books read
Mar. 11th, 2005 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaskimmed, because it had to go back the the library and wasn't well-written enough to fascinate:
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden, by Gretchen Gerzina (2004). Did you know that FHB was born in Manchester, moved at age 15 to Knoxville TN (in 1865) with her widowed mother and 4 siblings, started supporting her family at 18 by writing stories and serialized novels for women's magazines (sort of the Harlequin romances of the Victorian set) and continued to do so for the rest of her life? That she wrote more adult novels and plays than children's books, and was most famous for Little Lord Fauntleroy in her lifetime? I hadn't thought much about FHB heself, although I;ve read many of her children's books, but had I done so I might have imagined some cottage-bound English spinster, not the married-and-divorced, jet-setting woman she actually was.
re-read: A Lady of Quality, by Georgette Heyer. Set in Bath, heroine Annis. Not a favorite, but a solid story.
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden, by Gretchen Gerzina (2004). Did you know that FHB was born in Manchester, moved at age 15 to Knoxville TN (in 1865) with her widowed mother and 4 siblings, started supporting her family at 18 by writing stories and serialized novels for women's magazines (sort of the Harlequin romances of the Victorian set) and continued to do so for the rest of her life? That she wrote more adult novels and plays than children's books, and was most famous for Little Lord Fauntleroy in her lifetime? I hadn't thought much about FHB heself, although I;ve read many of her children's books, but had I done so I might have imagined some cottage-bound English spinster, not the married-and-divorced, jet-setting woman she actually was.
re-read: A Lady of Quality, by Georgette Heyer. Set in Bath, heroine Annis. Not a favorite, but a solid story.