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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
American author (1872–1958)
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- Game Design (1)
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Eleanor Abbott (2) · Candy Land (2) · board game (2) · polio (2) · children's entertainment (1) · game history (1) · women inventors (1) · Milton Bradley (1) · children's game (1) · nostalgia (1)
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958) was an American writer. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal.
📰 Related News (2)
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🇺🇸 Overlooked No More: Eleanor Abbott, the Creator of Candy Land
She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak....
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🇺🇸 Tracing the Sweet Origins of Candy Land and Its Creator
The writers of an Overlooked obituary about the game’s creator recount how they stumbled upon her and then proceeded to reconstruct her life....
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