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Pollyanna
An excessively cheerful or optimistic person, from the name of the optimistic heroine created by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868–1920), American author of children's stories.
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
... , character in the juvenile novels of Eleanor Porter...
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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...treated Pollyanna. Porter wrote a number of popular novels. Pollyanna , which became an international best-seller, has been dramatized and filmed several times. The first sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up ( 1915 ), was by the original author, but after her death a number of other writers produced further Pollyanna...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... ( 1913 ) By Eleanor Porter ( 1868–1920 ). Pollyanna is an orphan who changes the lives of everyone around her with her ‘glad’ game; her name has become synonymous with unquenchable cheerfulness. There were twelve sequels by four authors, a vogue for ‘Glad Clubs’, and films in 1920 and 1960...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... ( 1913 ) By Eleanor Porter ( 1868–1920 ). Pollyanna is an orphan who changes the lives of everyone around her with her ‘glad’ game; her name has become synonymous with unquenchable cheerfulness. There were twelve sequels by four authors, a vogue for ‘Glad Clubs’, and films in 1920 and 1960...
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A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
... [Child. Lit.] The heroine of stories for children written by the American author Eleanor H. Porter ( 1868–1920 ). Pollyanna is a perpetually cheerful girl who teaches everyone she meets to play the ‘just being glad’ game: ‘the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what ’twas'. > Someone with an unflagging (and often excessively saccharine) cheerfulness, even in the most unpromising situations Those whose cup is half full are the world's optimists, the Pollyannas and the kind of people to be avoided at all...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... The cheerfully optimistic young heroine of the novel named after her ( 1913 ) by Eleanor H. Porter ( 1868–1920 ). Her full name is Pollyanna Whittier, and she is known as the ‘glad girl’ for her determination to remain cheerful whatever happens. She is orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to live with a grim spinster aunt, but melts the hearts of everyone she meets, no matter how sour and dour they may be. Her name has entered the language to describe anyone who is unduly optimistic or who is able to remain happy through self-delusion. You’re not...
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A Dictionary of Marketing (4 ed.)
... effect ( Pollyanna hypothesis ) The tendency to accept and recall pleasant, positive information more easily than that which is unpleasant or...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...bias . [Named after Pollyanna Whittier, the ‘glad girl’, whose blindly optimistic and Panglossian disposition always led her to look on the bright side of things, in the novels Pollyanna ( 1913 ) and Pollyanna Grows Up ( 1915 ) by the US writer Eleanor H(odgman) Porter ( 1868–1920...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... an excessively cheerful or optimistic person, from the name of the optimistic heroine created by Eleanor Hodgman Porter ( 1868–1920 ), American author of children's...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... . The cheerfully optimistic young heroine of the novel named after her ( 1913 ) by Eleanor H. Porter ( 1868–1920 ). Her full name is Pollyanna Whittier , and she is known as the ‘glad girl’ for her determination to remain cheerful whatever happens. She is orphaned at the age of 11, and sent to live with a grim spinster aunt, but melts the hearts of everyone she meets, however sour and dour. Her name has entered the language to describe anyone who is unduly optimistic or who is able to remain happy through I feel like an embarrassingly ...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Alana , Anna, bandanna, banner, Branagh, canna, canner, Diana, fanner, Fermanagh, Guyana, Hannah, Havana, hosanna, Indiana, Joanna, lanner, Louisiana, manna, manner, manor, Montana, nana, planner, Pollyanna, Rosanna, savannah, scanner, spanner, Susanna, tanner • Abner • Jaffna • Patna • caravanner • Africana , Afrikaner, Americana, ana, banana, Botswana, bwana, cabana, caragana, Christiana, Dana, darner, Edwardiana, garner, Georgiana, Ghana, Gloriana, Guiana, gymkhana, Haryana, iguana, Lana, lantana, liana, Lipizzaner, Ljubljana, Mahayana, mana,...
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Eleanor Hodgman Porter
