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Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release : 1925
Genre : England
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Book Rating : 807/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Little Lord Fauntleroy by : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Download or read book Little Lord Fauntleroy written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This book was released on 1925. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title, estate, and fortune.
Author : Jackie C. Horne
Release : 2011-07-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 888/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden by : Jackie C. Horne
Download or read book Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden written by Jackie C. Horne. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their writing, and situate the novel in historical and theoretical contexts. These essays push beyond the themes that have tended to occupy the majority of academic scholars who have written about The Secret Garden to date. In doing so, they approach the text from theoretical perspectives that allow new light to illuminate old debates. Scholars and students of children's literature, women's literature, transcontinental literature, and the Victorian/Edwardian period will find in this collection refreshing new looks at a children's classic.
Author : Ann Thwaite
Release : 1991
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Waiting for the Party by : Ann Thwaite
Download or read book Waiting for the Party written by Ann Thwaite. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the author of Secret Garden.
Author : Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Release : 1990-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 055/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Frances Hodgson Burnett by : Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Download or read book Frances Hodgson Burnett written by Angelica Shirley Carpenter. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the author of many popular novels and plays for both adults and children, including the well-known "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Secret Garden."
Author : Gretchen Gerzina
Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 827/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Frances Hodgson Burnett by : Gretchen Gerzina
Download or read book Frances Hodgson Burnett written by Gretchen Gerzina. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
