Frances Hodgson Burnett
Title | Frances Hodgson Burnett PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Gerzina |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813533827 |
Hugely successful in her own time for adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) would be astounded to find out she is remembered for a handful of books for children, but most of all for the enormously popular Secret Garden. This fascinating biography-the first to have the full cooperation of Burnett's descendants and relatives-examines her life with lively intelligence, sensitivity, and fascinating new, never-before-published material. Burnett's life was full of those reversals of fortune that mark her work. Following modest beginnings in mid-Victorian Manchester, she arrived in post-Civil War Tennessee at the age of fifteen with her widowed mother and two sisters. Burnett was the breadwinner of the family from the age of seventeen, eventually publishing a total of fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. She made and spent a fortune in her lifetime, was generous and profligate, yet anxious about money and obsessively hardworking. Constantly restless and inventive, Burnett's personal life was as complex as her professional one. Her first marriage to a southern doctor disintegrated as a result of her notorious flirtations and a scandalous affair, and her subsequent marriage to an English doctor turned actor suffered a similar fate. She understood the intensity and loneliness of the thoughtful child, but was herself a largely absent mother of two sons-overwhelmed by guilt when tragedy struck one of them; the other one never got over being the model for Little Lord Fauntleroy. A woman of contrasts and paradoxes, this quintessentially British writer was equally at home in the United States, which honored her with a memorial in Central Park. Frances Hodgson Burnett reinvented for herself and for generations to come in both countries the magic and the mystery of the childhood she never had.
The Secret Garden
Title | The Secret Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Hodgson B.F. |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 237 |
Release | |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 5521055061 |
«Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...
The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett
Title | The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Recchio |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2020-05-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1785273655 |
Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children’s stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnett’s novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title | Little Lord Fauntleroy PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | England |
ISBN | 1427061807 |
An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title, estate, and fortune.
The Shuttle
Title | The Shuttle PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2022-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"The Shuttle" deals with themes of intermarriages between wealthy American heiresses and impoverished British nobles. It is about wealthy American heiresses who could not make the best societal marriages because their family fortune came from new rather than old money. To solve this issue, they travelled to England. They married poor but Aristocratic husbands who needed money to finance their neglected estates.
The Secret Garden
Title | The Secret Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781402714597 |
Friendship, belief in oneself, and the power of nature come together to make magic in the secret garden.
Unearthing The Secret Garden
Title | Unearthing The Secret Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Marta McDowell |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1604699906 |
Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.