WRITER

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

1872 - 1958

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958) was an American writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eleanor Hallowell Abbott has received more than 65,778 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott is the 6,228th most popular writer, the 10,834th most popular biography from United States and the 804th most popular American Writer.

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66k
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42.56
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
16
Languages Editions (L)
4.10
Effective Languages (L*)
2.36
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Notable Works

Little Eve Edgarton

Eve Edgarton is not who she seems to be. A short encounter with Mr. Barton shows that first impressions are not always right or indicative of ones seemingly obvious preference or ones proclivity

1914

The Indiscreet Letter

2006

Molly Make-Believe

illness, kindness, recovery

Recovering from a long illness, Boston businessman Carl Stanton is unable to accompany his fiancée Cornelia on a mid-winter trip to warm and sunny Jacksonville. Lonely, bored, and disappointed in Cornelia’s lack of affection, Carl decides to answer an advertisement from the Serial-Letter Company, which promises real letters, delivering comfort and entertainment, from imaginary persons. Carl signs up for their love letter program, thinking he might have a bit of fun, and teach his fiancée a lesson in the process. But he never expects to be so utterly charmed and entertained as he is by his letter writer, “Molly Make-Believe.” As the winter drags on and Cornelia’s letters grow sparse and impersonal, Carl and Molly strike up a lively correspondence, and he finds himself falling in love with her. Carl becomes determined to uncover Molly’s true identity. But will she be everything he imagines her to be? Does she feel what he feels, or is she just playing a part? And what will Cornelia have to say about this when she comes home? Originally written in 1910 by one of the early twentieth century’s most prolific romantic authors, Molly Make-Believe is a sweet, old-fashioned romance delivered with Eleanor Hallowell Abbott’s sparkling wit and style, and sure to delight fans of classic romance.

1910

The White Linen Nurse

Classic Literature, Fiction

From the book:The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached. Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapaci-tated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth. The sensation certainly was very unpleasant. Looking back thus on the three spine-curving, chest-cramping, foot-twinging, ether-scented years of her hospital training, it dawned on the White Linen Nurse very suddenly that nothing of her ever had felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression! Impulsively she sprang for the prim white mirror that capped her prim white bureau and stood staring up into her own entrancing, bright-colored Novia Scotian reflection with tense and unwonted interest. Except for the unmistakable smirk which fatigue had clawed into her plastic young mouth-lines there was certainly nothing special the matter with what she saw.

1913

Molly Make-Believe

Fiction, romance, general, Young women, fiction, Correspondence -- Fiction

Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a 'ridiculous circular' which she states is very apropos of his sentimental passion for letters. In a sudden fit of mischief, malice and rheumatism, Carl decides to respond to the circular which results in bringing about the necessary distraction in a flurry of letters that do ease Carl's boredom and pain but also bring him something else that he never quite expected. *summary by Kehinde of Librivox*

1911

Rainy week

Fiction, humorous, general, New england, fiction

1921