Harriet Lummis Smith (1866–1947)

This book mainly focuses on Pollyanna and Jimmy’s first year of marriage. It feels a bit episodic, a chain of little household incidents, but tied together with Pollyanna’s usual ability to find something to be glad about in anything. It doesn’t shy away from serious issues like neglected children, family breakup, threatened suicide, death, and eventually war. BUT, hilariously, pregnancy is taboo, referred to obliquely as a secret that makes the mother glow with happiness. Harriet Lummus Smith does quite a good job of carrying on the Pollyanna tradition but with a heavier hand than the original.… (más)