文档介绍：The Secret Garden
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I. An introduction
II. The author
III. Background
IV. Major characters
V. Plot summary
VI. Major themes
6、Major themes
outline
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I. An introduction
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.
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II. The author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Born
Frances Eliza Hodgson 24 November 1849 England
Died
29 October 1924 (aged 74) United States
Children
She had two boys.
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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author.
She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy 《方特勒罗伊小爵爷》(published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
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Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor.
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III. The background
The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, ., Burnett then began to write novels. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there where she wrote The Secret Garden.
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From the mid-1890s she lived in England at Great Maytham Hall—which had a large garden where she indulged her love for fl