The Frances Hodgson Burnett MEGAPACK ®. Frances Hodgson Burnett

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      FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

      COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Frances Hodgson Burnett Megapack is copyright © 2014 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved. Cover art copyright © 2014 by © Sergey Nivens / Fotolia.

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      The Secret Garden originally appeared in 1911.

      Little Lord Fauntleroy originally appeared in 1886.

      A Little Princess originally appeared in 1905.

      The Lost Prince originally appeared in 1915.

      A Lady of Quality originally appeared in 1896.

      The Land of the Blue Flower originally appeared in 1909.

      The Little Hunchback Zia originally appeared in 1916.

      Little Saint Elizabeth is taken from Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (1893).

      “The Story of Prince Fairyfoot” is taken from Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (1893).

      “The Proud Little Grain of Wheat” is taken from Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (1893).

      “Behind the White Brick” is taken from Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (1893).

      “Lodusky” originally appeared in 1877.

      “Mère Girauds Little Daughter” originally appeared in 1877.

      “Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame” originally appeared in 1877.

      “My Robin” originally appeared in 1912.

      “One Day at Arle” originally appeared in 1877.

      “The Pretty Sister of José” originally appeared in 1889.

      “Racketty-Packetty House” originally appeared in 1906.

      “Sara Crewe” originally appeared in 1888.

      “Seth” originally appeared in 1877.

      The Shuttle originally appeared in 1907.

      “Surly Tim” originally appeared in 1877.

      That Lass O’ Lowrie’s originally appeared in 1877.

      Theo originally appeared in 1877.

      T. Tembarom originally appeared in 1915

      Vagabondia originally appeared in 1884.

      The White People originally appeared in 1917.

      Louisiana originally appeared in 1880.

      The Good Wolf originally appeared in 1907.

      Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday originally appeared in 1908.

      The Cozy Lion originally appeared in 1907.

      “The Dawn of a Tomorrow” originally appeared in 1906.

      Emily Fox-Seton originally appeared in 1901.

      “Esmeralda” originally appeared in 1877.

      A Fair Barbarian originally appeared in 1881.

      The Head of the House of Coombe originally appeared in 1922.

      Robin originally appeared in 1921.

      His Grace of Osmonde originally appeared in 1897.

      In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim originally appeared in 1899.

      “In the Closed Room” originally appeared in 1904.

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1909), all of which are included in this volume.

      Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor, after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o’ Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children’s fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.

      Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and bought a home there in the 1890s where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1892, which caused a relapse of the depression she struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898 and married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. Towards the end of her life, she settled in Long Island, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, on Long Island.

      In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park’s Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.

      —John Betancourt

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