Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-born American novelist and playwright, born on November 24, 1849 in Cheetham, Manchester, England.

Frances Hodgson Burnett penned adult novels, children’s books, and short stories — 52 novels and 13 plays — and produced works for the stage. At one point she wrote six books in 10 years ...

THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER.; BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Share full article Jan. 4, 1880 The New York Times Archives ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett lived in Great Maytham Hall, Kent, between 1898 and 1907 where the gardens inspired her most famous novel. Now, the three-bedroom house on the estate is for sale.

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden gave me the exact phrase I wanted: “Perhaps the leaves are beginning to break out and uncurl—and perhaps — the gray is changing and a green ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-born author of “The Secret Garden,” set her first American novel, “Louisiana,” in Hot Springs. Her title character, Louisiana, a Madison County lass ...

Author Frances Hodgson Burnett's full manuscript of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" -- reunited for the first time in nearly a century -- will be part of an exhibition opening Monday, Nov. 15, in the Main ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. Her father, an ironmonger, died when she was three and the family was soon impoverished.

As a new film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel The Secret Garden is being released digitally, I look back at Agnieszka Holland and Caroline Thompson’s 1993 iconic version ...