About the book and the author

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The secret garden is a novel written by American author Francis Hodgson Burnett and published in book form in 1911. However, it has previously been published by parts in The American Magazine . The story of self-healing became a classic in English Literature and is considered to be among Burnett's best work.

Francis Hodgson Burnett

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Born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter of a family of two boys and three girls. After the death of her father when she was three years old, the Hodgsdons experienced serious financial difficulties. When I was a child, I would write little stories on old notebooks, since I could not afford the proper writing materials. In 1865, the family moved to Tennessee, where they lived in a log cabin and the French teenager created a small school. He began to send stories to women's magazines and at a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 he married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two children: Lionel, born in 1874, and Vivian, born in 1876, but the marriage was not happy. His youngest son, Vivian, asked for something for young children to read, so Frances wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and modeled the main character. In 1890, the tragedy occurred when his eldest son, Lionel, died of influenza. Frances and Swan separated and finally divorced in 1898, and she remarried Stephen Townshend. Frances moved to Long Island, New York in 1901 and there she began to write her two most famous stories: "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden", inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening. She started quite eccentric in her old age, but delighted in her grandchildren. Frances Hodgson Burnett died on October 29, 1924.