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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 — 1,287,680 ratings — published 1911 — 6106 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 — 323,503 ratings — published 1905 — 25 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 3.91 avg rating — 24,848 ratings — published 1885 — 18 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 3.67 avg rating — 4,805 ratings — published 1901 — 6 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 — 3,363 ratings — published 1888 — 237 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 4.40 avg rating — 3,086 ratings — published 1911 — 56 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 — 3,300 ratings — published 1915 — 2 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,423 ratings — published 1906 — 281 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 4.37 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1978 — 54 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 Lady of Quality 3.37 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 1896 — 66 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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Series by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Emily Fox-Seton (1 book)
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3.65 avg rating — 4,956 ratings

A Lady of Quality (2 books)
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3.38 avg rating — 830 ratings

The Head of the House of Coombe (2 books)
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3.70 avg rating — 422 ratings

The Good Wolf (2 books)
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3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings

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Gemma Rovira Ortega (translator)

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings

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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

March 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962

25 votes, 12.0%

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951

18 votes, 8.7%

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911

18 votes, 8.7%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 277 pages, 1953

17 votes, 8.2%

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890

17 votes, 8.2%

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 146 pages, 1962

15 votes, 7.2%

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages, 1899

14 votes, 6.7%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages. 1935

14 votes, 6.7%

1984 by George Orwell, 268 pages, 1949

13 votes, 6.3%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages, 1961

12 votes, 5.8%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1960

11 votes, 5.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

10 votes, 4.8%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages, 1844

7 votes, 3.4%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, 212 pages, 1934

7 votes, 3.4%

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 240 pages, 1984

5 votes, 2.4%

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages, 1937

5 votes, 2.4%

208 total votes

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