Gene Stratton Porter
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Gene Stratton Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, screenwriter and naturalist who wrote fanciful, romantic, well-plotted stories set in the American Midwest.
Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and had one daughter, Jeannette, with him.
She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the Limberlost Swamp of Indiana, before she explored writing and produced her first novel, The Song of the Cardinal. Her novel Girl of the Limberlost is set in the swamp she loved and explored. She eventually wrote 12 books.
She moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1920s to join the movie business, and died there in 1924.
- The Song of the Cardinal
- Freckles
- At the Foot of the Rainbow
- Girl of the Limberlost
- Laddie
- Michael O'Halloran
- A Daughter of the Land
- The Keeper of the Bees
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1863 in literature | 1921 in literature | 1924 in literature | Limberlost Swamp | List of authors by name: P
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Did Jean Stratton Porter write "The Harvester"? about an recluse that gathered medicinal herbs in the wilds? I read this as a child, again as an adult and again after I was able to have my won herb garden DH
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I love your web sight. She is very interesting!
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i need to know why Gene spells her name the waya man would!!
Please email me with the anwser!!!
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Moths of the Limberlost was published by Gene Stratton Porter. It is a large technical book, not well known, and quite wonderful. I believeI have a copy. Barbara Kinsolver is a popular present-day writer who is enamored with moths and wolves and is writing in much the same gripping style as Porter. Deborah Caldwell, Farmingdale, Maine 04344 207-582-3249
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Gene's name was Genevive Stratton. Perhaps I spelled that incorrectly. I was always under the impression that she spelled her name as a man would in order to gain recognition because in her day a woman was not usually taken seriously. That theme is evident in her books, too, so it could be true. Beatrix Potter was also a technically oritned woman who wrote pupular books in order to make a living. Potters's works were not taken seriously, either. She made a living by being farm manager to her parents, who forced her into that work.
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I first read Stratton-Porter's novel,"The Keeperof The Bees", in 1958,it has been amongst my favourite books since that time,friends I have loaned a copy to tell me it is very old fashioned writing,I haven't thought this,but maybe I am old fashioned too. If this is so, then I am happy to be that way.
The books by Gene Stratton-Porter have not been easy to obtain in Australia,but maybe I can find a few on the Internet. Happy thought!
regards Bill Metcalfe
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I LOVE YOU WRITTING
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In school we are talking about you and you name is in our concert
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In school we are talking about you and your name is in our concert
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I am searching for The Harvester on CD. Can anyone help?
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