Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924)
Author of A Girl of the Limberlost
About the Author
Geneva Grace Stratton was born on a farm in Wabash County, Indiana in 1863. Stratton attended public schools. At an early age she roamed the countryside and developed a lively interest in nature and wildlife. In 1874 the family moved to the city of Wabash. She stayed in school until she was almost show more twenty, but did not receive a high school diploma. After an accident Stratton met during her recovery Charles Darwin Porter, a pharmacist from Geneva. He was 13 years her senior, but they were married in 1886. After oil was discovered on some farmland Mr. Porter owned, the Porters built a large house on the edge of the Limberlost swamp, a natural preserve for wild plants, moths, and birds. Stratton-Porter began to photograph birds and animals of the Swamp. Her early photographs appeared in the magazines Recreation and Outing. In 1901 she published her first piece of fiction in Metropolitan magazine. Stratton-Porter made her debut with The Song of the Cardinal. The next story, Freckles, about an orphan who gets a job as a timber guard in Limberlost, became a success. The book was made into a film in 1935 and 1960. During World War I Stratton-Porter moved to California. She wrote editorials for McCall's magazine and founded in 1922 Gene Stratton Porter film company to produce movies of her books. Stratton-Porter died on December 6, 1924, in Los Angeles, from injuries following a traffic accident when her limousine was hit by a trolley car. She was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in California. Her book, The Keeper of the Bees was posthumously published. The book was filmed in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Ball State University
Series
Works by Gene Stratton-Porter
Gene Stratton-Porter's Collected Works: A Girl Of The Limberlost, Laddie, A Daughter of the Land, Freckles, and More!(… (2013) 8 copies
Gene Stratton-Porter: The Natural Wonder, Surviving Photographs of the Great Limberlost Swamp (1940) 6 copies
Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At… (2016) 5 copies
The Best of Gene Stratton-Porter 2 copies
Freckles and Other Stories 2 copies
Dear 1 copy
The harvester 1 copy
Kardinaalin laulu 1 copy
Gene Stratton-Porter MICHAEL O'HALLORAN 1916 Grosset & Dunlap, NY w/Ephemera [Hardcover] unknown 1 copy
Pudonnut sulka 1 copy
Gene Stratton-Porter Works- A Girl Of The Limberlost Freckles Her Father's Daughter of the Land Harvester Laddie… (2015) 1 copy
I bigården 1 copy
Limberlostin vartija 1 copy
Lykkefjæren 1 copy
I kamp med livet 1 copy
Michael ohalloran 1 copy
Associated Works
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contributor — 407 copies, 5 reviews
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- Legal name
- Stratton-Porter, Geneva
- Other names
- Stratton Porter, Geneva
Stratton, Geneva Grace (birth)
Porter, Geneva
Porter, Geneva Stratton - Birthdate
- 1863-08-17
- Date of death
- 1924-12-06
- Burial location
- Gene Stratton Porter State Historic Site, Nobel County, Indiana, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Wabash County, Indiana, USA
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Wabash County, Indiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Geneva, Indiana, USA - Occupations
- photographer
novelist
writer - Relationships
- Stratton-Porter, Jeanette (daughter)
- Short biography
- In addition to writing works of natural history and her wildlife photography based largely on the Limberlost region of Indiana, Gene Stratton-Porter was a popular romantic novelist. Her books novels were translated into numerous languages, as well as Braille.
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Reviews
A Girl of the Limberlost (#2) by Gene Stratton-Porter
Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.
David Langston lives a simple life harvesting medicinal herbs to sell in the city. He believes that he has all that he needs in life - that is, until he meets Ruth and everything changes.
Kate Bates, as the youngest child, and female, in a large prosperous farm family, has been designated as her mother's helper in old age. Kate finds this unfair since all of the brothers have been given land and the older sisters sent to teacher training. With the help of a nephew and sister-in-law, she defies her parents, becomes a teacher, and leaves home. Her real ambition, however, is to own and cultivate a large farm. After rejecting the easy path to her dream, she suffers through a bad marriage but ultimately acquires her land and achieves happiness.… (more)
If you want a physical copy of this fine story (and not an independently published one), it is published by Indiana University Press.
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