Pollyanna Grows Up

Excerpt:

…"Really, indeed, I must say I beg to differ with you," she returned coldly. "Idon't care to be 'revolutionized,' and I have no lovers' quarrel to be patched up;and if there is ANYTHING that would be insufferable to me, it would be a littleMiss Prim with a long face preaching to me how much I had to be thankful for.I never could bear--" But a ringing laugh interrupted her."Oh, Ruth, Ruth," choked her sister, gleefully. "Miss Prim, indeed--POLLYANNA! Oh, oh, if only you could see that child now! But there, I mighthave known. I SAID one couldn't TELL about Pollyanna. And of course youwon't be apt to see her. But--Miss Prim, indeed!" And off she went into anothergale of laughter. Almost at once, however, she sobered and gazed at her sisterwith the old troubled look in her eyes."Seriously, dear, can't anything be done?" she pleaded. "You ought not to wasteyour life like this. Won't you try to get out a little more, and--meet people?"...


About Author:

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist.

Porter mainly wrote children's literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later 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), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), and Sister Sue (1921); her short story collections include Across the Years (c. 1923), Money, Love and Kate (1923), Little Pardner (1926).