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
James Ezekiel Porter Weld, Maine in Porter's home county was named in his honor as well. One of Porter's personal Smith & Wesson revolvers that he carried while on duty is in the collections at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. James E. Porter was featured as a character in Donald F. Myers' novel entitled "Custer's Gatling Guns: What If He Had Taken His Machine Guns to the Little Bighorn?" and also in Frederick J. Chiaventone's "A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at Little Bighorn" and Romain Wilhelmsen's "The Curse of Destiny: The Betrayal of General George Armstrong ..." James