Author

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Burnett’s The Secret Garden is about a sour child, a locked garden, and the slow work of paying attention. The magic, such as it is, looks a great deal like care.

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1911 · Children's books · Novel

Mary Lennox arrives at a Yorkshire manor and finds a garden no one is allowed to enter. Tending it changes her, and the cousin shut in another room.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children's books · Novel

Little Lord Fauntleroy was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in New York. Little Lord Fauntleroy was also published that year in November by Frederick Warne & Co.