Frances Hodgson Burnett

Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson - 1849–1924, American author, b. Manchester, England. In 1865 she went to Knoxville, Tenn. with her family. She is famous for her children's books, particularly Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886; successfully dramatized by the author in 1888), Sara Crewe (1888), and The Secret Garden (1911).

See biography by A. Thwaite (1974).

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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 378 pgs.

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Chapter I There is No One Left

Chapter II Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Chapter III Across the Moor

Chapter IV Martha

Chapter V the Cry in the Corridor

Chapter VI "There Was Some One Crying -- There Was!"

Chapter VII the Key of the Garden

Chapter VIII the Robin Who Showed the Way

Chapter IX the Strangest House Any One Ever Lived In

Chapter X Dickon

Chapter XI the Nest of the Missel Thrush

Chapter XII "Might I Have a Bit of Earth?"

Chapter XIII "I Am Colin"

Chapter XIV a Young Rajah

Chapter XV Nest Building

Chapter XVI "I Won't!" Said Mary

Chapter XVII a Tantrum

Chapter XVIII "Tha' Munnot Waste No Time"

Chapter XIX "It Has Come!"

Chapter XX "I Shall Live Forever--And Ever--And Ever!"

Chapter XXI Ben Weatherstaff

Chapter XXII When the Sun Went Down

Chapter XXIII Magic

Chapter XXIV "Let Them Laugh"

Chapter XXV the Curtain

Chapter XXVI "It's Mother!"

Chapter XXVII in the Garden
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 274 pgs.

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List of Illustrations: From Drawings by Reginald B. Birch

Chapter I: A Great Surprise

Chapter II: Cedric's Friends

Chapter III: Leaving Home

Chapter IV: In England

Chapter V: At the Castle

Chapter VI: The Earl and His Grandson

Chapter VII: At Church

Chapter VIII: Learning to Ride

Chapter IX: The Poor Cottages

Chapter X: The Earl Alarmed

Chapter XI: Anxiety in America

Chapter XII: The Rival Claimants

Chapter XIII: Dick to the Rescue

Chapter XIV: The Exposure

Chapter XV: His Eighth Birthday
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The Dawn of a To-Morrow
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 158 pgs.

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Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 114 pgs.

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The Shuttle
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 514 pgs.

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The Shuttle

Chapter II: A Lack of Perception

Chapter III: Young Lady Anstruthers

Chapter IV: A Mistake of the Postboy's

Chapter V: On Both Sides of the Atlantic

Chapter VI: An Unfair Endowment

Chapter VII: On Board the "Meridiana"

Chapter VIII: The Second-Class Passenger

Chapter IX: Lady Jane Grey

Chapter X: Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?

Chapter XI: I Thought You Had All Forgotten

Chapter XII: Ughtred

Chapter XIII: One of the New York Dresses

Chapter XIV: In the Gardens

Chapter XV: The First Man

Chapter XVI: The Particular Incident

Chapter XVII: Townlinson & Sheppard

Chapter XVIII: The Fifteenth Earl of Mount Dunstan

Chapter XIX: Spring in Bond Street

Chapter XX: Things Occur in Stornham Village

Chapter XXI: Kedgers

Chapter XXII: One of Mr. Vanderpoel's Letters

Chapter XXIII: Introducing G. Selden

Chapter XXIV: The Political Economy of Stornham

Chapter XXV: We Began to Marry Them,'My Good Fellow!

Chapter XXVI: What It Must Be to You -- Just You!

Chapter XXVII: Life

Chapter XXVIII: Setting Them Thinking

Chapter XXIX: The Thread of G. Selden

Chapter XXX: A Return

Chapter XXXI: No, She Would Not

Chapter XXXII: A Great Ball

Chapter XXXIII: For Lady Jane

Chapter XXXIV: Red Godwyn

Chapter XXXV: The Tidal Wave

Chapter XXXVI: By the Roadside Everywhere

Chapter XXXVII: Closed Corridors

Chapter XXXVIII: At Shandy's

Chapter Xxxix: On the Marshes

Chapter LX: Don't Go on with This

Chapter XLI: She Would Do Something

Chapter XLII: In the Ballroom

Chapter XLIII: His Chance

Chapter XLIV: A Footstep

Chapter XLV: The Passing Bell

Chapter XLVI: Listening

Chapter XLVII: " I Have No Word or Look to Remember "

Chapter XLVIII: The Moment

Chapter Xlix: At Stornham and at Broadmorlands

Chapter L: The Primeval Thing
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A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, As Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff But Not Presented to the World of Fashion through the Pages of the Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 370 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Twenty-Fourth Day of November in the Year 1685

Chapter II: In Which Sir Jeoffry Encounters His Offspring

Chapter III: Wherein Sir Jeoffry's Boon Companions Drink a Toast

Chapter IV: Lord Twemlow's Chaplain Visits His Patron's Kinsman, And Mistress Clorinda Shines on Her Birthday Night

Chapter V: "Not I,"She Said. "There Thou Mayest Trust Me. I Would Not Be Found Out"

Chapter VI: Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered a Miniature

Chapter VIII: Two Meet in the Deserted Rose-Garden, and the Old Earl of Dunstanwolde is Made a Happy Man

Chapter IX: "I Give to Him the Thing He Craves with All His Soul-- Myself."

Chapter X: "Yes--I Have Marked Him"

Chapter XI: Wherein a Noble Life Comes to an End

Chapter XII: Which Treats of the Obsequies of My Lord of Dunstan Wolde, of His Lady's Widowhood, and of Her Return To Town

Chapter XIII: Wherin a Deadly War Begins

Chapter XIV: Containing the History of the Breaking of the Horse Devil, and Relates the Returning of His Grace of Os Monde from France

Chap Ter XV: In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again a Tropby He Had Lost

Chapter XVI: Dealing with That Which Was Done in the Panelled Parlor

Chapter XVII: Wherein His Grace of Osmonde's Courier Arrives From France

Chapter XVIII: My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone and Writes

Chapter XIX: A Piteous Story is Told, and the Old Cellars Walled In

Chapter XX: A Noble Marriage

Chapter XXI: An Heir is Barn

Chapter XXII: Mother Anne

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV: The Doves Sat Upon the Window-Ledge and Lowly Cooed And Cooed
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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ("Burnett, Frances Hodgson" begins on p. 89)
by Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard. 594 pgs.

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The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change (Chap. 7 "Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: Multiple Cures, Multiple Processes of Cure")
by Barbara Almond. 208 pgs.

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How do people change? Longing for personal growth and transformation is a central theme of our time. In psychotherapy we work to change the dynamics behind people's symptoms and conflicts. Writers, too, are fascinated by this theme, and have explored it frequently in their stories and characters. In this volume, Barbara and Richard Almond, both psychoanalysts, explore a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. They discover that there are fascinating parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the mechanisms observed in psychotherapeutic change.

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Foreshadowing Of Psychoanalytic Process

3 Jane Eyre: Mastering Passion and Guilt Through Mutual Influence

4 Margaret Drabble's The Needle's Eye: A Depressive Neurosis is Healed in A Spontaneous Relationship

5 The Accidental Tourist: Traumatic Loss and Pathological Grief Respond to "Accidental Therapy"

6 Silas Marner (george Eliot): Chronic Depression Resolves In a Complexly Layered Therapeutic Process

7 Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: Multiple Cures, Multiple Processes of Cure

8 Heidi (johanna Spyri): The Innocence of the Child As a Therapeutic Force

9 The Magus (john Fowles): A Literary Psychodrama

10 The House of Mirth (edith Wharton): Tragedy--The Failure of A Relationship to Transform

11 Conclusion: We Read, We Write, We Talk to Heal

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Frances Hodgson Burnett " begins on p. 19)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors ("Frances Hodgson Burnett " begins on p. 115)
by Stanley J. Kunitz. 730 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Authors Today and Yesterday

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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("Frances Hodgson Burnett " begins on p. 54)
by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. These works are briefly discussed to show how they fit within the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions.

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Acknowledgments

Notes

Henry Brooks Adams

References

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Nelson Algren

James Lane Allen

Sherwood Anderson

Harriette Simpson Arnow

William Attaway

Louis Auchincloss

Mary Austin

Edward Bellamy

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (zitkala-Sa)

Thomas Boyd

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Alice Brown

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

George Washington Cable

Abraham Cahan

Erskine Caldwell

Willa Cather

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Winston Churchill

Samuel L. Clemens

Jack Conroy

Rose Terry Cooke

James Gould Cozzens

Stephen Crane

F. Marion Crawford

Edward Dahlberg

Rebecca Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

John William de Forest

Floyd Dell

Ignatius Donnelly

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

W.E.B. Dubois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edith Maud Eaton (sui Sin Far)

Edward Eggleston

Ralph Ellison

James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Leicester Ford

Harold Frederic

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Alice French (octave Thanet)

Isaac K. Friedman

Henry B. Fuller

Zona Gale

Hamlin Garland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Michael Gold

Caroline Gordon

Robert Grant

Henry Harland (sidney Luska)

Joel Chandler Harris

Bret Harte

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John Hay

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Lafcadio Hearn

Larry Heinemann

Ernest Hemingway

Robert Herrick

J. G. Holland

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

E. W. Howe

William Dean Howells

Henry James

Sarah Orne Jewett

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James Jones

Henry F. Keenan

William Kennedy

Clarence King

Edward Smith King

Grace King

Caroline Kirkland

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Joseph Kirkland

Meyer Levin

Alfred Henry Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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Jack London

Norman Mailer

John P. Marquand

Carson Mccullers

Maria Cristina Mena (maria Cristina Chambers)

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Samuel Merwin

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S. Weir Mitchell

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Toni Morrison

Willard Motley

Mary N. Murfree

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris

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Joyce Carol Oates

John O’hara

John Milton Oskison

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Thomas Nelson Page

Will Payne

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (ward)

David Graham Phillips

Ernest Poole

William Sydney Porter (o. Henry)

Opie Read

Frederic Remington

Amelie Rives

Hubert Selby, Jr

Upton Sinclair

Francis Hopkinson Smith

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

T. S. Stribling

William Styron

Booth Tarkington

Albion W. Tourgee

Susan Warner

Robert Penn Warren

Henry Kitchell Webster

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Edith Wharton

Brand Whitlock

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Constance Fenimore Woolson

Richard Wright

Anzia Yezierska

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About the Author
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Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature: Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers (Discussion of Frances Hodgson Burnett begins on p. 121)
by Anne Lundin. 178 pgs.

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Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, & the media together create & influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. She examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, & its effect on the production of children's literature.

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Series Editor's Foreword

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Chapter One: Best Books: the Librarian

Chapter Two: Best Books: the Scholar

Chapter Three: Best Books: the Reader

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

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Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism (Chap. 9 "Romanticism vs. Empire in the Secret Garden")
by Deborah Cogan Thacker, Jean Webb. 191 pgs.

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Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time. Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between the major issues of each literary period and the formal and thematic qualities of children's texts. Close readings of selected texts follow to demonstrate the key defining characteristics of the form of writing and the literary movements. Original in its approach, this book sets children's literature within the context of literary movements and adult literature. It is essential reading for students studying writing for children. Books discussed include: *Louisa May Alcott's Little Women * Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies *Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland *Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz *Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden *P.L.Travers' Mary Poppins *E.B.White's Charlotte's Web *Philip Pullman's Clockwork .

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Section I: Romanticism

Chapter 1: Imagining the Child

Chapter 2: John Ruskin's the King of the Golden River and Romanticism

Chapter 3: Closing the Garret Door

Section II: Nineteenth-Century Literature

Chapter 4: Victorianism, Empire and the Paternal Voice

Chapter 5: Reality and Enigma in the Water-Babies

Chapter 6: Alice as Subject in the Logic of Wonderland

Section III: The Fin De Siècle

Chapter 7: Testing Boundaries

Chapter 8: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Chapter 9: Romanticism Vs. Empire in the Secret Garden

Section IV: Modernism

Chapter 10: New Voices, New Threats

Chapter 11: Connecting with Mary Poppins

Chapter 12: Spinning the Word

Chapter 13: Real or Story?

Section V: Postmodernism

Chapter 14: Playful Subversion

Chapter 15: Clockwork

Chapter 16: A Postmodern Reflection on the Genre of Fairy Tale

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