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Pollyanna Grows Up
Author: Eleanor H. Porter
Source: Wikipedia
Copyright status: Public domain

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 May 21, 1920) was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916).

Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 childrens novel by Eleanor H. Porter. It is the first of many sequels to Porters best-selling Pollyanna (1913), but is the only one written by Porter herself; the numerous later additions to the Pollyanna franchise were the work of other authors.
Plot introduction
Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, spends her time teaching the glad game to a new town, and a very bitter woman, Mrs. Carew, who became very bitter hearted since her sisters son, Jamie, was missing. Along the way she makes new friends, such as Sadie and Jamie: Jamie is a delicate literary genius whose withered legs compel him to rely on a wheelchair and crutches.
Some years later, twenty-year-old Pollyanna and her aunt fall upon hard times. Following the death of Dr. Chilton, as a means of making money, Pollyanna and her aunt are forced to take in the friends Pollyanna made six years earlier as boarders. However, there are many skeletons lurking in peoples closets, causing numerous misunderstandings and many revelations, including how old childhood friend Jimmy Bean-Pendleton had ended up all alone since the death of his father.
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 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1920, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Grave of Eleanor H. Porter, Mount Auburn Cemetery
Works
Porter wrote mainly about childrens 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), Keiths 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).
Porter achieved considerable commercial success: Pollyanna ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47 printings between 1915 and 1920); Just David ranked third in 1916; The Road to Understanding ranked fourth in 1917, and Oh Money! Money! ranked fifth in 1918. Source: Wikipedia

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