Mary Marie

"Mary Marie" by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter is a story set in the early 1900s, where a spirited thirteen-year-old named Mary Marie Anderson lives between the homes of her divorced parents. As Mary with her father and Marie with her mother, she journeys to understand her place within these separate worlds. Told through Mary Marie’s diary entries, the story is filled with her curious observations about her parents' differences, and her desire to turn her life into a grand adventure. Readers see Mary Marie grapple with the complexities of her family situation and how it shapes who she is, as she divides her time between two distinct parental influences during a time when divorce was uncommon.