There were farms and country cottages close by and she became friendly with a family of market gardeners who kept pigs. Luke’s Terrace, which backed onto fields owned by the Earl of Derby, leading Burnett to recall it later in life as the “back garden of Eden.” She remembered it as a place of gardens and perpetual summer, where a small child could daydream beneath the trees and beside the flowers, ignoring the industrial city that surrounded this suburb of light and air. In 1852, when she was just three, her family moved to St. Although she had a lifetime of love for children and gardens, she would be amazed to know that this book is the one for which she is most remembered today-even though it was one that was closest to her heart.įrances Hodgson Burnett’s love affair with gardens began when she was a small child living in Manchester, England. In the Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnettįew people realize that The Secret Garden, the book most readers associate with Frances Hodgson Burnett, was only one of 53 novels she wrote and published, and that most of her books were for adults, not children.
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