Pollyanna 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 "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including "Pollyanna Plays the Game" by Colleen L. Reece,
Eleanor Rigby better song written than 'Eleanor Rigby'." Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees once said that their 1969 song "Melody Fair" was influenced by "Eleanor Rigby". America's single, "Lonely People", was written by Dan Peek in 1973 as an optimistic response to "Eleanor Rigby." The song's apparent criticism of the pre-1960s order of British society has attracted the opprobrium of some conservatives; Peter Hitchens, for example, has attacked what he describes as its "dismissal of faith and mockery of quiet lives". Eleanor Rigby "Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the Beatles, released on the 1966 album "Revolver" and as a 45