Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American author, best known for two children’s books, Pollyanna, published in 1913, and Just David, published in 1916.[1] She died in December 1968. Her famous character, Pollyanna, had an optimistic outlook on everything. However, it wasn’t a book read to me and my two siblings, all of us born in the 1950s. In the book, Pollyanna loses both of her legs and finds a way to play what she and her father call “The Glad Game.”[2]
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