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    Miss Billy -- Married
    Miss Billy -- Married
    Miss Billy -- Married
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    Miss Billy -- Married

    By Eleanor Porter

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    According to Wikipedia: "Eleanor Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgman was trained as a singer but later turned to writing. In 1892, she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, including three Miss Billy books (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, and Miss Billy Married), Cross Currents (1928), The Turn of the Tide (1928), and Six Star Ranch (1916). Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Story of Marco (1920), Just David (1915), The Road to Understanding (1916), Oh Money Money (1917), Dawn (1918), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), and Sister Sue (1921); her short stories include "Money, Love and Kate" (1924) and "Little Pardner" (1927)."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455314386
    Miss Billy -- Married
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    Eleanor Porter

    Eleanor Porter has lectured at Universities in England and Hong Kong and her poetry and short fiction has been published in magazines. Eleanor grew up in Colwall, in Herefordshire. She writes at an oak desk salvaged from her junior school and from her window you can see the house she grew up in.

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