The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Novels of Frances Hodgson BurnettAlthough she is remembered today mainly as a writer of childrens books, Frances Hodgson Burnett was a widely published novelist. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and postWorld War I novels. They were popular subjects in the early years of cinema. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads Burnetts novels in the context of

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from the sixteenth century to the present day

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