POLYGENESIS
Sir,-I was pained to see that in the recent Listener interview with Ngaire homson_ you referred to: Pollyanna as "another L. «M.: Montgomery brainchild." As every scHoolgirl knows it was Miss Eleanor Porter who mothered that priggish product of a pen dipped in corn-syrup. To wish her on to L, -M. Montgomery is as unwarranted as saddling Dickens with little Lord Fauntlerov as well as Little Nell.
M.
BULLOCK
(Wellington)
Sir-May I draw to your attention an error in the article on Miss Ngaire Thomson in your issue of February 10? You state that "Pollyanna" is an L, M. Montgomery brain-child; this, however, is not so. The "Pollyanna" stories were written by three successive authorsEleanor H. Porter, Harriet Lummis Smith, and Elizabeth Barton.
ELIZABETH D.
NEWCOMBE
(Kaipara Flats).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 5
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129POLYGENESIS New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 5
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