Frances Hodgson Burnett is an author who immigrated to the U.S. from England when she was 16 years old.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ Her literary successes include, The Secret Garden, Lass O’ Lowries,, and A Fair Barbarian.http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/frances-hodgson-burnett/ Her stories appeared in magazines such as Scribner’s Monthly and Harper’s Bazaar. She had many positive reviews for her work, but it was not until 1886 that the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy became a best-seller.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/ She also wrote a play that she co-authored with William Gillette called Esmeralda.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/ Burnett explored Spiritualism, Theosophy, and Christian Science, some of which she incorporated into her novels.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/ She wrote a memoir, The One I Knew Best Of All, in 1883.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/

Born in Manchester, England in 1849, Burnett was the eldest of five children.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ After the death of her father, a reversal in the family’s fortunes caused her mother to move the family to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin. She married Dr. Swan Burnett in 1873 and had two sons, Lionel (1874) and Vivian (1876).http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ The couple divorced in 1898, after the death of the oldest son in 1890. In 1901, Burnett married Stephen Townshed and moved to Long Island, NY. She died on October 29, 1924, and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/

Burnett began her career with a story published in St. Nicholas Magazine.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/ In the beginning, she lacked adequate writing materials and would write stories on the back of old notebooks.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ Her writing eventually became successful. She wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy for her youngest son and modeled the main character after him.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ The books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden were inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122364/ She wrote and dedicated the book The White People to her son Lionel.http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/

"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden." — Frances Hodgson Burnetthttp://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/frances-hodgson-burnett/

"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." — excerpt from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-secret-garden/quotes.html

• 1868: Hearts and Diamonds, Miss Carruther's Engagementhttp://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/frances-hodgson-burnett/

• 1872: One Day At Arle, One Quiet Episode

• 1873: Dorothea, The Woman who Saved Me

• 1877: That Lass o' Lowries, Notwithstanding

• 1886: Little Lord Fauntleroy

• 1896: A Lady of Quality

• 1911: The Making of a Marchioness, The White People

• 1915: The Little Hunchback Zia, The Pretty Sister of Jose, The Dawn of a Tomorrow

• 1922: Robin, The Head of the House of Combe