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
Edwin S. Porter Mary Pickford in her first feature film, "A Good Little Devil" (1913), also directing Pauline Frederick and John Barrymore. But his directorial skills had not kept pace with rapid changes in motion picture art, although his technical skills were piqued by 3D. Porter's last film premiered on June 10, 1915, "Niagara Falls", the first anaglyph 3D movie. In 1916 he left Famous Players during a reorganization. From 1917 to 1925 Porter served as president of the Precision Machine Company, manufacturers of the Simplex projectors. After his retirement in 1925 he continued to work on his own as an inventor and