Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children’s novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885-October 1886, then as a book by Scribner’s in 1886. The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends, and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. V. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work.

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format beginning in 1910 and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett’s most popular novels and is considered a classic of English Children’s Literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.

     Marketing to both adult and juvenile audiences may have effected its early reception, since the book was not as celebrated as Burnett’s previous works during her lifetime. The Secret Garden paled in comparison to the popularity of Burnett’s other works for a long period. Tracing the book’s revival from almost complete eclipse at the time of Burnett’s death in 1924, Anne H. Lundin noted the author’s obituary notices mainly remarked on Little Lord Fauntleroy and passed over The Secret Garden in silence.