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Secret Garden, The

I.	About the Author



II.	Overview



III.	Setting



IV.	Themes and Characters



V.	Literary Technique



VI.	Topics for Discussion



VII.	Questions

Literature Guide - Secret Garden, The

Burnett, Frances Hodgson Published 1911

I About the Author

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born Frances Eliza Hodgson on November 24, 1849, in Manchester. In 1865 the family's ironmongery failed, triggering the Hodgsons' move to Knoxville, Tennessee, in the United States. Burnett began writing to supplement the family income, and by the time she was 20 she was writing and publishing as many as six short stories a month in a wide array of potboiler magazines. Soon Burnett's work was accepted by established magazines such as Scribner's and Harper's; her commercial success financed the first of many trips back to England. In 1873, in Tennessee, she married Dr Swan Burnett, a prominent physician. Frances Hodgson Burnett was unhappy in Tennessee, however, and persuaded one of her editors to advance her enough money to move to Paris with her husband and young son, Lionel, in 1874. ...


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