Girl of the Limberlost

gene stratton-porter

A Girl of the Limberlost, originally published in 1909, is one of Gene Stratton-Porter's most famous novels. The story is set in the disappearing wetlands and swamps of Indiana, where Stratton-Porter had grown up and which she loved. A Girl of the Limberlost has been made into a film four times, most recently as a made-for-TV movie in 1990. In addition to several other novels, Porter also wrote a number of nature books, essays, and poems, and was an accomplished wildlife photographer, focusing on the birds and moths of Limberlost Swamp.

Genres classicsfictionyoung adulthistorical fictionromancechildrensbook clubhistoricalnaturemiddle grade

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1909

Series

Limberlost

Places

indiana,

This edition

Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Published: July 19, 2006 by Applewood Books
ISBN: 9781557092922
ASIN: 1557092923
Language: English

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About the author

gene stratton-porter

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 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.