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Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1901 The marriage took place in Genoa , Italy, and the couple went to Pegli for their honeymoon, where they endured two weeks of steady rain. Burnett's biographer Gretchen Gerzina writes of the marriage, "it was the biggest mistake of her life". [ 39 ]
It also offers editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war, and some pointed social commentary . Burnett wrote a 1922 sequel to The Head of the House of Coombe , Robin [2] , which completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe, Donal and Feather.
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911).
Its author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, lived at Great Maytham Hall from 1898 to 1907, where she found the old walled garden dating from 1721 overgrown and neglected. [6] By her own account, aided by a robin, Burnett discovered the door hidden amongst the ivy, and began the restoration of the garden, which she planted with hundreds of roses.
The Secret Garden is a 1949 American drama film. [2] [3] It is the second screen adaptation of the classic 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.The first was a silent version released in 1919.
Queen Silver-Bell Book Cover.. Queen Silver-Bell is the first in a series of four children's books by Frances Hodgson Burnett with illustrations by Harrison Cady.. In the first book the queen of the fairies, Queen Silver-Bell, loses her "temper" (which most people do not know is really a fairy [1]) and becomes known from then on as Queen Crosspatch.
The Secret Garden is a 1975 British television adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel of the same name. Adapted, produced and directed by Dorothea Brooking, it was first broadcast on BBC 1 in seven 30-minute episodes. [1] This is the only BBC adaptation of the novel known to exist in its entirety.
Reginald Bathurst Birch (May 2, 1856 – June 17, 1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion.