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Porter, Linn Boyd

author. He is a novelist of Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular, although severely criticised from a literary point of view as well as from an ethical standpoint. Among them are Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of Ellen; A Black Adonis; and Out of Wedlock.

PORTER, MRS. LYDIA ANN [EMER- SON], educator, author, was born Oct. 14, 1816, in Newburyport, Mass. She is an educator of Springfield, Vt.; and the author of Uncle Jerry's Letters to Young Mothers; and The Lost Will.

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