Frances Hodgson Burnett
Subtitle: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: March 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780813538259
Subjects: Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Women
First sentence: IT MIGHT SEEM THAT ONLY the most desperate and naive of English widows could have believed it was a good idea to take her five children from economically depressed Manchester to war-ravaged Tennessee in the spring of 1865-but then where could an impoverished widow take her family?