Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Standard Name: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Birth Name: Frances Eliza Hodgson
Indexed Name: F. Hodgson
Pseudonym: The Second
Pseudonym: Fannie E. Hodgson
Married Name: Frances Eliza Burnett
Indexed Name: Mrs Fanny Hodgson Burnett
Nickname: Dearest
Nickname: Fluffy
Used Form: F. H. Burnett
Writing during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, equally at home with both Britain and the USA, with their respective book trades and publishing practices, FHB began with magazine serials, then industrial novels, romance novels, and historical novels. She is best-remembered for her children's books, between which and her adult fiction the line is blurred rather than distinct. Both a highly professional and a popular writer, she is a remarkably astute commentator on the national characteristics of England and the United States. Her character-drawing (snobs, faithful servants, unspoilt children) is just stereotypical enough for instant appeal, while retaining a surprising capacity for original insight.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Friends, Associates Louisa May Alcott
LMA was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau , who taught science to her and her...
Friends, Associates Laurence Alma-Tadema
As the work at Wittersham progressed LAT struck up a friendship with Frances Hodgson Burnett , who rented the splendid Maytham Hall at Rolvenden nearby, and who became something of a mother-figure to her. She...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
On several occasions LAT wrote or signed letters to the Times, the newspaper of record, on topics of public interest. Her last two such publications took up the cause of individual women. She wrote...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
Given the coincidence of names in LAT 's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
She was depressed by the quality of the books her boys were reading, and said she wanted to give [her] children something that would encourage them to feel they could make a difference to what...
Publishing Frances Browne
The popularity of this work combined with the obscurity of Browne's identity caused many readers to assume that the tales were of ancient, perhaps unknown origin. After Frances Hodgson Burnett (ignorant of FB 's name)...
Education Agatha Christie
By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll
Education Kate Clanchy
As a child KC loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett 's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott
Literary responses Ella Hepworth Dixon
Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote admiringly to EHD about the first story in this book.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
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In a recent article, Emma Liggins found this collection shows great sympathy for the plight of single women, while being...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Friends, Associates Ménie Muriel Dowie
As a public literary figure MMD moved amongst the major writers of her day. At the Women Writers' Dinner of the New Vagabonds Club in June 1895, she spoke alongside Adeline Sergeant , Christabel Coleridge
Friends, Associates Sara Jeannette Duncan
In Washington, amid many social pleasures, SJD met Frances Hodgson Burnett and the columnist Abigail Dodge . She also developed a friendship with William Dean Howells and his family which continued sporadically for many years...
Friends, Associates Sara Jeannette Duncan
One of the friendships she enjoyed in India was with Mary Curzon (the American wife of the Viceroy); they were both friends of Frances Hodgson Burnett . Lady Curzon, who had been a model for...
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Edgeworth
Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME 's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott , Frances Hodgson Burnett
Textual Features Sarah Josepha Hale
Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...

Timeline

1910: British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett...

Writing climate item

1910

British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett published a novel which she originally intended for adults, but which became a children's classic: The Secret Garden.

March 1911: The Idler monthly (launched as a sixpenny...

Writing climate item

March 1911

The Idlermonthly (launched as a sixpenny magazine in 1892) ceased publication.

Texts

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Lady of Quality. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1896.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Ethel Franklin Betts. A Little Princess. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Dolly. Porter and Coates, 1877.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Haworth’s. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1879.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1899.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. “Introduction”. Victorian Tales for Girls, edited by Marghanita Laski, Pilot Press, 1947, pp. 7-12.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Reginald B. Birch. Little Lord Fauntleroy. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1886.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Robin. Frederick A. Stokes, 1922.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Sara Crewe. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1888.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. That Lass o’ Lowrie’s. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1877.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Head of the House of Coombe. Frederick A. Stokes, 1922.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and C. D. Williams. The Making of a Marchioness. Frederick A. Stokes, 1901.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Reginald B. Birch. The One I Knew Best of All. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1893.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Charles Robinson. The Secret Garden. Heinemann, 1911.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Graham Rust. The Secret Garden. Michael Joseph, 1986.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Shuttle. Frederick A. Stokes, 1907.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Frances Browne. “The Story of The Lost Fairy Book”. Granny’s Wonderful Chair, ACC Children’s Classics, 1999, pp. 5-8.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. Victorian Tales for Girls. Editor Laski, Marghanita, Pilot Press, 1947.