Eleanor H Porter

Pollyanna Grows Up illustrated Eleanor H Porter

Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter. It is the first of many ... Series, The Glad Books ... Critical reception and bibliographic information for Pollyanna Grows Up, with a biographical sketch of Eleanor H. Porter. Pollyanna Grows Up is a book of two halves. ... The story picks up about two years after the end of Pollyanna. Pollyanna is able to walk again and has returned home to live with Aunt Polly and Aunt Polly's husband, Dr. Chilton. Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr Chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as well as joys, and when she returns after six years, with Dr Chilton dead and Aunt Polly fallen on hard times, even Pollyanna has trouble maintaining her usual cheerful outlook.