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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020512
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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, on 24 November 1849. After the death of her father in 1854, the family suffered hardship and in 1865 emigrated to the US, settling in Tennessee. In 1868 Hodgson managed to place a story with `Godey's Lady's Book'. Within a few years she was being published regularly in journals such as `Harper's' and several of her novels, including `Little Lord Fauntleroy', her most successful book, first appeared as a serialisation. This extract is taken from `The Secret Garden', published in 1909. Hodgson Burnett died in Long Island, New ...

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