The couple settled into a quiet life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Porter first started her writing career. Porter was businessman who later became president of the National Separator and Machine Company of Boston. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter of Corinth, New Hampshire. After graduating, she toured the region, singing in choirs and recitals before eventually becoming a music teacher. Believing her talent lay in singing, Eleanor was accepted at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Porter was born on December 19, 1868, in Littleton, New Hampshire, to Francis and Llewella Hodgman. Not meant as a compliment, the wide usage of the expression 'Pollyanna' has in turn tarnished the book's critical reputation the limited scholarship on Porter's text has been widely divided regarding its value as legitimate literature. Pollyanna Whittier, the book's titular heroine, has come to symbolize unrelenting happiness, regardless of the enormity of any situation. While the novel remains popular-inspiring at least two successful movie adaptations and several million copies sold since its initial publication-critical opinion, where it exists, has not been kind to Porter's most famous creation. INTRODUCTIONĪt the time of its release, Porter's juvenile novel Pollyanna: The Glad Book (1913) inspired the addition of a new word into the English lexicon: 'Pollyanna'-a noun describing a person who is blindly optimistic. The following entry presents commentary on Porter's juvenile novel Pollyanna: The Glad Book (1913) through 2001. (Full name Eleanor Hodgman Porter also wrote under the pseudonyms Eleanor Stuart and Eleanor Stewart) American short-story writer and author of juvenile novels.

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