Eleanor Hodgman Porter died at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on. The Road to Understanding (1917) Oh, Money! Money! (1918) Dawn (1919) and Mary Marie (1920) were titles to follow. It was followed by Just David (1916), another orphan who transforms the lives of the people he meets. Chilton, faced with yet more of life's seeming insurmountable hurdles. Pollyanna Grows Up (1915) follows the heroine in Europe with her Aunt Polly and Dr. Mary Pickford starred in the silent version of 1920, Hayley Mills in the 1960's version. "Glad Clubs" sprang up, and the book was adapted for the theatre, television and screen productions. The young orphan Pollyanna Whittier was inspiration to young boys and girls everywhere with her irrepressible optimism and joie de vivre, "just breathing isn't living!". However, with the arrival of Pollyanna (1913) Porter won international acclaim. Miss Billy (1911) was her first commercial success, followed by Miss Billy's Decision (1912) and Miss Billy Married (1914). Cross Currents (1907) was her first full-length novel to be published, followed by The Turn of the Tide (1908) and The Story of Marco (1911).
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