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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 — 1,314,068 ratings — published 1911 — 6096 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 — 332,669 ratings — published 1905 — 15 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 — 25,266 ratings — published 1885 — 2504 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 3.66 avg rating — 4,946 ratings — published 1901 — 384 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 — 3,378 ratings — published 1888 — 235 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 — 3,124 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 — 3,344 ratings — published 1915 — 733 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) 4.01 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1906 — 283 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 — 833 ratings — published 1978 — 52 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 3.36 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1896 — 1141 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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C.D. Williams (Illustrator)

3.65 avg rating — 5,102 ratings

A Lady of Quality (2 books)
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3.38 avg rating — 843 ratings

The Head of the House of Coombe (2 books)
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3.71 avg rating — 433 ratings

Emily Fox-Seton #1-2 (1 book)
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Gemma Rovira Ortega (translator)

3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings

The Good Wolf (2 books)
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3.38 avg rating — 37 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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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 331 pages, 1955

57 votes, 16.5%

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

44 votes, 12.8%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957

29 votes, 8.4%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1276 pages, 1844

28 votes, 8.1%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856

27 votes, 7.8%

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

24 votes, 7.0%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages, 1935

23 votes, 6.7%

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages, 1847

22 votes, 6.4%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages, 1854

20 votes, 5.8%

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 518 pages, 1891

19 votes, 5.5%

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, 1877

19 votes, 5.5%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 338 pages, 1603

16 votes, 4.6%

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 489 pages, 1848

14 votes, 4.1%

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 501 pages, 1817

3 votes, 0.9%

345 total votes

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