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Her own secret garden The author of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' wanted to be known for her adult novels, finds Jonathan Bate
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040404
Author:by Jonathan Bate
Frances Hodgson Burnett
by Gretchen Gerzina
Chatto & Windus, pounds 20, 359 pp
pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
THE SECRET GARDEN is one of the indisputable classics of children's literature. Frances Hodgson Burnett was also the author of a book that everybody has heard of but nobody now reads, Little Lord Fauntleroy. What is less well known is that she wrote over 50 novels, mostly for adults.
One does not readily associate her with contemporaries such as Zola and Gissing, but she shared their themes of poverty, class, marital strife and gritty realism. She would have been ...
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