Eleanor H. Porter
The life
Eleanor H. Porter trained as a singer in Boston before turning to fiction, and in 1913 gave the language a word: Pollyanna, whose relentless gladness made the book a phenomenon and its author's name a synonym she never quite escaped. Her adult novels — the Miss Billy books among them — sold steadily alongside it, and she was still writing when influenza killed her at fifty-one.
Across the Years
168 pages — the shortest way into Porter, not the greatest.
The stories in this volume are here reprinted by the courteous permission of the publishers of the periodicals in which they first appeared,—The Ladies’ Home Journal, Ainslee’s Magazine, The Scrap Book, The New England Magazine, The Pictorial Review, The Housewife, The Pacific Monthly, The Arena, Lippincott’s…
