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Gene Stratton-Porter’s Collected Works: A Girl Of The Limberlost, Laddie, A Daughter of the Land, Freckles, and More!
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● A Detailed Biography of Gene Stratton-Porter
● A Fully Interactive Table of Contents
● Superior Kindle Formatting
Gene Stratton-Porter 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 best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version.
This Edition Contains 11 Works:
● The Song of the Cardinal
● Freckles
● At the Foot of the Rainbow
● A Girl of The Limberlost
● The Harvester
● Moths of the Limberlost
● Laddie
● Michael O'Halloran
● A Daughter of the Land
● Her Father's Daughter
● The Fire Bird
● A Detailed Biography of Gene Stratton-Porter
● A Fully Interactive Table of Contents
● Superior Kindle Formatting
Gene Stratton-Porter 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 best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version.
This Edition Contains 11 Works:
● The Song of the Cardinal
● Freckles
● At the Foot of the Rainbow
● A Girl of The Limberlost
● The Harvester
● Moths of the Limberlost
● Laddie
● Michael O'Halloran
● A Daughter of the Land
● Her Father's Daughter
● The Fire Bird
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First published October 23, 2009
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Gene Stratton-Porter
122 books675 followersShe 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 was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.
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 was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.
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May 5, 2021
“A Girl of the Limberlost” is an amazing book. It tells us about Elnora and how she paid to go to school by selling moths. It tells of her quest for college and how she was missing four yellow emperors. It also tells of how Philip came to the Limberlost to get better, and ended up marrying Elnora instead of Edith Carr. I love this book, and I know you will too. Elnora is a girl who lives with her mother. They have a land with much oil under it, filled with good timber, cows and sheep. Mrs. Comstock, Elnora’s mother, seems to think they do not have a lot of money because of their high taxes, but they do. Elnora has to sell moths to the bird woman to be able to attend school and have nice clothing. This book report will tell you more about the characters. (The list of them is below!) I hope you’ll be encouraged by this report to read the book.
Elnora
Philip Ammon
Mrs. Comstock
Wesley Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Billy
Edith Carr
Polly Ammon
Tom Levering
Terence O'More
The Bird Woman
The first part of the book is very important, it gives us a lot of good information about Elnora and her past life. The only thing I do not like about it, is that Elnora’s mother is not very nice yet. In the beginning of the book, Elnora is just about to leave for her first day at high school. She goes, and hides her lunch at her box in the limberlost, later a hobo finds it and eats it. Luckily, the hobo left the napkin so Elnora would not have to worry about her mother being angry she lost the napkin. Her first day at school was terrible. All the kids made fun of her and she didn’t even have her school books. On the way to school another day, she found a way to pay for her books. She meets the bird woman and together they gather her moths, the bird woman pays her lots of money for them. Elnora opens a bank account for the first time. Once she gets home from school, she gives her mother half the money and her mother takes it and hides it behind a clock. Margery’s and Wesley Sinton find out about Elnora’s troubles and buy her a new dress , shoes, umbrella, lunch carton, and rain coat. She promises to pay them back for all of it, thanks to the bird woman, she does. Elnora then goes to her little cupboard in the woods and finds a note there for her. She hid the rest of her money there, and a man found it and protected it for her. She gets scared, and decides not to go back into the Limberlost again. So ends the first part of ‘A Girl of the Limberlost.’ This part of the book is my favorite. It is where Elnora starts getting nice things, and is treated nicely. Most importantly, though, her mother has a big change of character! When Elnora starts going to school again, she uses her beautiful brand new lunch box. On the way, she meets a starving boy named Billy and gave him her lunch. Billy’s father is drunk and Billy does not get anything to eat from him while he is drunk. Then, the next two days Elnora gives Billy her lunch. One day, some girls from school come and eat the rest of Elnora’s lunch she was saving for herself pretending to be mean! Then, they make her a new lunch that is even bigger then the part she had saved. That day, Elnora, Billy, and Billy’s little brother and sister get fed. One day, Mr. Sinton, Wesley Sinton, finds Billy. He goes to Billy’s home and finds that Billy’s father is dead. Another family adopt Billy's younger brother and sister, but Billy gets adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Sinton. Margaret Sinton does not like Billy. When Mrs. Comstock comes over and meets Billy, she said she would love to have a little boy like him. She was going to take Billy,, but Margaret says that she will be nice to Billy and to bring back her little boy. Mrs. Comstock does and is sad she did not get Billy. One day, Elnora starts to want to learn to play an instrument, perhaps violin and she tells her mother, Mrs. Comstock, she wants one. Sadly, Mrs. Comstock does not like violins. So, Elnora tells Mrs. Sinton and she promises to get Elnora a violin. Elnora’s father had did just when Elnora was born. Mrs. Sinton finds Elnora’s father’s violin at someone else’s house. It turns out, he was planning to go to a ball with another woman named Elsie, so when he went back home he went through the woods so that Mrs. Comstock would not notice. He got stuck in a quagmire, and died. His violin was at Elsie’s house the whole time. So, Margaret goes to her house and takes the violin. Elnora then teaches herself to play and joins the orchestra.
All this time, she has been hunting moths in the Limberlost for the bird woman to sell so she can write a book about all the moths in the world. One day, Elnora is out moth hunting with her mother. Elnora meets a man named Philip Ammon and they become good friends. Philip used to live in the city, but he moved out once he got a fever to get better in the countryside with his uncle who is a doctor. Elnora moth hunts with Philip and they make a full moth collection for the bird woman, except for two yellow emperors! Finally, it is time for Elnora to graduate, she needs three dresses and does not have any of them. Her mother pretends that she is getting someone to make the dress for her. On the day of her graduation she tells Elnora her dress is on the bed. It is the same dress from last summer. Elnora is very upset and she goes to the Bird Woman who gives her one of Angel’s dresses to wear. She telegrams Angel and explains everything to her. Angel gives all of her old stuff to Elnora. Elnora has a violin recital and Billy, Mrs. and Mr. Sinton attend. Her mother peers in at the door and sees Elnora playing her dad’s violin. She is very upset, but soon gets over it. One day, Elnora’s mother was sweeping and she kills a Yellow Emperor even though Elnora asked her not to! Elnora is very upset because she told her mother she needed one. Then, Mrs. Comstock decided to do something crazy. In the middle of the night, she goes into the forest and lights some lanterns. Some terrible people from a club that makes illegal alcohol turns up, thinking the lanterns are summons. Mrs. Comstock shoes them all, except one, away. Together they catch moths for Elnora. They put them into her collection box and catch two Yellow Emperors. When Elnora wakes up in the morning, she finds the moths all eaten by a mouse and most of the moths in her collection destroyed by the ones Mrs. Comstock found. She does not tell her mother and Philip helps Elnora replace the moths. This second part of the book is my favorite. It just makes me feel that Elnora is finally getting some help with her moth hunting! Yet, we still have a third of the book left. This part of ‘A Girl of the Limberlost’ is a very interesting part. It is constantly changing perspectives, so you should pay very good attention. At the start, Philip receives a telegram that he has to go back to the city to take care of his dad who got sick. While Elnora is going away to teach for a little while to save up for college, Mrs. Comstock gives herself a total makeover. They even move houses! Elnora is very happy with her new house. The book then changes perspective and shows us Philip Ammon. He is at the city and is attending a ball with his betrothed, Edith Carr. She is dressed up like a Yellow Emperor. A real Yellow Emperor flies in the window! Philip catches it and mails it to Elnora. Edith is super upset. She makes a huge fuss and embarrasses Philip. She says they are never going to be married and throws her ring! Philip finds it and goes home. Philip is a bit sad, but otherwise fine with it. He travels back to Elnora with a ring his sister, Polly, picked out. He proposes to Elnora, but she says she needs time to think. Meanwhile, Edith is in the city feeling very sick. She wants Philip to come back. Her friend, Hart Henderson takes care of her and helps her. They find out where Philip is and go to the Limberlost. Elnora is wearing the ring Philip gave her and Edith thinks they are engaged. Elnora explains they are not yet and Edith tries to convince Elnora to give him back to her. Hart and Philip are trying to ‘fix’ Hart’s car, but it is not actually broken. Hart was just giving Edith sometime alone with Elnora. Polly and her betrothed, Tom are talking to Mrs. Comstock. In the end, Philip goes to the mechanic with the city people. He comes back and finds two notes, one for him and one for Mrs. Comstock. They read them, and find out Elnora has gone somewhere to think everything over, they do not know where. Elnora meanwhile has just gotten off a train and meets Freckles, or Terence O’Moore. She lives with him, Angel, and their children for a little while. She writes her mother to come over and she says she will be on the evening train. Meanwhile, Edith Carr is still weak and sick. She saw Elnora and is going to tell Philip. Philip is at the hospital and finally hears of Elnora's whereabouts. He comes on the same train as Mrs. Comstock, who brought Billy. He proposes to Elnora and she says yes! They later get married. Edith and Hart find a Yellow Emperor. They travel to where Elnora is and give it to her along with their well wishes for her marriage. I think they will also get married. Everyone is surprised, in a happy way and they all lived happily ever after. I do not think they include the matrimonial ceremony in the actual book, but Raine would love it anyway. This is definitely an amazing book, and I am looking forward to reading the prequel, ‘Freckles.’ A Girl of the Limberlost is an amazing book. It is overflowing with love and loneliness, hatred and pain, happiness and joy. I would fully recommend this book to any and all. If I had to pick a favorite part, it would be when Elnora’s mother starts to help her find moths. I would rate this book by Gene Stratton-Porter a ten out of ten. Elnora is such an interesting, kind, and loyal character, I would not like the book without her. For now, though, I will say goodbye to the Limberlost! Until we get the next book.
Elnora
Philip Ammon
Mrs. Comstock
Wesley Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Billy
Edith Carr
Polly Ammon
Tom Levering
Terence O'More
The Bird Woman
The first part of the book is very important, it gives us a lot of good information about Elnora and her past life. The only thing I do not like about it, is that Elnora’s mother is not very nice yet. In the beginning of the book, Elnora is just about to leave for her first day at high school. She goes, and hides her lunch at her box in the limberlost, later a hobo finds it and eats it. Luckily, the hobo left the napkin so Elnora would not have to worry about her mother being angry she lost the napkin. Her first day at school was terrible. All the kids made fun of her and she didn’t even have her school books. On the way to school another day, she found a way to pay for her books. She meets the bird woman and together they gather her moths, the bird woman pays her lots of money for them. Elnora opens a bank account for the first time. Once she gets home from school, she gives her mother half the money and her mother takes it and hides it behind a clock. Margery’s and Wesley Sinton find out about Elnora’s troubles and buy her a new dress , shoes, umbrella, lunch carton, and rain coat. She promises to pay them back for all of it, thanks to the bird woman, she does. Elnora then goes to her little cupboard in the woods and finds a note there for her. She hid the rest of her money there, and a man found it and protected it for her. She gets scared, and decides not to go back into the Limberlost again. So ends the first part of ‘A Girl of the Limberlost.’ This part of the book is my favorite. It is where Elnora starts getting nice things, and is treated nicely. Most importantly, though, her mother has a big change of character! When Elnora starts going to school again, she uses her beautiful brand new lunch box. On the way, she meets a starving boy named Billy and gave him her lunch. Billy’s father is drunk and Billy does not get anything to eat from him while he is drunk. Then, the next two days Elnora gives Billy her lunch. One day, some girls from school come and eat the rest of Elnora’s lunch she was saving for herself pretending to be mean! Then, they make her a new lunch that is even bigger then the part she had saved. That day, Elnora, Billy, and Billy’s little brother and sister get fed. One day, Mr. Sinton, Wesley Sinton, finds Billy. He goes to Billy’s home and finds that Billy’s father is dead. Another family adopt Billy's younger brother and sister, but Billy gets adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Sinton. Margaret Sinton does not like Billy. When Mrs. Comstock comes over and meets Billy, she said she would love to have a little boy like him. She was going to take Billy,, but Margaret says that she will be nice to Billy and to bring back her little boy. Mrs. Comstock does and is sad she did not get Billy. One day, Elnora starts to want to learn to play an instrument, perhaps violin and she tells her mother, Mrs. Comstock, she wants one. Sadly, Mrs. Comstock does not like violins. So, Elnora tells Mrs. Sinton and she promises to get Elnora a violin. Elnora’s father had did just when Elnora was born. Mrs. Sinton finds Elnora’s father’s violin at someone else’s house. It turns out, he was planning to go to a ball with another woman named Elsie, so when he went back home he went through the woods so that Mrs. Comstock would not notice. He got stuck in a quagmire, and died. His violin was at Elsie’s house the whole time. So, Margaret goes to her house and takes the violin. Elnora then teaches herself to play and joins the orchestra.
All this time, she has been hunting moths in the Limberlost for the bird woman to sell so she can write a book about all the moths in the world. One day, Elnora is out moth hunting with her mother. Elnora meets a man named Philip Ammon and they become good friends. Philip used to live in the city, but he moved out once he got a fever to get better in the countryside with his uncle who is a doctor. Elnora moth hunts with Philip and they make a full moth collection for the bird woman, except for two yellow emperors! Finally, it is time for Elnora to graduate, she needs three dresses and does not have any of them. Her mother pretends that she is getting someone to make the dress for her. On the day of her graduation she tells Elnora her dress is on the bed. It is the same dress from last summer. Elnora is very upset and she goes to the Bird Woman who gives her one of Angel’s dresses to wear. She telegrams Angel and explains everything to her. Angel gives all of her old stuff to Elnora. Elnora has a violin recital and Billy, Mrs. and Mr. Sinton attend. Her mother peers in at the door and sees Elnora playing her dad’s violin. She is very upset, but soon gets over it. One day, Elnora’s mother was sweeping and she kills a Yellow Emperor even though Elnora asked her not to! Elnora is very upset because she told her mother she needed one. Then, Mrs. Comstock decided to do something crazy. In the middle of the night, she goes into the forest and lights some lanterns. Some terrible people from a club that makes illegal alcohol turns up, thinking the lanterns are summons. Mrs. Comstock shoes them all, except one, away. Together they catch moths for Elnora. They put them into her collection box and catch two Yellow Emperors. When Elnora wakes up in the morning, she finds the moths all eaten by a mouse and most of the moths in her collection destroyed by the ones Mrs. Comstock found. She does not tell her mother and Philip helps Elnora replace the moths. This second part of the book is my favorite. It just makes me feel that Elnora is finally getting some help with her moth hunting! Yet, we still have a third of the book left. This part of ‘A Girl of the Limberlost’ is a very interesting part. It is constantly changing perspectives, so you should pay very good attention. At the start, Philip receives a telegram that he has to go back to the city to take care of his dad who got sick. While Elnora is going away to teach for a little while to save up for college, Mrs. Comstock gives herself a total makeover. They even move houses! Elnora is very happy with her new house. The book then changes perspective and shows us Philip Ammon. He is at the city and is attending a ball with his betrothed, Edith Carr. She is dressed up like a Yellow Emperor. A real Yellow Emperor flies in the window! Philip catches it and mails it to Elnora. Edith is super upset. She makes a huge fuss and embarrasses Philip. She says they are never going to be married and throws her ring! Philip finds it and goes home. Philip is a bit sad, but otherwise fine with it. He travels back to Elnora with a ring his sister, Polly, picked out. He proposes to Elnora, but she says she needs time to think. Meanwhile, Edith is in the city feeling very sick. She wants Philip to come back. Her friend, Hart Henderson takes care of her and helps her. They find out where Philip is and go to the Limberlost. Elnora is wearing the ring Philip gave her and Edith thinks they are engaged. Elnora explains they are not yet and Edith tries to convince Elnora to give him back to her. Hart and Philip are trying to ‘fix’ Hart’s car, but it is not actually broken. Hart was just giving Edith sometime alone with Elnora. Polly and her betrothed, Tom are talking to Mrs. Comstock. In the end, Philip goes to the mechanic with the city people. He comes back and finds two notes, one for him and one for Mrs. Comstock. They read them, and find out Elnora has gone somewhere to think everything over, they do not know where. Elnora meanwhile has just gotten off a train and meets Freckles, or Terence O’Moore. She lives with him, Angel, and their children for a little while. She writes her mother to come over and she says she will be on the evening train. Meanwhile, Edith Carr is still weak and sick. She saw Elnora and is going to tell Philip. Philip is at the hospital and finally hears of Elnora's whereabouts. He comes on the same train as Mrs. Comstock, who brought Billy. He proposes to Elnora and she says yes! They later get married. Edith and Hart find a Yellow Emperor. They travel to where Elnora is and give it to her along with their well wishes for her marriage. I think they will also get married. Everyone is surprised, in a happy way and they all lived happily ever after. I do not think they include the matrimonial ceremony in the actual book, but Raine would love it anyway. This is definitely an amazing book, and I am looking forward to reading the prequel, ‘Freckles.’ A Girl of the Limberlost is an amazing book. It is overflowing with love and loneliness, hatred and pain, happiness and joy. I would fully recommend this book to any and all. If I had to pick a favorite part, it would be when Elnora’s mother starts to help her find moths. I would rate this book by Gene Stratton-Porter a ten out of ten. Elnora is such an interesting, kind, and loyal character, I would not like the book without her. For now, though, I will say goodbye to the Limberlost! Until we get the next book.
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December 25, 2018
My lower rating is for this edition in my Nook because the last page is 2,099 and it stops before the end of Her Father's Daughter. I have been reading for six months, and the ebook is incomplete.
I currently live in Indiana, and I wanted to read the books by this Hoosier author. This collection does have the complete novels of At the Foot of the Rainbow, A Daughter of the Land, Freckles, A girl of the Limberlost, and The Harvester. The ones I read were published more than 100 years ago so the style is often dated because it is much slower and the culture she represents has changed so much. As I was reading Her Father's Daughter with Linda's opinions about the threats of the Yellow Menace (and she includes the Brown and the Black,) I considered that was first published four or five generations ago, and it is currently "politically incorrect."
I currently live in Indiana, and I wanted to read the books by this Hoosier author. This collection does have the complete novels of At the Foot of the Rainbow, A Daughter of the Land, Freckles, A girl of the Limberlost, and The Harvester. The ones I read were published more than 100 years ago so the style is often dated because it is much slower and the culture she represents has changed so much. As I was reading Her Father's Daughter with Linda's opinions about the threats of the Yellow Menace (and she includes the Brown and the Black,) I considered that was first published four or five generations ago, and it is currently "politically incorrect."
April 6, 2021
GirL of the Limberlost was my introduction to Nature
When I was 7 years old I summit with my grandparents and Southern Missouri near Reel Foot Lake. He gave me this book, a butterfly net made out of an old fishing net, and cigar boxes with corks glued to the bottom. I learned how to catch, mount and position moths and butterflies from Elenora. This book taught me how to respect nature and to understand that each flower, Bush and tree shelters many species of wildlife. Enjoy nature. Don't destroy it.
When I was 7 years old I summit with my grandparents and Southern Missouri near Reel Foot Lake. He gave me this book, a butterfly net made out of an old fishing net, and cigar boxes with corks glued to the bottom. I learned how to catch, mount and position moths and butterflies from Elenora. This book taught me how to respect nature and to understand that each flower, Bush and tree shelters many species of wildlife. Enjoy nature. Don't destroy it.
October 19, 2019
Nature's Wonders
I read this book about 58 years ago in grade school. I've re-read it recently and it reminded me of the great hope it gave me in my youth and continued to give me hope today. For those that love nature and it's unending wonders and beauty I encourage you to read this book it will inspire you to sit in nature and be captivated by it. Let's hope we can leave a legacy like this for our future generations.
I read this book about 58 years ago in grade school. I've re-read it recently and it reminded me of the great hope it gave me in my youth and continued to give me hope today. For those that love nature and it's unending wonders and beauty I encourage you to read this book it will inspire you to sit in nature and be captivated by it. Let's hope we can leave a legacy like this for our future generations.
April 3, 2024
The story of The Girl of the Limberlost holds a special place in my heart because I agree up in a forest and loved the butterflies in our area! This was definitely what inspired me to learn how to play the violin! I love this story so much!!
November 7, 2019
I love these wholesome, uplifting stories with characters of integrity and grit.
August 12, 2021
A good old fashioned novel with characters and plot.
December 30, 2023
I love Ms. Porter's work, it is wholesome and interesting. I always feel refreshed when reading in her world.
October 16, 2015
From this book I only read A Girl of the Limberlost. I found it very dated. I did wonder if it was representative of fiction of it's time, like Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna, etc. It's supposed to have been very popular in its day. I wonder if that has something to do with the poor girl from the swamp overcoming all the city girls story line.
I was under the impression that it is a children's/young adult book. However, at one of the author's homes in Indiana it is considered one of her adult books.
Other Limberlost thoughts at the blog, Original Content.
I was under the impression that it is a children's/young adult book. However, at one of the author's homes in Indiana it is considered one of her adult books.
Other Limberlost thoughts at the blog, Original Content.
October 26, 2016
Second time I have read it and I liked it more the first time. Seems like she rushed throught the ending, maybe. Overall, a very sweet love story with many lines highlighted.
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