Frances Hodgson Burnett

See also: Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett , of its name of young girl Frances Eliza Hodgson, born the November 24th 1849 with Manchester and dead the October 24th 1924 with Plandome in the State of New York, is a British, known novelist to be one of the pionnières of the novel of training for children.

Biography

His/her father dies in 1853, leaving his family in an extreme misery. This period of its life had a great impact on the reasons for its existence and its conscience: in several of its novels, she speaks about poverty and the differences between the social classes. In 1865, it emigrates with its family with the the United States, in the Tennessee. She writes novels having as a subject childhood, which made it really known as of 1886, with the publication of her very first book, the Small Lord Fauntleroy ( Little Lord Fauntleroy ). Thereafter, many its novels for children and adults became known and recognized.

Novels

On forty novels, three have a world famous:
  • the Small Lord Fauntleroy ( Little Lord Fauntleroy ) appeared in 1886.
  • the Small Princess ( has Little Princess ) appeared in 1905 and adapted several times to the cinema like for televised series of Japanese animation, Princesse Sarah.
  • the secret Garden ( Secret The Garden ) appeared in 1911 and adapted to the cinema by Agnieszka Holland in 1993.

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