PHINEAS AND THE MOTOR CAR THE MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN THE PRICE OF A PAIR OF SHOES THE LONG ROAD A COUPLE OF CAPITALISTS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KATY THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE YEARS FOR JIMMY A SUMMONS HOME THE BLACK SILK GOWNS A BELATED HONEYMOON WHEN AUNT ABBY WAKED UP WRISTERS FOR THREE THE GIVING THANKS OF CYRUS AND HULDAH A NEW ENGLAND IDOL
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