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Beyond the Secret garden: the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

By Ann , BURNETT , Frances Hodgson;Thwaite

Book information

Publisher
Pan Macmillan UK;Bello
Year
2014
ISBN
9781447253068, 144725306X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7650134 bytes)
Pages
366 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1849-1924;Women authorsAmerican -- 19th century -- BiographyAmerican -- 19th century -- Biography;AuthorsAmerican--19th century;Biographies;BurnettAmerican--19th century;Women authorsAmerican;AuthorsAmerican;Women authorsAuthorsFrances Hodgson

Description

Most people have heard of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and of The Secret Garden. Yet few people realize that the same woman wrote both books, 25 years apart, and was considered, along with Henry James, one of the leading writers in America on the strength of the adult novels which made her name in the 1870s and 1880s. Frances Hodgson Burnett's favourite theme in fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she emigrated with her family to Tennessee at the close of the Civil War. On the surface, her life was extremely successful. She played the roles of Famous Writer and Fairy Godmother with enthusiasm, but happiness eluded her. She was always waiting for the party, but it went on in other rooms.

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