num_pages: 147
description: Burnett loved stories. Her only formal education was a dame school in Manchester, and so most of her reading was done outside school assignments, a self-educating process that would continue throughout her life. Her ability to quickly master literary conventions helps explain the frequent ease and speed with which she wrote, and in a variety of genres--short fiction, essays, novels, romances, adaptations for the stage. Her popularity in part grew from the desire and ability to please an audience which she showed in her early story-telling performances. According to Thwaite, Burnett's imagination made her restless--"the party" was always in another room; and it frequently led her to a dishonest denial of unpleasant realities in her life.
language: English
title: Frances Hodgson Burnett
titlecomplete: Frances Hodgson Burnett (Twayne's English Authors Series)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Twayne Pub