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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
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culture · British-American novelist (1849–1924) · dramaturge · writer · children's writer · novelist · short story writer · playwright · also Frances Hodgson Burnett, F. H. Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Frensis Hoxhson Bernet
Born 24 November 1849 · Died 29 October 1924 · Q276028
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Cokolwiek się zdarzy – powiedziała sobie – jedna rzecz wszakże się nie zmieni. Choćbym była księżniczką w łachmanach, jednakże i wtedy potrafię zachować swą godność książęcą. Łatwo być księżniczką, gdy jest się odzianą w złociste szaty, ale znacznie większy triumf – pozostać nią nawet wtedy, gdy nikt o tym nie wie.
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Nie wiem czemu to przypisać (...) ale zawsze, gdy ma mnie spotkać coś najgorszego, zdarza się nagle jakaś odmiana. Zupełnie, jak gdyby jakiś czarodziej wdawał się w tę sprawę.
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
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1936· 1 entry
A memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in Burnett's honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden
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1924· 6 entries
Died 1924-10-29.
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“Nie wiem czemu to przypisać (...) ale zawsze, gdy ma mnie spotkać coś najgorszego, zdarza się nagle jakaś odmiana. Zupełnie, jak gdyby jakiś czarodziej wdawał się w tę sprawę.”
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“W każdym razie, cokolwiek się zdarzy – powtarzała sobie Sara przez cały dzień – cokolwiek się zdarzy, to gdzieś na tym świecie jest jakaś dobra istota, która jest mi przyjacielem... przyjacielem, choćbym nawet nigdy nie dowiedziała się, kto to taki... choćbym nawet nie mogła mu nigdy podziękować... to jednak nie będę już się czuła tak samotną. Och, jakże poskutkowało moje czarnoksięskie zaklęcie!”
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“Cokolwiek się zdarzy – powiedziała sobie – jedna rzecz wszakże się nie zmieni. Choćbym była księżniczką w łachmanach, jednakże i wtedy potrafię zachować swą godność książęcą. Łatwo być księżniczką, gdy jest się odzianą w złociste szaty, ale znacznie większy triumf – pozostać nią nawet wtedy, gdy nikt o tym nie wie.”
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“Panno Mary, kapryśnico,Odwróć zagniewane lico!W twym ogródku rosną kwiatki,Róże, dzwonki i bławatki.”
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“Bo jak się urodziłeś, furtka do ogrodu została zamknięta, a klucz zakopany w ziemię. I ogród jest zamknięty od dziesięciu lat.”
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1915· 1 entry
And The Head of the House of Coombe and its sequel, Robin, were published seven years later
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1913· 1 entry
And sixth in 1914, and The Head of the House of Coombe was fourth in 1922
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1911· 1 entry
Burnett had The Secret Garden published
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1907· 1 entry
Returned permanently to the United States, having become a citizen in 1905, and built a home, completed in 1908, in the Plandome Park section of Plandome Manor on Long Island outside New York City
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1905· 2 entries
A Little Princess was published, after she had reworked the play into a novel
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That Burnett was a semi-vegetarian
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1898· 2 entries
Burnett divorced Swan Burnett
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And married Stephen Townsend two years later, but they divorced in 1902
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1896· 2 entries
The Shuttle was fourth in 1907 and fifth in 1908, T
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Was to become the first of a series of successful adult historical novels, which was followed in 1899 with In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim; and in 1901, she had published The Making of a Marchioness and The Me
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1894· 1 entry
Where she heard the news that her younger son Vivian was ill, so she quickly went back to the United States
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1893· 1 entry
Burnett published an autobiography, devoted to her elder son, titled The One I Knew Best of All
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1890· 1 entry
Which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life
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1888· 2 entries
Won a lawsuit in the UK over the dramatic rights to Little Lord Fauntleroy, establishing a precedent that was incorporated into British copyright law in 1911
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Returned to Manchester, where Burnett leased a large home off Cromwell Road, had it decorated, and then turned it over to cousins to run as a boarding house, after which Burnett moved to London, where she again took
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1887· 1 entry
Burnett travelled to The United Kingdom for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, which became the first of yearly transatlantic trips from the United States to United Kingdom
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1886· 1 entry
And made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular
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1885· 1 entry
Readers looked forward to new installments
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1884· 1 entry
Burnett began working on Little Lord Fauntleroy, with the serialization beginning the following year in St
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1881· 2 entries
While staying at the "Logan House" inn near Lake Lure, North Carolina; it became the longest-running play on Broadway in the 19th century
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“I hate & detest love stories, but it seems that you must have their grinning sentimental skeletons to hang your respectable humanity and drapery upon. (in a letter to her editor Richard Watson Gilder in summer, 1881)”
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1879· 2 entries
As well as writing a dramatic interpretation of That Lass o' Lowrie's in response to a pirated stage version presented in London
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Where she met Louisa May Alcott, and Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of children's magazine St
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1877· 1 entry
Was offered a contract to have That Lass o' Lowrie's published, which was doing well in its serialisation, and at that point, she made her husband her business manager
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1876· 1 entry
“Three thousand dollars would certainly have bought a house in Knoxville...I want my chestnuts off a higher bough. (in a letter to her sister Edith in April, 1876)”
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1872· 1 entry
And then went to Paris where, having agreed to marry Swan, she ordered an haute couture wedding dress to be made and shipped to Tennessee
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1865· 1 entry
The family emigrated to the United States and settled near Knoxville
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1863· 2 entries
“Some very fine day/ I will step up your way,/ At least, if so you agree./ With two tales I've been writing, full of murders and fighting --/So I hope you'll be glad to seem me. (in a letter to her cousin in March, 1863)”
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Eliza Hodgson was forced to sell their business and move the family once again to an even smaller home; at that time, Frances' limited education came to an end
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1853· 1 entry
When Frances was only four years old, the family fell on strained circumstances and emigrated to the United States 12 years later, settling in New Market, Tennessee
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1852· 1 entry
The family moved about a mile away to a newly built terrace, opposite St Luke's Church, with greater access to outdoor space
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1849· 1 entry
Born 1849-11-24.
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