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Article: Frances Hodgson Burnett.(The Biography Shelf)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- The Bookwatch
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Rutgers University Press
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While during her life time (1849-1924), Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known for her many adult novels and plays, today it is for her children's books that she is remembered, especially for her masterpiece which has become a true classic and has never been out of print--The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life Of The Author of "The Secret Garden" is an impressive and seminal effort in which biographer Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ...