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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) is a very prolific novelist, playwright and short-story writer of the English tongue who was born in England and who spent her lifetime between her home country and her country of adoption, the United States of America. She is famous for being the author of more than fifty works including the bestseller That Lass O’Lowrie’s, among many other successful novels. She is equally the author of a number of children’s classics such as the celebrated The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
On November 24th, 1849, in Manchester, Frances Hodgson was born to a family with little financial resources. The father soon died and the family, composed of a mother, three daughters and two sons, suffered from pecuniary difficulties before deciding to move to the United States. During the period after the death of her father, Frances lived with her grandmother who inculcated in her a passion for books and literature. This passion was further reinf
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
British-American novelist (1849–1924)
For the American socialite and writer, see Frances Hawks Cameron Burnett.
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| Born | Frances Eliza Hodgson (1849-11-24)24 November 1849 Cheetham, Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 29 October 1924(1924-10-29) (aged 74) Plandome Manor, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright |
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| Spouse | Swan Burnett (m. 1873; div. 1898)Stephen Townsend (m. 1900; div. 1902) |
| Children | 2 |
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
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In the Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett
By Gretchen H. Gerzina
Few people realize that The Secret Garden, the book most readers associate with Frances Hodgson Burnett, was only one of 53 novels she wrote and published, and that most of her books were for adults, not children. Although she had a lifetime of love for children and gardens, she would be amazed to know that this book is the one for which she is most remembered today—even though it was one that was closest to her heart.
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s love affair with gardens began when she was a small child living in Manchester, England. In 1852, when she was just three, her family moved to St. Luke’s Terrace, which backed onto fields owned by the Earl of Derby, leading Burnett to recall it later in life as the “back garden of Eden.” She remembered it as a place of gardens and perpetual summer, where a small child could daydream beneath the trees and beside the flowers, ignoring the industrial city that surroun