ENG 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Doxology, Gothic Fiction
27 Sep 2016
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Minor o o o o o o o. Ironic treatment of the novel"s own values (self-satire) Born and raised in england, but moved to the united states in 1865. Secret garden (1911) is one of her later novels. She was more famous in her lifetime for little. Lord fauntleroy (1882) and a little princess (1905) Secret garden had the rare distinction of being a work for children published (serially) in a non-children"s magazine in the u. s. After learning of an unauthorized stage adaption of little lord fauntleroy, burnett created her own version and sued, setting a precedent that made it necessary for playwrights to seek permission from authors to adapt stage versions of written works. Burnett"s experience as an angelo-american allowed her to weight the merits of british and. American values against each other in her fiction. Although she didn"t identify within a particular sect, burnett"s religious views borrowed from the.
