page_title: Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Movie poster for the 1918 film How Could You, Jean?
context_page_description: Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd was an American author of the early 20th century. She published at least 10 novels, mostly written for young women.
context_section_description: Eleanor began her professional career in New York City as a writer and editor for the New York Sun, specializing in fashion writing. Her novel In Vanity Fair drew heavily from her coverage of fashion in Paris and New York. She published extensively in magazines, including Collier's, The Girl's Own Paper, Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and Everybody's Magazine, typically in serial format. Her fictional novels often follow the same formula as the Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm series, in which a young girl, often an orphan, tries to improve the lives of adults through pluck and daring.
  Three of Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd's novels were made into silent films, Pegeen (1920), How Could You Jean? (1918), and For Love of Mary Ellen (1915). The most famous of these, How Could You Jean?, was directed by William Desmond Taylor and starred Mary Pickford. It was released in 1918.
caption: Poster from How Could You Jean?, 1918
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