Pollyanna Whittier appears in Alan Moore's comic "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", Volume 1. She is shown to retain her optimistic outlook despite being raped by the character Griffin. Pollyanna Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook: a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Eleven more "Pollyanna" sequels, known as
Edward S. Porter His funeral was at the home of a brother-in-law and he was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery Edward S. Porter Edward S. Porter (October 19, 1848 – June 13, 1902) was a physician in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a physician for the Louisville city sanitary force, the Orphan's home, at the nearby insane asylum, and at Simmons College of Kentucky. Edward S. Porter was born in Delaware on October 19, 1848 to Jesse and Priscilla Porter. He attended Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania for seven years, finally getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1873. He then attended the Brooklyn Medical