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In che anno è ambientato il giardino segreto?
Il giardino segreto (The Secret Garden) è un romanzo per ragazzi scritto nel 1910 dalla scrittrice anglo-americana Frances Hodgson Burnett, autrice anche de Il piccolo Lord e La piccola principessa….Il giardino segreto (Burnett)
Il giardino segreto | |
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Genere | Romanzo |
Lingua originale | inglese |
Ambientazione | India e Yorkshire, primo decennio del XX secolo |
Chi è l’autore del giardino segreto?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Il giardino segreto/Autori
Il giardino segreto venne pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1909 e fin da subito ottenne un grande successo. La sua autrice, Frances Hodgson Burnett, condivide con Mary, la protagonista del romanzo, l’esperienza di aver dovuto abbandonare la sua terra d’origine, l’Inghilterra, per andare a vivere in un luogo lontano.
Chi sono i personaggi principali del libro Il giardino segreto?
Mary Lennox
Colin CravenDickon SowerbyMartha SowerbyBen Weatherstaff
Il giardino segreto/Personaggi
Who is Frances Hodgson Burnett?
Jump to navigation Jump to search. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-born American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Who was Frances Hodgsdon’s husband?
She began submitting stories to women’s magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons — Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 — but the marriage was not a happy one.
Who was Eliza Hodgson?
She was the third of five children of Edwin Hodgson, an ironmonger from Doncaster in Yorkshire, and his wife Eliza Boond, from a well-to-do Manchester family. Hodgson owned a business in Deansgate, selling ironmongery and brass goods.
How did Frances Hodgson earn money?
Determined to earn money and help her family, Frances Hodgson first opened a private school and when it failed, started writing anew, submitting stories to various magazines. But it was not easy. Once, she had to pick up grapes on the hillside in order to earn the stamp money. In 1868, she had her first story published in Godey’s Lady’s Book.