Frances Hodgson Burnett
English-American playwright and author (1849-1924) · United States · Writers · Died at 74
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Something wrong?She wrote the children's stories that became shorthand for transformation: the sullen girl who finds a hidden garden, the orphan who becomes a princess, the boy in a velvet suit. Three novels still read more than a century later, each one a fable about what changes when someone believes in you.
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, Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too.
Eh!” she said, “but you are like an old woman. Don’t you care?”“It doesn’t matter,” said Mary, “whether I care or not.”“You are right enough there,” said Mrs. Medlock. “It doesn’t.
So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.
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About this person
Frances Hodgson was four when her father died in Manchester, and the family's fortunes collapsed with him. They emigrated to Tennessee in 1865, where at 19 she began selling stories to magazines to keep them afloat. She married Swan Burnett in 1873, had two sons, and published her first novel to good reviews before Little Lord Fauntleroy made her a children's literature phenomenon in 1886. The 1890s brought wealth and adult novels, but also her elder son Lionel's death from tuberculosis in 1890, which pulled her back into the depression she'd fought most of her life. She divorced in 1898, remarried and divorced again by 1902, and spent her later years between England and New York. The Secret Garden came in 1911, written at the English home she'd bought a decade before. She died in Nassau County in 1924; twelve years later they put a statue of Mary and Dickon in Central Park.
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