Gene Stratton-Porter

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Gene Stratton-Porter


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

Died
December 06, 1924

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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
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A Girl of the Limberlost (L...

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Freckles (Limberlost, #1)

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Laddie: A True Blue Story

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The Keeper of the Bees

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The Harvester

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A Daughter of the Land

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Michael O'Halloran

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Her Father's Daughter

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The Magic Garden

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At the Foot of the Rainbow

3.68 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1907 — 222 editions
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“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.
After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
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“...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

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