Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. She was best known as the creator of the Pollyanna series of books, starting with Pollyanna (1913), which were a popular phenomenon.

Biography

Eleanor Emily Hodgman was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, on December 19, 1868, the daughter of Llewella French (née Woolson) and Francis Fletcher Hodgman. She was trained as a singer, attending the New England Conservatory for several years. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter and relocated to Massachusetts, after which she began writing and publishing her short stories and, later, novels. She died at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1920, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Novels

Cross Currents (1907)

The Turn of the Tide (1908)

The Story of Marco (1911)

Miss Billy (1911)

Miss Billy's Decision (1912)

Pollyanna (1913)

The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch (1913)

Miss Billy Married (1914)

Pollyanna Grows Up (1915)

Just David (1916)

The Road to Understanding (1917)

Oh, Money! Money! (1918)

The Tangled Threads (1919)

Dawn (1919)

Mary Marie (1920)