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
Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester of Wales, Gwenllian was imprisoned by Edward I of England, her mother's first cousin, at Sempringham priory, where she died 1337. Eleanor appears as a major character in Sharon Kay Penman's novel "Falls the Shadow", where she is called Nell. Eleanor is also the main character in Virginia Henley's "The Dragon and the Jewel", which tells of her life from just before her marriage to William Marshal to right before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. Her romance and marriage to Simon de Montfort are very much romanticized in this novel, especially since in real life Simon is killed the