Frances hodgson burnett

by Herbert Rose Barraud carbon print published 1888 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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

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...

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

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

A Little Princess (Penguin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett - ISBN 10: 0142437018 - ISBN 13: 9780142437018 - Penguin Publishing Group - 2002 - Softcover

A new film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden opens today. First published in 1911, the novel foregrounds Edwardian beliefs about the importance of gardens that still resonate.

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…