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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040423
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Byline: VAL HENNESSY

Critic's choice AT THE height of her creative powers, Frances Hodgson Burnett became the world's highest-paid woman writer.

Remembered chiefly today for her children's classics The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, Frances (1849-1924) wrote 52 books, 13 plays and hundreds of short stories, believing her work materialised magically from some mysterious, powerful force.

In fact, the most powerful force was the need for cash, with Frances churning out stories to sell from the age of 17 and, once published, amassing huge wealth and literary ...

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