Gene Stratton-Porter





Gene Stratton-Porter

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born
August 17, 1863 in Wabash County, Indiana, The United States

died
December 06, 1924

gender
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She was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.

Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.

She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which...more


Average rating: 4.10 · 10,871 ratings · 1,484 reviews · 44 distinct works
A Girl of the Limberlost
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 5,366 ratings — published 1909 — 104 editions
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Freckles
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 2,231 ratings — published 1904 — 84 editions
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Laddie: A True Blue Story
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 1913 — 59 editions
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The Keeper of the Bees
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 1925 — 5 editions
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The Harvester
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Michael O'Halloran
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1915 — 48 editions
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A Daughter Of The Land
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1918 — 46 editions
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Her Father's Daughter
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1921 — 44 editions
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The Magic Garden
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1927 — 6 editions
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The Song of the Cardinal
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1906 — 35 editions
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Freckles A Girl of the Limberlost
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“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean and decent people who still believe in God and cherish high ideals, and it is upon the lives of these people that I base what I write. To contend that this does not produce a picture true to life is idiocy. It does. It produces a picture true to ideal life; to the best that good men and good women can do at level best.

I care very little for the . . . critics who proclaim that there is no such thing as a moral man, and that my pictures of life are sentimental and idealized. They are! And I glory in them! They are straight, living pictures from the lives of men and women of morals, honor, and loving kindness. . . .

Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, Gene Stratton Porter: A Little Story Of Her Life And Work

“Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day...”
Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie: A True Blue Story

“But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.

"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

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