Frances hodgson burnett

The Secret Garden is a novel by British-American Frances Hodgson Burnett, originally published in serialised form in America between 1910-11.

The Secret Garden by Renee Graef

Author. Born Francis Eliza Hodgson at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. Her father died in 1853, leaving a widow and five children. Mrs. Hodgson tried to continue running her husband's wholesale firm but ultimately failed in part due to the effects of the American Civil War. With the promise of support from a...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Author of The Little Princess, and The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) When she was sixteen, she was brought from England to Tennessee by her fatherless, poverty stricken family. There she started to write stories in a cold little attic room, and they eventually made her rich and famous. She published over fifty books, but the most beloved are Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and Little Princess. She said of herself, "With the best that was in me, I have tried to write more happiness into the world."

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess (1905) was one of my favourite books as a child. The heroine, Sara Crewe, says early on: ‘Whenever I play I make up stories and tell them to myself…

I first saw The Secret Garden in a theater completely devoid of people who were not related to me. It was just me, my mother, my younger sister, and my father. This alone would have made me love the film. A whole movie theater to myself? My sister and I ran up and down the aisles. We sat separately from our parents, then switched to a third, still separate location halfway through the movie. It was an unforgettable experience for an impressionable young girl, made even more unforgettable by…

A "Princess Sara" in her picturesque hat, as in A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Christmas in the Fog, written for adults, is to be republished in Queens of the Abyss, an anthology of lost stories