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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Born

in Cheetham, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, The United Kingdom

November 24, 1849

Died

October 29, 1924

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan M. Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Bu ...more

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	The Secret Garden 4.17 avg rating — 1,346,225 ratings — published 1911 — 5556 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Princess 4.23 avg rating — 336,709 ratings — published 1905 — 3259 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Lord Fauntleroy 3.92 avg rating — 25,685 ratings — published 1885 — 2242 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's 4.12 avg rating — 3,403 ratings — published 1888 — 212 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Garden / A Little Princess 4.41 avg rating — 3,175 ratings — published 1911 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Prince 3.84 avg rating — 3,368 ratings — published 1915 — 621 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of a Marchioness 3.61 avg rating — 2,878 ratings — published 1901 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II (Emily Fox-Seton #1-2) 3.72 avg rating — 2,267 ratings — 285 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anne Sebba (Goodreads Author) (Preface) 4.02 avg rating — 1,511 ratings — published 1906 — 258 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Complete Books: The Secret Garden / A Little Princess / Little Lord Fauntleroy 4.38 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 1978 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett (?)

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

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“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring

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“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

tags: a-little-princess, frances-hodgson-burnett, inspirational, princess

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Polls

January 2017 New School Classic Poll

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - 258 pgs, 1989

47 votes, 19.3%

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - 218 pgs, 1996

38 votes, 15.6%

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 242 pgs, 1902

34 votes, 13.9%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - 412 pgs, 1905

25 votes, 10.2%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham - 400 pgs, 1945

17 votes, 7.0%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922

15 votes, 6.1%

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 184 pgs, 1946

15 votes, 6.1%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984

12 votes, 4.9%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson - 240 pgs, 1919

10 votes, 4.1%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 198 pgs, 1940

8 votes, 3.3%

The Reivers: A Reminiscence by William Faulkner - 320 pgs, 1962

7 votes, 2.9%

The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, 320 pgs, 1964

6 votes, 2.5%

The Vagabond by Colette - 252 pgs, 1910

6 votes, 2.5%

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, 285 pgs, 1934

4 votes, 1.6%

244 total votes

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