Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, wrote The Secret Garden in 1911.

This is a classic story - from the novel by Secret Garden creator Frances Hodgson Burnett - so beautifully and lovingly crafted that it would be churlish to point out that some aspects are cliched.

Frances Hodgson Burnett might have written about a secret garden full of animals and plants in The Secret Garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett by Gretchen Gerzina (Pimlico, pounds 14.99)

FOLLOWING its huge success at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, the RSC's adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel The Secret Garden will transfer to London's Aldwych Theatre on February 17.

The latest family treat is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's book and is already proving a hit at the box office.

A decade after Queen Victoria died, a British-American writer named Frances Hodgson Burnett published a novel about two ill children who are healed by a mysterious garden.

Who would have thought Frances Hodgson Burnett had such a dark side?

ISBN 0-14-118054-4), Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden ([pounds]5.99.

Secret Garden, The Novel for children by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, published in 1911.

Among books published this year was an immensely popular story for children, Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The little gentleman-hero has long since lost any appeal for youngsters, but the illustrations by Reginald Bathurst Birch set a durable fashion for children's clothing, and 40 years later Mary Pickford played Fauntleroy in one of her box office successes.

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ONE of my daughter's favourite books as a child was The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett's magical tale of an orphan who helps to bring back to life a neglected garden.

SATURDAY 27 THE SECRET GARDEN C5 12.45PM Kate Maberly is superb as the sour-faced, unresponsive orphan claimed at Liverpool docks by blunt-speaking Maggie Smith in a striking, splendidly Gothic take on Frances Hodgson Burnett's story.

DRAWN TO TALES OF TRAGEDY As a child I loved the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for their tragic endings and also A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett for similar reasons - orphans, suffering and unrequited love were magnetic for me.