![]() ![]() ![]() I love it, it’s why I started this blog, and to find out that it wasn’t just my little class of four students who appreciated the importance of women’s contribution to writing…well let’s just say I may have made a noise more commonly associated with the fans of Harry Styles!Īnyway, to pretty much sum up the way to get me to buy a book all you have to do is tell me it’s by an underappreciated female author and before you’ve even finished speaking I will have probably bought the book. My main focus at University was Eighteenth Century women’s writing. You’ll have to allow me this little nerd moment, you see I have a real soft spot of ‘forgotten authors- mostly women’. So when I saw her name amongst the usual bunch of classic authors I was curious and when I found out that the company that publishes her ( Persephone Classics) specialises in ‘Forgotten Twentieth Century authors- mostly women’ I actually got a little bit excited. ![]() What I have come to realise recently, however, is that books like “The Secret Garden” were just a side-line to her real career as an adult author- in fact, in her own lifetime it was “The Making of a Marchioness” that she was most famous for. ![]() Growing up I loved “A Little Princess” and “The Secret Garden” only a little less than I loved the film versions! But despite that I gave little thought to their author, and certainly assumed that she just wrote for children. Hands up if you thought Frances Hodgson-Burnett only wrote for children? I know I did until I came across this book recently. ![]()
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