Eleanor H. Porter wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is "Pollyanna" (1913), 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. 1919), "Money, Love and Kate" (1923), and "Little Pardner" (1926). Porter achieved considerable commercial success: "Pollyanna" ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47
Eleanor Rigby 6 July 1957, contains the gravestone of an individual called Eleanor Rigby. McCartney said he may have been subconsciously influenced by the name on the gravestone. In 2008, however, when a birth certificate was sold at auction of a woman named Eleanor Rigby, with seller and buyer believing it belonged to the person referenced in the song, McCartney restated publicly: "Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up." He added, "If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me." The Eleanor Rigby from the birth certificate lived