FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for books like The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy . But this tale -- set in England at the close of the seventeenth century -- is at once of a kind (Burnett's storytelling doesn't really change, whatever she's writing about) and utterly different (people with names like Clorinda talking in ...

After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's mansion on wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds. Then Mary uncovers a ke ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English- American playwright and author. She was best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). Her first story was published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1868. Her main writing talent was combining realistic detail of workingclass life with...