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"Hugely successful in her own time for adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) would be astounded to find that she is remembered for a handful of books for children, but most of all for The Secret Garden, which has been enormously popular for generations. This biography - the first to have the full cooperation of Burnett's descendents and relatives - examines her life with lively intelligence, sensitivity, and fascinating new, never-before-published material." "Burnett's life was full of those reversals of fortune that mark her work. Following modest beginnings in mid-Victorian Manchester, she arrived in post-Civil War Tennessee at the age of fifteen with her widowed mother and two sisters. Burnett was the breadwinner of the family from the age of seventeen, eventually publishing a total of fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. She made and spent a fortune in her lifetime, was generous and profligate, yet anxious about money and obsessively hardworking." "Constantly restless and inventive, Burnett had a personal life as complex as her professional one. Her first marriage to a southern doctor disintegrated as a result of her notorious flirtations and a scandalous affair, and her subsequent marriage to an English doctor-turned-actor suffered a similar fate. She understood the intensity and loneliness of the thoughtful child, but was herself a largely absent mother of two sons - overwhelmed by guilt when tragedy struck one of them; the other never got over being the model for Little Lord Fauntleroy."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Biography of the author. At pains to explain she was not just a children's writer (I have The Shuttle on my TBR although I'm worrying that it's much darker than I'd realised now I've read the biog), this also goes to great pains to record every year of the subject's life. There are a few clunky passages and while workmanlike, it didn't really set me alight and looking to gallop through it, like a good biography can for me (cf Cecil Beaton or any of the Holroyds)
But a well researched and put together book with a lot of information and great photographs. ( )