Eleanor H. Porter

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Eleanor Emily Porter (Hodgman)

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Birthplace: Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
Death: May 21, 1920 (51)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Fletcher Hodgman and Llewella French Hodgman
Wife of John Lyman Porter
Sister of Fred Clark Hodgman

Managed by: Gene Daniell
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About Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (born as Eleanor Emily Hodgman, aka. Eleanor H. Porter) was an American novelist. Porter wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Turn of the Tide (1908), The Road to Understanding (1917), Oh Money! Money! (1918), Dawn (1919), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920) and Sister Sue (1921); her short-story collections include Across the Years (c. 1919), Money, Love and Kate (1923), and Little Pardner (1926).

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Eleanor H. Porter's Timeline

1868
December 19, 1868
Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
1920
May 21, 1920
Age 51
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States