Freckles
Gene Stratton-Porter, Ruth Ives
Hardcover
(Junior Deluxe Editions / Doubleday, Jan. 1, 1957)
Freckles is a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. It is primarily set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, with brief scenes set in Chicago. The title character also appears briefly in Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost. The novel is marked by its frequent, detailed, and loving descriptions of the flora and fauna of the wilderness through the eyes of its innocent protagonist. The author, Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924), was an American author, early naturalist, nature photographer, and one of the first women to form a movie studio and production company, Gene Stratton-Porter Productions, Inc. She wrote several best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCall's. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world. The illustrator, Ruth Ives, also illustrated the Junior Deluxe Editions of Louisa May Alcottās books.