Traveling along Littleton's Main Street, it has become commonplace to look up at the library lawn to see Pollyanna in her jubilant pose, and notice others as well admiring the bronze sculpture.
Porter not only invented the most optimistic literary heroine - glad and cheerful Pollyanna - she created an English-language word that then shaped the world's notion of extreme gladness. With Pollyanna her fictional and uplifting story of an orphaned girl with a sunny attitude, Eleanor H. Film - starred Mary Pickford in 1920 and Haley Mills in 1960Įleanor Hodgman Porter became a remarkable woman of history, and achieved a rare distinction internationally in the 20th century as an American novelist.Most famous Book - Pollyanna in 1913 - Topped the Best Seller list for two years.Third - Miss Billy - three bachelors and the result of a woman entering their lives (1911).Second book - Turn of the Tide dealt with Child labor (1908).First Book - Cross Currents appeared in 1907.Wrote between 150-200 articles for magazines.Writing Career - Wrote her first short story at age 33.Marriage - to John Lyman Porter, a native of Corinth, Vermont.Studied in Boston - New England Conservatory.Schooling - Attended Littleton High School (tutored at home due to ill health).
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