Beyond The Secret Garden

Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780715654194

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Beyond the Secret Garden by Ann Thwaite Pdf

The definitive and revealing biography of the author of The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s favourite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she emigrated with her family to Tennessee because of the financial problems caused by the cotton famine. From a young age she published her stories to help the family make ends meet. Only after she married did she publish Little Lord Fauntleroy that shot her into literary stardom. On the surface, Frances’ life was extremely successful: hosting regular literary salons in her home and travelling frequently between properties in the UK and America. But behind the colourful personal and social life, she was a complex and contradictory character. She lost both parents by her twenty-first birthday, Henry James called her "the most heavenly of women" although avoided her; prominent people admired her and there were many friendships as well as an ill-advised marriage to a much younger man that ended in heartache. Her success was punctuated by periods of depression, in one instance brought on by the tragic loss of her eldest son to consumption. Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but balanced and eye-opening biography of the woman who has enchanted numerous generations of children.

Author : Angelica Shirley Carpenter,Jean Shirley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822549050

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Frances Hodgson Burnett by Angelica Shirley Carpenter,Jean Shirley Pdf

A biography of the author of many popular novels and plays for both adults and children, including the well-known "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Secret Garden."

Author : Hodgson B.F.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9785521055067

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The Secret Garden by Hodgson B.F. Pdf

«Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...

Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0752441388

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Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite Pdf

Biography about the novelist who wrote one of the best-loved childrens books, "The Secret Garden"

Author : Gretchen Gerzina
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813533821

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Frances Hodgson Burnett by Gretchen Gerzina Pdf

Hugely successful in her own time for adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) would be astounded to find out she is remembered for a handful of books for children, but most of all for the enormously popular Secret Garden. This fascinating biography-the first to have the full cooperation of Burnett's descendants and relatives-examines her life with lively intelligence, sensitivity, and fascinating new, never-before-published material. Burnett's life was full of those reversals of fortune that mark her work. Following modest beginnings in mid-Victorian Manchester, she arrived in post-Civil War Tennessee at the age of fifteen with her widowed mother and two sisters. Burnett was the breadwinner of the family from the age of seventeen, eventually publishing a total of fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. She made and spent a fortune in her lifetime, was generous and profligate, yet anxious about money and obsessively hardworking. Constantly restless and inventive, Burnett's personal life was as complex as her professional one. Her first marriage to a southern doctor disintegrated as a result of her notorious flirtations and a scandalous affair, and her subsequent marriage to an English doctor turned actor suffered a similar fate. She understood the intensity and loneliness of the thoughtful child, but was herself a largely absent mother of two sons-overwhelmed by guilt when tragedy struck one of them; the other one never got over being the model for Little Lord Fauntleroy. A woman of contrasts and paradoxes, this quintessentially British writer was equally at home in the United States, which honored her with a memorial in Central Park. Frances Hodgson Burnett reinvented for herself and for generations to come in both countries the magic and the mystery of the childhood she never had.

Author : Karen Sands-O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137579041

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Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015 by Karen Sands-O'Connor Pdf

This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.

Author : Ivy Noelle Weir
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316459686

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The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir Pdf

The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, this full-color graphic novel moves Mary Lennox to a New York City brownstone, where she and her very first group of friends restore an abandoned rooftop garden...and her uncle's heart. Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and "friends." When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret...her cousin who suffers from anxiety. With the help of her new friends, Colin and Dickon, Mary works to restore the garden to its former glory while also learning to grieve, build real friendships, and grow. This title will be simultaneously available in paperback.

Author : Cecilia Aragon,Katie Davis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262355636

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Writers in the Secret Garden by Cecilia Aragon,Katie Davis Pdf

An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities. Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers—primarily young people in their teens and twenties—have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176 million reviews to a single online site, Fanfiction.net. In this book, Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis provide an in-depth examination of fanfiction writers and fanfiction repositories, finding that these sites are not shallow agglomerations and regurgitations of pop culture but rather online spaces for sophisticated and informal learning. Through their participation in online fanfiction communities, young people find ways to support and learn from one another. Aragon and Davis term this novel system of interactive advice and instruction distributed mentoring, and describe its seven attributes, each of which is supported by an aspect of networked technologies: aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. Employing an innovative combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, they provide an in-depth ethnography, reporting on a nine-month study of three fanfiction sites, and offer a quantitative analysis of lexical diversity in the 61.5 billion words on the Fanfiction.net site. Going beyond fandom, Aragon and Davis consider how distributed mentoring could improve not only other online learning platforms but also formal writing instruction in schools.

Author : Nancy Friday
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780795335396

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My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “groundbreaking” work on women’s sexual fantasies (Publishers Weekly). First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation—from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women’s inner sexual fantasy lives. In its time, this book shattered taboos and opened up a conversation about the landscape of feminine desire in a way that was unprecedented. Today, My Secret Garden remains one of the most iconic works of feminist literature of our time—and is still relevant to millions of women throughout the world. “The author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women’s sexuality.” —The New York Times

Author : Susan Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 078380279X

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Return to the Secret Garden by Susan Moody Pdf

"The author takes Mary, Colin and Dickon into adult life, and a world that encompasses the battlefields of France, the bright lights of London in the Twenties, and India under the Raj, but which always comes back to their beloved Yorkshire moors"--Cover.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788008588

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The Secret Garden by Geraldine McCaughrean Pdf

Author : Jackie C. Horne,Joe Sutliff Sanders
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810881884

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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden by Jackie C. Horne,Joe Sutliff Sanders Pdf

Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their writing, and situate the novel in historical and theoretical contexts. These essays push beyond the themes that have tended to occupy the majority of academic scholars who have written about The Secret Garden to date. In doing so, they approach the text from theoretical perspectives that allow new light to illuminate old debates. Scholars and students of children's literature, women's literature, transcontinental literature, and the Victorian/Edwardian period will find in this collection refreshing new looks at a children's classic.

Author : Celia Lottridge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554981908

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Home is Beyond the Mountains by Celia Lottridge Pdf

Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.

Author : Jeffrey Boakye,Darren Chetty
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526308150

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What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? and Other Big Questions by Jeffrey Boakye,Darren Chetty Pdf

Author : Frances Burnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781425051655

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The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett Pdf

This novel is about a secret garden which changes the life of three children forever. It is a moving, magical account of the mysteries of childhood, and how simple things in life can bring so much joy to people. Mary, Collin and Dickens revive a mysterious dead garden and in-return get a lot more than they bargained for....