The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial form beginning in 1910, and rst published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and considered a classic of English children's literature. The story runs as follows: after losing her parents and being shipped from India to the Yorkshire Moors, Mary Lennox is terribly lonely living in her uncles gloomy mansion. But one day, she learns of a secret garden in the grounds and uncovers an old key which leads her to the hidden door. Slowly, she turns the key and enters a...

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887. The story develops as follows: Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful...

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English- American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her rst children's novel. Polly Hovarth writes that Little Lord Fauntleroy -was the Harry Potter of his time and Frances Hodgson Burnett was as celebrated for creating him as J.K. Rowling is for Potter.- The story runs as follows: young Ceddie (Freddie Bartholomew) lives with his American mother. His long-dead father was a British earl disowned by his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), who disapproved of all Americans. With his sons dead, the earl decides to recognize Ceddie as his...